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[Forever]

I am going to commence a Public Elementary school job this year

and am offering to pay you CASH for any teacher who has done a year or two at a Public Elementary school teaching grades 3~6 or 1~6 and has kept all their lesson plans and is willing to sell their lesson plans...

If you have ALL your lesson plans for one year and am willing to make some cash selling them to me (so I can make a few changes to them and use them) p.m. me.

[blade]

Save your money and just write your own lesson plans. It's really not that difficult. All I've ever needed was a general outline of your lesson plan. i.e. start, introduction,development and lesson review.
If you materials then go to www.mediafire.com enter the user name [email protected]
Password is Kimchi. For different grades just change number i.e. 3 for third grade, 4 for fourth grade etc, etc.

[air76]

It is often more difficult to modify or understand someone else's lesson plan than to just make your own....not to mention that your school may be using a particular book or specific curriculum that would render the other lesson plans useless.

If you're new to teaching, studying up on classroom management will help you a whole lot more than lesson plans, especially if you're teaching at a public school.

[Murakano]

some people are so damn lazy. It`s not that difficult to come up with a lesson plan...... ....in public school you`re repeating the same lesson over and over again for different classes for a week or more (sometimes longer) before you commence on a new lesson. Plenty of time to come up with your own stuff rather than sponge of other people`s work.

As the above poster eluded to, not all PS use the same curriculum either.

[lifeinkorea]

You're going to pay someone to tell you to say "I like apples, apples, apples" to kids?

Ok, here's a start:

1. Quiet kids down
2. Say "I like oranges, oranges, oranges", have them repeat
3. Quiet kids down again
4. Say "I like grapes, grapes, grapes", have them repeat.
5. Quiet kids down again
6. etc... etc... etc.., then review

That will be 15,000 won please. Next lesson, counting. It will be more involved, so I want 20,000

(To be honest, pictures are a big part of kids' classes, not so much the lesson plan. Even if you write up your own lessons, the schools often want you to follow a set curriculum which means they won't even consider what you want to teach. You are just a white person to make parents happy they have a foreigner.)

[brento1138]

"I like apples..."

Yikes. I don't think I wanna teach elementary again! Ever!

[clyde]

Here is a good one titled: Taking responsibility for yourself.
1. Warm up exercise focusing on vocab. related to not taking the easy way out
2. Game: object of which is to perform an assigned task without copying or stealing the work of others.
3. Homework: Research assignment about the ill effects of plagiarism.

Get the picture.

[Forever]

[brento1138]

Come on people, capitalism at work here!

[Stalin84]

There are plenty of lesson plans for free online.

Using other people's lesson plans can be a majorly bad idea. Everyone has their own unique teaching style. I've seen lesson plans online before that everyone swore by that I couldn't imagine teaching in a million years (like those lesson plans that are just a PPT slideshow with 100 pictures on it from Google or the ones that start off like, "cut forty sections of paper and laminate them, put a different verb on each one and tape them around the classroom under a picture of celebrity which you can get out of a magazine" - FFFFF THAT!)

[Englishee]

this thread is the exact reason many people hate Daves. This dude posted in a BST FORUM not an ADVICE Forum!

He didn't ask for advice, or to be mocked, he asked for your lesson plans!!

If you don't want to sell him anything, for the love of God, SHUT UP and move on.

SUGGESTION TO THE MODS: disable comments from everyone other than the OP in the BST...

[oskinny1]

[air76]

I don't think that there is anything wrong with buying lesson plans....there are loads of books that you can purchase that are just that, loads of lesson plans bound together so that you can make photocopies and teach. I just think that he'd be better off buying these types of professional materials, or signing up for online services that provide the same thing, than paying a teacher for a jumbled up folder of files that may not make any sense to him. Especially for elementary level kids there are thousands of lesson plans available online for free.

Unfortunately, for teaching at most elementary schools the post that described repeating "I like apples" for 40 minutes is frighteningly accurate.

If you're serious about paying to make this job easier (which I think is a good investment) then buy Jeremy Harmer's "How to Teach English"...most of the theories relate to classrooms where the goal of the class isn't to learn 4 words, but I think it's the best book for giving you a basic overview of how to teach ESL, especially if you don't want to pay for a CELTA course (which I would highly recommend if you plan on doing this job for more than a year or two.)

I disagree with the poster who said that one shouldn't offer advice in the Buy/Sell/Trade forum...first off, the advice can be duly ignored, but if someone is looking to buy something that they may not need, or is selling something at a price lower than what they could get or too high so that they won't be able to offload it, what's the problem with helping them out?

[joeteacher]

[abiandjamesinsk]

At the end of the day, if any of the self righteous people screaming plagiarism and theft have so much as used a lesson plan from a textbook that they have bought in a bookstore, or photocopied a page from their school textbooks, then by their own standards they are far more in infringement of the law than the OP they are vilifying. When you buy something like a book, a photo, a piece of writing, a movie or whatever, you purchase a rights and usage copyright. This copyright tells you what you can and cannot use the material for (check the front of any book or movie and it will have a standard copyright notice saying you cannot reproduce it by any means, play it in public, use in a classroom etc...), and many text books demand that you buy one per child in each class it is used in. When this guy buys his material, he is buying the copyright from the original author (yeah right) to use it as he see fit, as that is his stated purpose.

Legally, he should get the author to sign a piece of paper saying this, but at the end of the day, this is nothing more than some ideas, that, lets face it, have probably come from a hundred differently copyrighted sources in the first place. I do not know one teacher (and I use that term in its loosest possible terms) who has completed anything in this country without the help of some resource or other. When you also take into account that the ESL resource websites in operation in Korea would have copyright lawyers wetting their pants in anticipation in the USA and UK through the amount of copyright infringement, this seems like an massive amount of hipocracy. So if you do insists on taring people with a brush, I would make sure you have never used one non original idea in your class room or even shown a Hollywood movie, a TV show or even a copyrighted and therefore stolen clip from You Tube, before you make sweeping statements about other individuals

Anyone got any copyright free, totally independently thought up classroom games for sale?