I have a Bachelors in music and teaching experience in the performing arts (music, dance, drama). My only experience teaching academics has been tutoring friends. Also I've taken an online certificate course, which was helpful, but not completely relevant.
Here is a simple version of my lesson plan for the classes today.
-I started off my class with introducing myself, drawing a map of the US and letting them guess what part I was from, then letting them ask questions. I tried to start off each class very positive and energetic.
-Then I set down rules and consequences.
-Next I tried doing a name game, to help me learn their names, where they all stood in a circle and put a movement to their name. This failed pretty badly, though I had thought they would enjoy getting up and moving around. So I sat the classes it didn't work with back down and moved on.
-After that I tried to start assessing their level with either a competition game like Boggle where they write down vocab as a group, each group reads out their answers, and the group with the most wins,
or
having them discuss as a group "What do you like to do?" then write down the answers and tell the class. Both of these didnt' get any interest.
by this time the classes were done or very close to done.
I had 4 classes; 2 were very talkative/disruptive and I couldn't get them to stop for more than 10 seconds, 1 was almost catatonic, and the last one went well. I did very little different between the classes. I will have 17 different classes of unknown levels of skil, about half 1st grade and half 2nd grade, so I'm guessing I won't have to worry about making too many lesson plans
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I would like to ask for any suggestions that anyone has on how I can change my lesson plan to have anything closer to a modicum of success
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Also I would greatly appreciate it if anyone has any ideas on what I can say/ask my Korean "co-teachers" to get the information for where their students are in their learning, what do they want me to teach, or get anything other than "you'll figure it out, go teach english".
I have ideas of what I can do/change, but after my first failure I dont'know if anything will work and would like to ask other more experienced teachers.
Thank you for reading
oh ya, I've been searching the forums and will continue, but I don't have much cash right now and can't stay at the net cafe's long
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