After School Classes - Curricula

[roosh]

Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how to come up with a curriculum for after school classes - for all levels of  Elementary school?

I'd like to try and come up with a curriculum that is coherent, with some kind of a logical progression, or, failing that, a curriculum for the year.

I don't really know where to start. I've had a look at some of the stuff on here, but there doesn't appear to be a coherent curriculum for after school classes, rather some random topics; which, don't get me wrong, have been very very helpful; but I think that the students would benefit greatly if there was a well thought out curriculum, that builds on itself incremently - to a degree.


Any suggestions or directions would be greatly appreciated (by me and my students)

[jimiready]

hey, my advice would be to go browse some YL EFL books in a good bookstore(or website) and see what their contents pages are like and build a curriculum around that. if the book has a teacher's book/guide then thats even better as it will prob. break down the objectives and language points in more detail for you.
Once you have the basic outline, then there is a heap of stuff on waygook that you can start mining.

anyway, thats what ive done.
for higher grades ive also used the contents of their own english books for the year to help guide my plan for the year.

hope it helps
j

[bobrocket]

I'm using the All Aboard series at the moment, we use students the book for three months, 3 times a week and they do the workbook at home.
It's a bit of a fast paced class so spreading the book over a longer period wouldn't be hard.
I just supplement the books with other material depending on the class abilities.

I've uploaded All Aboard 4, 5 and 6 here.
http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,26753.0.html

Another book is the catch series, I don't have the sample to upload yet but coming.

[roosh]

I'm using the All Aboard series at the moment, we use students the book for three months, 3 times a week and they do the workbook at home.
It's a bit of a fast paced class so spreading the book over a longer period wouldn't be hard.
I just supplement the books with other material depending on the class abilities.

I've uploaded All Aboard 4, 5 and 6 here.
http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,26753.0.html

Another book is the catch series, I don't have the sample to upload yet but coming.

thanks for that bob

[vw08]

I've used the Family and Friends series and the Longman Cornerstone series in the past for after school classes and have found both to be great series.   As far as I know, they are available at many of the teacher-centric book stores.

The other option, if you are unable to have the students all have a copy of the book, is to pick a series and use it as your template for planning.  Utilize the progression of concepts and build your own activities.  That way the concepts you are teaching are in a logical order, but you are not tied down to the activities in the book.  This was the situation I was in for camp this year, more out of necessity than my choice, and it worked well.  It is a bit more work on the planning end, but you have more control over what you teach than if you strictly adhere to a book.

[TheWB18]

For younger kids, MES English has a full curriculum built around vocabulary sets and simple, important phrases.  Planning to use it, with supplemental stuff, for my after school class of 1-3 grade, and maybe even for my regular 1st and 2nd grade classes.

[casedog15]

For advanced students, I used Time For Kids Magazine.  It's a montly magazine and there are plenty of fun articles to plan lessons around.  It's great to use for discussions and really gets the students interested in learning about subjects they care about.  I learned a lot from the articles myself!