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[jellomando]

My first high school lesson (stolen from AlexMokpo) was an introduction lesson. I know this probably seems like a dumb lesson to post, but I'm doing it for sake of completion.

Introductions:

• Native Speaker begins his introduction while an attendance sheet is passed around the students. 10 minutes.
• Students complete individual introduction sheets. 10 minutes.
• Students find a partner and swap introduction papers and introduce each other. 15 minutes.
• With remaining time play Typhoon with Native Speaker.  10 minutes.

Some Notes:

• Grade 2 students are capable of completing their introduction in the 10 minute time allotment; Grade 1 on the other hands will be slower.
• Some classes were confused about the English Name.  Should they put their English Name or the Romanization of their Korean Name?  I always steered them towards the Romanization just for personal reasons.
• As a part of your introduction, make it clear that students are responsible for their required materials; high school students will slack off during this class, so it's important to start laying down the rules.
• The students loved pictures of non-Korea things; any mundane hometown thing becomes magical with a picture or two.  Family and High School life are good examples of this.
• Passing around the attendance sheet is tricky.  If the students are in groups they will fill out their information as a group; this is distracting, especially when they discover the English Name slot.  You can save it for the end of class, but the students will want to run off and leave the entire slot blank.

I suspect that I'll have to hand in my lessons eventually so I've started writing them up formally using a lesson plan template in the word document.  I also use powerpoint to highlight the talking points.  I won't clutter up this post up any more; more information about my lesson formats can be found here: http://jellomando.blogspot.com/2007/07/lesson-plans.html

[WebAdmin]

I really like the powerpoint for this, had I seen this earlier I would have used it to modify my own intro.  You're right about photos, they go nuts regardless of what it is--if it's not Korean.  Powerpoints make you look very organized, but I find they take less effort than tediously writting on the board for each class.

I had my last lesson for the middle school today.  I feel... ummm, like someone who's just come out of a boxing match, bloodied but victorious!  (The devil must be a spoilled little Korean girl).  Don't get me wrong though, I have some really awesome students here as well.

p.s. Nice blog

[jellomando]

I've started a new term so I've had a chance to revist this lesson; I'm adding an introduction worksheet since my kids never have 'extra' paper for my class.