Author Topic: After School Class- Curriculum/Schedule (Read 6400 times)

clairegaunt · « **on:** September 07, 2010, 11:58:42 AM »

Hi everyone, I just need some teaching advice, please. I've started at an elementary school and I'm taking years 4 and 6 with two different co-teachers. I also have a speaking class with the same fourth graders. I haven't been told it's a speaking class, I just assume it is! I have been lucky enough to take over from someone who is good at their job, but it means that I'm not really being checked on much. I have, however, been asked for a curriculum and I'm not really sure if it's going in the right direction. Could someone please take a look at what I have already and let me know if it's getting there? What should I add or change about it so when I show my bosses they don't think I'm a complete idiot? (I'm not, thankfully, but I have never taught before). Note: I've already planned and taught the first lesson and while there were certainly mishaps, everything went okay for the most part).
Also, as you can see, I'm having trouble finishing it... Can anyone help? Please?

MONTH 1- Describing physical appearances and parts of the body.
Week one- body parts
Week two- emotions
Week three- Describing what body parts look like
Week four- Clothing

MONTH 2- The house. Students learn the names of the parts of a house, also learn some simple prepositions. Ongoing project- students design their dream house.
Week one- Parts of a house/building
Week two- Rooms in the house
Week three- Objects in the house
Week four- Putting it all together, describing the whole house/building

MONTH 3- Animals and pets
Week one- animal colours and shapes
Week two- Do you have any pets?
Week three- Farm animals
Week four- The zoo

MONTH 4-Food
Week one- Names of different foods, students learn how to ask each other what they like
Week two- describing food, how it feels, tastes etc
Week three- breakfast, lunch and dinner
Week four- How to order food in a restaurant

MONTH 5- Where are you from?
Week one-

MONTH6- Telling someone your hobbies and interests.

pickle · « **Reply #1 on:** September 07, 2010, 12:54:51 PM »

Why don't you write your curriculum to follow along with the textbook? If you find the students are low-level, you can make sure they learn the material they're responsible for, but it they are high-level you can teach them in more depth. Grade 4 grammar points are very simple, so if you have the extra time it would mean you can help them to use the phrases in longer dialogs, with more advanced vocabulary, or in more situations. Or even teach a completely new (but related) grammar point.

I was asked to write a curriculum for the English Club, and I was at a loss for what to do (not knowing what the kids knew... I hadn't even met them yet at that point!) and it ended up looking a lot like yours. I make sets of three lessons that kind of went together on usual kinds of topics. But after I started teaching, I realized that many of my students knew what I was trying to teach anyway, but the curriculum started to feel like it lacked aim. I will have to completely re-write this term's curriculum because it hasn't been working for me. If you base your curriculum on the textbook (or even a textbook you buy) it gives you a good baseline. You can always choose to change the focus if it's not quite right for you.

Hope this helps!

complex303 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 07, 2010, 01:26:09 PM »

Your curriculum looks pretty good. Maybe it'll work for you. But in my 4th grade English club (speaking class), the students are more proactive about doing things they like to do. So this semester I let them make the schedule. Here it is:

26 Aug - English test (this is a level test to see if they know how to read and write.)
2 Sep - Build a schedule, go over rules, introductions
8 Sep - Treasure Hunt
16 Sep - NO MEETING! School Sports Day
23 Sep - NO MEETING! Chuseok Holiday
30 Sep - Speed game, pictionary, word games
7 Oct - Treasure Hunt
14 Oct - Sports Day - Baseball, foot baseball, soccer
21 Oct - NO MEETING! Field trip
28 Oct - Treasure Hunt
4 Nov - Technology Day - Make a video, English computer games
11 Nov - Food Day - Pepero, pizza, popcorn
18 Nov - Mafia game/ Create an Annoying Orange game/play
25 Nov - Treasure Hunt
2 Dec - Running Games - Red light, green light
9 Dec - Sports Day 2 - ...
16 Dec - Christmas Party
23 Dec - Last day of school. Probably no English Club meeting.

As you can see they love treasure hunts...and I've got a nice bunch of lively boys. I've attached the level test I used. Most 4th graders don't bother to answer the last few questions. Also, I've attached some materials I use for the treasure hunts.

Leticia · « **Reply #3 on:** March 28, 2011, 11:30:46 AM »

I just finished creating a syllabus for the next 60 class periods (including summer and winter camps) for the year. Some of the projects are ideas taken from waygook. As I actually complete each project with the classes, I will post the appropriate powerpoints to the website for everyone to use. I hope the list helps!!!

Lariel2 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 27, 2012, 09:30:59 AM »

I just created a simple schedule of my after school classes this new semester. There is one schedule for grade 3/4 and one for Grade 5/6. It is not detailed, but it may help in terms of thinking of ideas for your after school class. Hope it is useful for someone ^^

Author Topic: After School Class- Curriculum/Schedule (Read 6400 times)

clairegaunt

After School Class- Curriculum/Schedule

pickle

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complex303

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Leticia

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Lariel2

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