I believe that the most important elements of a good course plan include:
1.A good assessment to discover who the students are, what they want to learn, preferred learning formats... Their CLB levels need to be assessed.
2. Planning a theme based on what students' needs are. My students will be here for the summer, so they want to focus on speaking skills within a context of various field trips. I planned on teaching them about Canadian themes that were followed up with field trips.
3. outcomes that fit into the theme
4.activities that are interesting and ones that flow together to build on prior knowledge
5. group/pair and individual work
6. work that makes my students talk rather than me doing all the speaking
7.grammar, vocabulary, cultural learning, pronunciation work, and different language skills
8. continual assessment
9. variety with routine
I hadn't planned a course using a theme approach before, so I found it quite challenging. It makes a lot more sense to do it that way, it just takes a lot of planning to make it all come together. I had to plan my course around field trips, so it wasn't an ideal way to write a course. I would have rather planned the course and created field trips to reinforce the lessons.
I found it interesting that my journal and conversation topics for the day could be interchanged.
I would have liked to create a settlement issues course, but I actually have to create the summer program course, so it worked out.
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