Administrator on March 16th, 2010

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methodology on March 16th, 2010

Usually when I teach my students, I don’t have lesson planning written. But I have lesson planning for each class in my mind. Even now I don’t need to have lesson planning written. Actually I used to have lesson planning but that lesson planning were not helpful to me. it’s just formative things for me.  [...]

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Class: S2
Name: Andy 
Whenever I prepare lesson plans, I think of the formalities of it, distribution of class time and steps of developing a class, such as Introduction (about 5 min.), Development ( about 35-40 min.) and Conclusion ( 5-10 min.) In my opinon, these things are helpful in designing a class and teaching students. That [...]

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methodology on March 16th, 2010

Q1. How much control do you have over lesson planning and curriculum development in your school?
- As a matter of fact, I rarely if ever do.
 
Q2. How does that influence your feelings about your job?
- It’s good.

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methodology on March 15th, 2010

 
When I plan my lesson, I usually read teahers’ guide first.
With the help of teachers’ guide, I recognize  the most important  part of the lesson.  After choosing what to teach, I make some activities based on the key expressions.
Making lesson plan is not so stressful, but sometimes I have some trouble in finding [...]

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methodology on March 15th, 2010

When I am planning out what to teach, I refer to the teacher’s guidebook first. Because, in Korea, there is National Curriculum and teachers should teach according to that standard. However, if I can accomplish the object of the lesson, I can choose any activities that I want. Sometimes, the activities that presented in the [...]

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methodology on March 15th, 2010

Hello. I’m Justin. I hope you have a good TEE experience in SEEC.

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methodology on March 15th, 2010

When I plan lesson and curriculum development, I have strong control from govorment.  I am taught that I should follow the national curriculum and achieve the national goal. If I do something not related to national curriculum, it would be ilicit. I may go to the jail.  *^^*
In some way there are too many [...]

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methodology on March 15th, 2010

As everyone knows, in korea we have national curriculum and textbook. So, we have raletively small amount of free over lesson planning.
But, within the national curriculum I suppose I am free to what I do in class. In addition, I think the national curriculum could be a guide for my lesson. And I feel [...]

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Administrator on December 8th, 2009

The ACT is a standardized test for high school achievement and college admissions in the United States produced by ACT, Inc. It was first administered in fall 1959 by Everett Franklin Lindquist as a competitor to the College Board’s Scholastic Aptitude Test, now the SAT Reasoning Test. Some students who perform poorly on the SAT [...]

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Administrator on December 2nd, 2009

Children learn like a computer. They soak in all kinds of information. One reason for this is — they are always asking Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?

 
This is a useful method to gain understanding which I remind my teenage students about in the US.

 
Even if you think you know [...]

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Administrator on November 2nd, 2009

The first part of an E2 Classroom English Class

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