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Teaching English
Whether you are a volunteer in the TCCO (Teacher Collaboration and Community Outreach) project or just someone who got roped into teaching English on the side, please share and "steal" ideas from here to help get the job done easier and more creatively.
Web Sites: Got a favorite place or places you like to go for ideas, creations or what-have-yous? Put it in here. Please add a brief description of the site.
Speak English is a quarterly publication that's all about English! Here you can find games and ideas for English camps and teaching in the classroom. You will also find useful tidbits like GRE practice words.
worksheets/vocabulary guides arranged by topic to introduce different units to Thai learners (especially
adults).
Keywords: English education, ESL (English as a Second Language), TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), lesson plans
Web Sites: Got a favorite place or places you like to go for ideas, creations or what-have-yous? Put it in here. Please add a brief description of the site.
Speak English is a quarterly publication that's all about English! Here you can find games and ideas for English camps and teaching in the classroom. You will also find useful tidbits like GRE practice words.
E-Learning English
The Internet is full of tools for learning English, and Thai schools are increasingly gaining Internet Access. Go to E-Learning English for recommended sites.Great English Teachers
Check out people and organizations who do a great job teaching English. Pick their brains. Invite them to come help.
Co-Teaching
Figuring out the dynamics of working side-by-side with a counterpart in the classroom can be challenging for both Thais and Peace Corps Volunteers. Check out this page to share ideas about different approaches to co-teaching.
Classroom Action Research - Consider doing a research project with your co-teacher. It could earn your co-teacher a promotion, and at the very least it will likely improve teaching methods.
Textbooks
Read and share reviews on English textbooks that are available in Thailand. Browse by level: Pratom Books, Matayom Books.
Curriculum Project
Several years ago, a volunteer in group 113 translated the official National English Curriculum for Prathom 1 through 6. He also created units, lesson plans, and tests in an attempt to follow the national curriculum. You may have been exposed to this resource as the PCV-MOE curriculum, or the Phrae Curriculum project. The lesson plans have a lot of good activities in them, but the progression of the grammar being taught isn't always logical. Sometimes the structures are too difficult for Prathom students. For more discussion of the pros and cons of the Phrae Curriculum Project, see the Phrae curriculum discussion.
The full thing is available on Sharepoint. If you ask nicely enough, maybe a Peace Corps staff member will be kind enough to burn you a CD of all of the files.
Fun Activities
Want to know how to keep those kids (or adults) engaged without them really knowing that they're learning?
Free English Language Books
Want to bolster the English-language library at your school or in your community? These organizations will give you free books!
Free online teaching materials: download and print flashcards, games, lesson plans, and everything else you need. MES ENGLISH is a website that provides easy to find materials that pose no copyright infringements or anything else like that. For free stickers, certificates, handouts, phonics cards, ESL games, it's all there, and printable! See for yourself at www.mes-english.com
The Sounds of Language
By understanding more about Phonetics and Phonics, you'll have a better set of tools for helping students understand and produce spoken English.
ESL Lesson Ideas
Created in a similar fashion to Thai language lessons from PST here is a link to someworksheets/vocabulary guides arranged by topic to introduce different units to Thai learners (especially
adults).
Lesson Plans
- Share your favorite lesson plans
- Here are some flash cards made by Andrea LeJeune. Feel free to add some of your own to the collection.
Templates
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- Activities (Create me! Click add new page on right, make it generic, and click "Save as Template")
Keywords: English education, ESL (English as a Second Language), TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), lesson plans
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This thread is meant to discuss the positives and negatives of the Phrae Curriculum Project started by Chris Wagner 113.
My first semester I tried using the Phrae curriculum and its lesson plans. I found that they have some good activity ideas, but the grammar and vocabulary does NOT carefully build upon itself. This confused my students. Also, it's a work in progress, so a few of the lessons are a little incomplete. By my second semester, my co-teacher and I abandoned the Phrae curriculum and went back to her old textbook. Now in my third semester, we've changed to a better textbook and are using that as a backbone to our curriculum. NOTE: Most textbooks sold in Thailand at least claim to be based on the National Curriculum, so if you find a textbook that you like, you might want to reverse-engineer your own curriculum from it instead of basing your curriculum on the Phrae curriculum. My suggestion is to get a copy of the Phrae lesson plans so you can get ideas for units/themes and individual activities, but go shopping for a good textbook with your co-teacher to serve as a curriculum crutch. Search for 'textbooks' on wiki for suggestions.
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