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showeropera
showeropera
PCV-MOE Phrae Curriculum Project
May 30 2008, 4:54 AM EDT | Post edited: May 30 2008, 4:54 AM EDT
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. Do you find this valuable?    
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christianwagner
1. RE: PCV-MOE Phrae Curriculum Project
Mar 1 2009, 10:04 PM EST | Post edited: Mar 1 2009, 10:04 PM EST
hey, look what happens when you google yourself...chris from 113...i would say right on with the critiques, but a quick note with the vocabulary, i tried to group those thematically...and we were able to get the Thai National Curriculum (now this was 2004) and we wrote the curriculum around that...we also had the Phrae teachers and education supervisors review it to make sure, so it should be aligned-- but absolutely, a work in progress, we finished it a couple months before COS, and extended a bit to work with it with my teachers in Phrae-- cool to see it somewhere still being used! Do you find this valuable?    

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