Monday, October 27, 2008
Assigned Reading Reflection (Lesson Planning/Oct.27/Week10)
I wish I would have known such valuable information about curriculum design before this week. It is clearly explained how a curriculum should be designed through the entire chapter. Once with a group of students we were going to have 15 days-long trip to Spain within the framework of European Union Education Program Leonardo Da Vinci. To help this group survive in the sense of communication we were supposed to develop a curriculum. We sat down on the table and start to think about what we should do. Considering the goal of the program and the needs of the group we worked hard and developed a good curriculum based upon the basic needs during the trip. We decided to teach English for everyday communication based on communication approach. We tried to pretend all those situations which our students were going to face during the trip and we concentrate on those specific situations. Such as asking someone something or somewhere, introducing, apologizing, thanking etc. the learner group was so motivated and they were so willing that the classes were really good. At the end of the program we were in Spain with our perfect English! But there was a problem no one were able to speak English but Spanish!
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I'm not sure I understand why you chose English rather than Spanish for Spain. Alternatively, perhaps you should have chosen an English-speaking country like the United Kingdom instead! But thanks for sharing about your curriculum designing experience.
I always think of curriculum design as being like a tree or pyramid--course title: objectives/goals: tasks: asessment. It makes more sense when I write it down on paper. I enjoy curriculum designing. As long as it offers flexability. I worked with a scripted curriculum last year, and although it was a good took for me as a novice teacher, it didn't lend itself to much flexability based on my students' needs.
I think your example was funny...English for Spain. We get so focused on the details sometimes we forget the big picture.
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