The Internet Ramblings of the QiRanger

Selemat Pagi!

This weekend was one filled with great relaxation. I woke up Saturday morning and finished working on a new lesson plan. Now normally I try to really hammer out lesson pans in an orderly fashion, but this was a special case.

You see, I’ve been teaching a class for nearly three months, and while the text book is a great tool, the curriculum for the class, is well, for lack of a better word, crap. So I approached the management of the school and asked them if I could re-write the curriculum for a September 1 start date, since I was continuing to teach the class.

I received the approval, but also notice, that I wasn’t going to teach the class anymore. This necessitated me writing a months worth of lessons in about 2 hours. Now to some, this may seem like a rush job, but not really. Being intimately familiar with the materials and having flushed out the skeleton lesson plan for each story, I was simply able to drop in the associated page numbers and develop the vocabulary guides. Even the latter was easy, since two of the story exercises concentrate on vocabulary.

I’m actually quite pleased with the results of the new curriculum. I hope it aids in student comprehension and the other teachers are pleased with it as well.