Moving ahead on curriculum

The Past Week: 01.20.08 – 01.26.08

*As I gear up for the Retail Training course which is to begin on the 4th of February, I have two major goals: curriculum development and marketing. Prior to this, I taught five students for six weeks. My thought process in starting with a small group was to allow those students to become strong brand ambassadors for the Retail Training course. I stopped the course for about a two-week period because I was unable to make enough time for curriculum development and promotion of upcoming courses. *
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*Honing in on curriculum, my progress towards preparing for my course in the last week has been very slow. My six-week teaching experience has given me a good sense of how people acquire English fluency in the Bagar context, how to manage a classroom and how to engage and keep students interested. However, I think having this much knowledge has proven challenging in that now I know there is so much more to learn in order to make my curriculum high quality and comprehensive in nature. *
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*So because I have only a limited number of days before the course starts, I have decided that restrategizing is in order so I can meet the February 4thdeadline. Instead of creating thorough lesson plans weeks in advance, I’m putting together tentative objectives for each week and creating a database of activities from which I can find activities that fall under each of these objectives. *
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*If anyone has any other ideas on curriculum development, I welcome your suggestions: radhika.batra@gmail.com. *