 Re: Pay sites
Hi Marc,
I would sit down and try to work out a basic course outline - month by month and then you can break it down into week by week - for the next 6 months or so for each of your class levels. If you don't have access to any text books at the school are there any esl book shops near you for you check out sample curriculum? Usually the books give a structured table in their content pages and with a bit of tweaking here and there you can adapt their ideas into your own plans.
It's an awful lot easier to decide what handouts/worksheets/flashcards you need when you have a structured plan.
I'm in a similar position at my school with not having any books to teach from and setting my own curriculum. I use the internet a lot for research, finding images for flashcards and getting ideas etc. I subscribed to one website for a year because of the range of flashcards and worksheets that they offered and while I have printed from them I found in any case I was rewriting the worksheets to make them more exciting for my classes.
For a lot of people it comes down to time, if you have plenty of it then there is no problem in taking the time to make all your own resources, but having a lot of preparation time is not usually something you hear from a hagwon teacher ^^.
Perhaps you can get the school to subscribe to a few good sites? ;p
good luck
xx jen |