Part of my NGO assignment is to conduct a thrice-weekly English class for the NGO staff. It’s been a fun way to learn more about the people I work with, and I’ve been given full leeway on lesson plans. Of course, I’ve never before taught English classes, so the task of constructing the first few lesson plans was a bit intimidating. It’s an interesting task, as they all have basic familiarity with English but have had minimal exposure (if any) to Westerners and native English speakers.
Conveniently, another volunteer from Lauren’s NGO pointed me to the Curriculum Project, a set of English learning materials developed specifically for my target audience:
The Curriculum Project was established in 2001 to work with senior secondary (Post-10) schools and adult education programs along the Thai/Burma border. The Curriculum Project provides curricula, materials and teacher training to further education and adult education projects run by Burmese exile, refugee and migrant communities on the Burma border.
I’ve still constructed personalized lesson plans for my NGO, but their General English modules have provided me with a good backbone of content to leverage.
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