TESOL for Children Curriculum

Contents

I. TESOL Age Categories : 10 Hours
Childhood Development

1. Toddler through Age 5 - Elementary Age Development

2. Ages 6-9 - Junior High Age Development

3. Ages 10-13 - High School Age Development

4. Ages 14-17

II. Overview of Second Language : 10 Hours

1. Acquisition and Teaching Levels

2. Learning Styles for Different Intelligence Types

III. Discipline in the Classroom : 10 Hours

IV. Teaching Approaches : 10 Hours

1. Rassias Method

2. Total Physical Response

3. Content-Centered Language Learning

4. Lexical Approach

5. Whole-Language Approach

6. Communicative Approach

V. Lesson Planning : 10 Hours

1. Circle Time / Transitions

2. Site Words

3. Music in the Classroom

4. Fun with Science

5. Game Playing

6. Role-Playing

7. Artworks

8. Drop Everything and Read

9. Debate Teams

VI. Review : 10 Hours

1. Rassias Method: Fundamentals, Why it Works, Classroom Functions

2. Other Models

3. Online Time with Instructor

4. Teacher Placement

ONSITE – 30 hrs (5 days)
Foreign language experience

• Basic model in any language

• Activities and discussions about how it felt to be taught in other language

• Homework.

Basic model demo

• Basic model in English

• Going over the steps

• Peer teaching

Receptive skills lesson

• Discussion and activities about listening

• Listening lesson demo

• Go over the steps of listening lesson

• Discussion and activities about reading

• Reading lesson demo

• Go over the steps of reading lesson

• Peer teaching

Warmers

• Explaining the importance of warmers and give several examples

Communicative activities

• Explaining and exampling a variety of communicative activities
  Teaching young learners

• Information and activities about how to teach young learners

Classroom management

• Information and activities regarding managing a class

• Disaster management

Theater techniques

• Explain the importance of theater and acting in class (both teacher and students)

• Acting activities

Songs and chants

• Information about how to use songs and chants

• Activities

Grammar and phonology

• Grammar explanation

• Activities for teaching grammar

• Phonology explanation

• Activities for teaching phonology