PROJECT - ESL PROGRAM FOR ADULTS
Rationale:
We as people of God constantly deal with the tensions caused by different values taught between the church and the secular world. Compromising our faith has become a norm or an excuse. Instead of being consumed by frustration and fear, creating a safe and relational environment to learn new knowledge and skills through faith languages is important. For me, faith languages are the languages that are used by people of God to communicate their own faith journey in Jesus Christ and convey the story of God in which they are part of within and beyond the Christian community. Faith languages would include the languages of love, peace, joy, forgiveness, hope, and all characteristics that reflect and attribute to God. John 3:16-17 summarizes adequately the kind of God that we confess to believe. |
One of the teaching principles, Communicative Competence, resonates mostly with the ELS program oriented toward faith languages that I have envisioned for a church setting as it says on the left.
For this project, I arrange the writing and the reading lessons in every other week so that students are able to practice both skills with the same learning contents in order to have a holistic ESL learning experience. It is my prayer that people coming to the ESL class feel the sense of competence of where they are in their learning journey and put aside the values of competition and self-justification, which often take away the authentic relationship building opportunity. |
My teaching philosophy has been influenced by how I think about discipleship. Jesus made disciples who discipled the following generations who have been making disciples until now. Therefore, my teaching philosophy is: Teaching and equipping students how to teach themselves through collaborations and experiments. |
Overview Lesson Plans shows the outlines of the ten-hour-teaching plans, three lessons for each reading and writing with a final review lesson. Each lesson is one and a half hours.
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