High School NELP Program

Our high school NELP program is going well. I currently have 4 students in my English Conversation class. We study the same oral communication textbook that the SELP students use: Totally True from Oxford. However, we study it at a much faster pace. It also helps that we have a multi-media classroom because it becomes much easier to show how the textbook relates to things in real life.

For example, Lesson 1 was about a man named Scott Ginsberg.

So we looked at Mr. Ginsberg's webpage:

and we watched a news report about Mr. Ginsberg (available on his webpage):

This helps keep our lessons current and relevant, and really helps students see that we're studying things in the real world, and not merely reading textbook examples.

In Addition, our class will be visited periodically by university professors who will give one-day lectures/seminars/lessons etc. from time to time. I'm sure the students will be looking forward to that as well.

In my 8th Period Independent Studies Class, the students are preparing for the STEP test and the TOEIC test. We have a lot of study books in the classroom, and the students, as the course name suggests, mostly study by themselves.