Meet the Materials Designers!

This website is the result of our efforts at applying the concepts of content-based instruction to the design of classroom lessons and activities. We are a group of twelve graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., and we are all completing a graduate course in Content-based Instruction. Some of us are in our first semesters in a TESOL Master’s program, and some in the final weeks before graduation. Below is a brief sketch on each student:

(You can send an email, if you click a name.)

Name

Amanda

Jeff

Jeong-Eun

Jihae

Liang-Chieh

Merridy

Romy

Sheila

Soomin

William

Ya-Wen

Youn
Chris

We designed this website, our final class project, as a resource for teachers around the world who would like to try out some content-based activities. We consider these drafts that we will want to revise once we have tried them out in our classrooms. For most of us, this is the first time we have tried to integrate language with content in the design of classroom materials. We really welcome your comments and suggestions on the ctivities, and if you have a chance to try them out, please let us know how they worked.