•Vanessa Brandon•Yanella Britos•Patricia Lago•Mirian Nitzoff•Ma. Eugenia Silva

Take a minute to think Take a minute to think about the following about the following questions…questions…

Where are your Syllabi?

How often do you check your course Syllabus?

How many parts does our Syllabus have?

How do you keep track of what you have covered?

Is it advisable to share the syllabus with the student body?

How necessary is this tool?

•Organize time wisely so you have units covered before the test.

•Keep track of where you are weekly.

•Double check that the number of classes provided on the syllabus corresponds to the actual calendar dates.

“… the very notion of time management is a misnomer for we cannot manage time. We can only manage ourselves in relation to time. We cannot control how we use it. We cannot choose whether to spend it, but only how.”-- Alec Mackenzie, The Time Trap- American Management Association, 1990

Make sure not only grammar content is covered, but also functional content.

It is important to have a general overview of extra material, otherwise you might end up using something assigned to another course.

Having the topic clearly stated helps you out. You can search the web for

extra materials, worksheets, etc..

Keep in mind the scoring rubrics according to CEF:

A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Basic userBasic 1 & 2

Basic userBasic 3 & 4

Indep. user Int.1 & 2

Indep. user Int. 3 & 4 First

Prof. UserAdv.& Pre-Prof.

Prof. UserProf.

Share course objectives with students so that you all know where you are going.

Raise awareness on students of the fact that there is a syllabus (which is not the book). For instance, you can make a photocopy and post it on the bulletinboard.

“…one of the reasons I like classes and structured learning is that they encourage-and contribute to-the belief that life is orderly, that things happen when they are supposed to happen, that actions have predictable results and that events are controllable.”

--Roby James, Commencement, p. 189 Unknown

“A vision without action is but a dream; action without vision is a waste of time; but vision with action can change our lives.”

M. Ignacio Tinajero, 1995 Texas Teacher of the Year, Unknown

In other words: “A syllabus without a teacher is but a dream; a teacher without a syllabus is wasting time; but a syllabus with a teacher can change students' performance.”