The document outlines the process a teacher took to design a content-based ESOL curriculum for her students. She started by attending conferences, talking to other teachers, and researching existing models but found nothing that fully met her students' needs. She focused on determining goals that addressed bridging students' current abilities with what they needed, while considering teaching styles and constraints. This included establishing the purpose, communication needs, goals, resources, materials, and evaluation of the pilot program. The teacher worked to sort and focus the goals to best represent the teaching objectives and student needs, considering the relationships between language, content, and strategies. She defined learning objectives that reflected awareness, knowledge, and skills across these three components by the end of the