teaching a non-english 入門 course

I can't comment on the making of the content, but if I can share from my experience last year of taking those sign language classes, don't underestimate how overwhelming too much content can be at one time. My classes were more frequent and longer than yours is going to be, but they would cram so much into those lessons, that I personally found it really hard to grasp all the random things being thrown at me. Then the next week we'd review for 5 minutes but move onto completely different topics.

It would get to the point where, I felt I could express myself in very simple terms (because I had memorized the set expressions like 'I like (XYZ)' but only for the answers that pertained to me specifically), but I couldn't understand what any other person said to me because I hadn't been able to remember all the vocabularly that was getting thrown at us each lesson. I knew my partner was saying 'I like' but had no idea what their answer was. Then that snowballed for the entire course...

so I think doing more activities where the students have to output and communicate with each other using a set amount of vocab is helpful, especially for only an hour. And I like the idea that the overall theme for a 入門 coure is a proper self introduction, with each week being a mini lesson on a sub-topic that they can then use to do a self-intro at the end of the course or whatever. It would be cool to make them do presentations with each other where they do the full self-intro; after they can reflect on their progress and see how their effort paid off little by little, helping them go from 0 to actual sentences!