Now that you’re well into your classes this Spring, we wanted to take the opportunity to revisit teaching multilevel classrooms. As you know, this is briefly touched on in the English Forward Instructor Training. Teaching a multilevel classroom is a difficult task. There could be another whole training just on multilevel classrooms!
You can adjust your teaching in several different ways to accommodate students at different levels. Using realia is great because it gives students something to tie language to regardless of their proficiency level. You can also allow students to demonstrate understanding or communicate in nonverbal ways.
To learn more, you can look at pages 9-10 of the Beginning English Forward Curriculum. Click here to be taken to the Beginning English Forward Curriculum!