Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

Planning for mixed-ability classes
You may often be teaching a class which has students who are clearly of different levels. They may have different starting levels of English or they may learn at very different speeds - for any number of reasons.
T hese are several strategies that a teacher can use to deal with this situation. This is the first of two articles on the topic.
The second article covers...
Range of tasks
Extra work / Homework
Student nomination
Supporting the weaker students
Error correction
This first article deals with the following strategies.

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  Discussion and needs analysis
  

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  Student self-awareness
  

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  Work groupings