Teaching tips

Teaching Tips for Mixed-Ability Classes

Teachers can find some suggestions here on how to teach a class of students of varying English-language levels.

This first article covers the following teaching strategies:

Discussion and needs analysis; student self-awarenes; and work groupings 

This article is written by Gareth Rees, teacher/teacher trainer of London Metropolitan University, UK

This second article covers:

Range of tasks; Extra work / Homework; Student nomination; Supporting the weaker students; and Error correction

This article is written by Gareth Rees, teacher/teacher trainer of London Metropolitan University, UK.

Adapting materials for mixed ability classes can take different forms. Find out more from this article.

This article is written by Jo Budden.

The original article was published on Teaching English, a website which is produced by the British Council with content and editorial support from the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Group/pair work and whole-class activities often go hand in hand for teachers to carry out effective English language lessons. Read more about these two techniques.

This article is written by Simon Andrewes.