Dealing with mixed ability classes
with Heather Belgorodtseva
March 21, 2023
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Moscow
Avia Plaza, Aviamotornaya street, 10 b.2.
and Online
Guest Speaker:
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Moscow
Avia Plaza, Aviamotornaya street, 10 b.2.
and Online
Guest Speaker:
Heather Belgorodtseva
(The Director of Studies for Teacher Training at BKC IH Moscow, BA(Hons), Trinity Cert TESOL, DELTA, PGCE)
About the Speaker
Heather Belgorodtseva
Heather Belgorodtseva is the Director of Studies for Teacher Training at BKC IH Moscow. Teaching English since 1998, she has been a teacher, an academic manager and a teacher trainer in both London and Moscow, in private language schools and further education colleges. She has run as many as 90 CELTA courses and now trains on a CELTA-alternative course for BKC, and on post-CELTA courses, including Delta preparation for
modules 1 and 3.
modules 1 and 3.
About the Workshop
As soon as we get two or more students in the same class, we are dealing with a mixed ability situation, because all students, all people, differ from each other.
But we want every student to benefit from our lessons equally. So what to do about the differences? Is it just a matter of varying our activities and hoping that something in the lesson works for everyone?
In this session we will explore a number of ways of helping each person within our classes get the most out of every lesson, looking at individual goal setting, analysis of different task types, and ideas about how to use interaction patterns effectively.
But we want every student to benefit from our lessons equally. So what to do about the differences? Is it just a matter of varying our activities and hoping that something in the lesson works for everyone?
In this session we will explore a number of ways of helping each person within our classes get the most out of every lesson, looking at individual goal setting, analysis of different task types, and ideas about how to use interaction patterns effectively.
TMLC: Dealing with mixed ability classes
An excerpt of the presentation given by Heather Belgorodtseva at the 2023 March meeting of the Teacher Mentor Learning Community.
