TEACHING ACROSS PROFICIENCY LEVELS

TEACHING BEGINNING LEVELS

Techniques are used in this level,  for example group and pair activities are excellent techniques as long as the students are structured and clearly defined with specific objectives. With those techniques students will learn easier because techniques help them to develop more skills;also, the will appreciate to practice a new language. In this level, the teacher is the center of attention;hence, English needs to be clearly articulated in order that students can understand what the teacher is explaning in the class. Receptive and productive creativity are really important in this level because students can be creative only within the confines of a highly controlled repertoire of language.

TEACHING INTERMEDIATE LEVELS

Student-student interaction can take place in pairs, small groups, and whole-class activity in this kind of level. The interaction between students it is really important because it helps to develop more ideas, comments,etc. Students will feel comfortable in the educational environment. Also, students are encouraged to ask questions, or make comments; for that reason, the teacher has to allow sufficient participation between students and in that way students will understand about the different activities that the teacher is applying.

TEACHING ADVANCED LEVELS

For this level students have the opportunity to talk about all the things they have learned during their learning process. Some different techniques, like role-plays, debates scanning and skimming reading material are the techniques that students can get when they are in this important level. An important point about teaching advanced level is the age and proficiency variables because they are two important issues to incorporate into any attempt to plan and conduct language lessons. So, students need to take into account the different goals that they have planned during their learning process.

TEACHING ACROSS AGE LEVELS

It is really important when someone wants to teach because he or she has to know very well the different ages that the students have and in that way the teacher will apply some different activities according to the ages. Hence, teaching across age levels helps teachers to develop more techniques and activities for the students.

TEACHING CHILDREN

The activities that the teachers give their students should be designed to catch their immediate interest. It means the teacher has to make lessons interesting, lively and fun because in this case children tend to get bored very fast. So, it is really important that the teacher can develop new activities or change his methodology in order to have better results in the classroom.
Another point is that children must have all five senses stimulated, this is interesting because in that way children learn very easy.

TEACHING ADULTS

The teacher has to know very well what kinds of activities he can apply in the classroom when he is teaching to adults. The teacher has to understand that he can not treat adults like children(calling them kids, using caretaker talk or talking down to them) because teachers have to treat adults like adults.
Students adults are always higly motivated and the most important thing is that they are clear about their goals.

TEACHING TEENS:

Teaching teenagers is a stage very difficult because teens want to do all the things they want. It can be difficult to create a positive learning environment in which adolescents feel happy, secure, valued and motivated to learn. The reasons for this are many because teenagers are going through many physical emotional changes, including changes in their brains. Also, if they want to go to classes, it may be because it is where the rest of their friends are.So they feel motivated by them.  To sum up, the teacher has to take into consideration what activities he or she can apply in the classroom and the benefits for the teenagers.