Gemma

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Qualified Native English Teacher 18 years of Experience Individual or group lessons Hours to suit you All levels - ALL needs TOEFL, IELTS, Cambridge Exams, English to work, study and interviews Learn

ESL
English reading
English listening
Business English
IELTS
TOEIC

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About Gemma

- A senior qualified teacher with significant experience in Business/General English and Cambridge Exams. Has worked in all kind of schools and multinational companies within Europe, including Poland, Italy, Spain, France and the UK
- fluent Spanish and native English speaker, Modern languages Degree, TEFL qualified, TESOL Coordinator, Cambridge/Trinity exams, General/Business English, experienced in all ages and levels.

About the lesson

Differentiation has been defined as ‘an approach to teaching that attempts to ensure that all students learn well, despite their many differences’ (original emphasis).[1]

One reason why differentiation is so important in ESOL is that the learners are so varied. Indeed, the Adult ESOL Core Curriculum in England recognises that even within one class, ‘backgrounds may span a wide continuum, ranging from people with no previous education or employment at one end to highly educated professionals, such as doctors or university lecturers, on the other’.[2] Similarly, Scottish providers recognise that ‘There is no such person as a “typical” ESOL learners’.[3] Philida Schellekens has even suggested that ‘diversity is one of the main defining characteristics of the ESOL classroom’.[4]

Differentiation in the ESOL classroom

Differentiation encompasses learners’ professional and educational backgrounds, their varying motivations, interests, learning styles, ages, aptitudes, abilities – indeed, anything that make one learner distinct from another. Policy documents such as ESOL Access for All in England have reminded us that taking learning and difficulties and physical impairments into account is particularly important in the practice of differentiation in ESOL classrooms

The differences that ESOL teachers must attend to are not simply to do with learners’ first language or where they come from. Differentiation encompasses learners’ professional and educational backgrounds, their varying motivations, interests, learning styles, ages, aptitudes, abilities – indeed, anything that make one learner distinct from another. Policy documents such as ESOL Access for All in England have reminded us that taking learning and difficulties and physical impairments into account is particularly important in the practice of differentiation in ESOL classrooms

Qualified Native English Teacher 18 years of Experience Individual or group lessons Hours to suit you All levels - ALL needs TOEFL, IELTS, Cambridge Exams, English to work, study and interviews Learn

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online

Other tutors in ESL

Ethan

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Delia (Del)

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Ryan

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Alaa

Josh

Dee

HERE AND NOW

Issam

Hassan

Nicolette

Derek

Atmiya

Imran

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