Casey, along with many others wrote in to ask: How do you deal with kids of different abilities in the same class? The key to dealing with mixed ability classes is “peer learning”  where instead of one level of teaching coming from the teacher, the kids are in groups or pairs and teach each other…

UPDATE*  Thanks to everyone for the call, it was fantastic!  I just put a wrap up post here! ———————————————————————————————————————— Do you have classroom problems you’d like help with? Or teaching questions you’d like to ask me? Whilst I always try to help as much as I can via email, I always find it much easier…

Here’s a great game sent in by Libu in Reunion. 1. Before class hide today’s flashcards around the classroom. 2. One you’ve gone through today’s song, the kids ask you today’s question e.g. What can you see?, What’s sports do you play?, What’s your favourite subject? etc. 3. Say “Sorry?” a few times to make sure…