Parallels to multilevel classroom

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Below are examples from Range of Teacher Experience Full Discussion regarding similarities between range of teacher experience in PD and multi-level classrooms. Please add your ideas to the bulleted list.

What strategies do you use to ensure that the teacher new to adult literacy or ESOL doesn't leave feeling overwhelmed or confused, while the experienced teacher leaves with new ideas, even feeling 're-charged'?

  • This question gets at the heart of "practice what you preach" in adult education (at least in my opinion): the art of facilitating multi-level classrooms, integrating the strategy of peer tutoring, review and reinforce of learning, building on learners' prior knowledge. These ideas that we suggest be a fundamental part of the learning environment for our adult learners in basic skills programs should be the same ideas that we build our PD around: build on participants' prior knowledge, network and share ideas, engage more experienced participants to extend dialogue, or challenge the more experienced participants to extend or reinforce what they know (or think they know). Jeff Fantine
  • I see the training sessions as no different from my classroom. As a facilitator/teacher, I need to be flexible and I need to be able to adapt to the environment presented. I come into it with my own expectations and goals but my "students" may well have other needs and goals. It's a lot like dealing with a multilevel classroom. I know at the recent training, all three of us, were constantly gaining feedback from the participants - letting them drive to some degree where we took the training. We also allowed for a chance for them to tell us where they needed/wanted more training and plan to plan for that in the coming months. Katrina Hinson
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