Josh,
I am a fairly new volunteer teacher ---- also in an
adult ESL class--- open enrollment, open ended type
class.  I may have between 2 - 10 students at a class
period which is 2 hours.  Some of my students are
recent immigrants and know only a few words of English
and others are high beginners or intermediates.  What
a challenge!!  

We do follow a workbook and regimented outline
"Lifeprints: ESL for Adults"  but generally during the
two hours we will deviate and go into depth on a
certain point for the more advanced students and also
back up and review some very basic concepts.  I do use
a lot of realia and base it on the topic of the
chapter we are on or some other relavant topic.  

For example, 2 weeks ago we had 2 brand new immigrants
to our class so the next week I brought state maps,
city maps, tourism brochures of our city and state,
post cards and we talked about our town and state. At
times in very limited language but  I felt it
incorporated all the students into the discussion even
though the very beginner students mostly looked at the
pictures.

Hope this helps,
Kari

--- Josh Kildall <kildalljt at hotmail.com> wrote:


> Hi everyone,

> I teach an adult immigrant ESL class, level high

> beginner to low advanced, 

> and am looking for general strategies to teach

> multilevel classes. I have 

> used multilevel cloze activities and pairing lower

> and higher students 

> together, but what other suggestions do you have?

> Thanks for any ideas,

> Josh

> 

>

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