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Skills for Life Quality Initiative
Session 4: Approaches to differentiated teaching and
learning
Aim
For participants to:
consider differentiation in teaching ESOL.
Objectives
By the end of the session, participants will have:
explored effective strategies for differentiation in the ESOL classroom
identified a range of factors that affect planning for differentiated learning.
Time Content Resources
No. Style Title
Pre-sessions tasks
3.6.1
Activity
Follow-up task to
Session 3 and presession
task for
Session 4
5
(5)
Introduction
Briefly review the main
points of Session 3.
Introduce the session aim
and learning objectives.
4.1.1
4.1.2
OHT
OHT
Session 4: Aim
Session 4: Learning
objectives
10
Planning lessons
Purpose: to share
knowledge of what makes
a good lesson plan.
Ask participants, working
in pairs or groups of three,
to look at the plans they
have brought in (or
distribute sample plans).
Participants make two lists
on the grid supplied as
4.2.1
Activity
Lesson planning
Sample lesson plans
(in case participants
forget to bring
examples)
ESOL 4.11: Current issues in teaching ESOL in post-16 education and training /
Session 4: Approaches to differentiated teaching and learning
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