Teaching Across proficiency levels

"Make students understand the class"

It is necessary to have the correct knowledge and materials when a teachers is going to give a second language class which for beginners can be a challenge since they do not know how to deal with a class or maybe they feel afraid. Moreover, when students have a previous knowledge about the language, it is pretty important that teachers know which skills they are going to apply because if you give a lot of vocabulary or brunches of concepts they may feel overwhelmed;so, teachers must be careful to use limited number of new words, phrases and sentences in order to make a class understandable; so, teachers do not get frustrated if students do not get things at the first time they are developing a topic.

The teacher's role for  students that are beginners, it is important because they are expecting a lot of the teacher since they want to acquire the second language, and teachers need to make activities in which students can be working in groups or in pairs;and then, they are going to have an idea when the teachers want them to share in the class; Moreover, teachers need to remember that students are focused on the things they are saying;so, it is pretty important that teachers use the secondo language clearly and also the vocabulary that they are going to use.

Furthermore, authenticity is important for teachers; they do not need to pretend with their students using log-terms that probably they are not going to understand, instead a teacher needs to use short phrases; for example, if they aregoing to give directions, teachers need to be pretty concise instead of going around the bushes.

Regarding intermediate levels teachers, they need to be constat with the proccess of acquiring a language; for example, make students keep automacity; this means, allow them the bits and pieces of the most important parts of the language. In addition, teachers must avoid to much teacher talking because learners are not going to be able to speak which is important for this leve; also, a teacher should use less the mothers tongue language but they are going to have cases in which the use of it, is important; for example, when a word is pretty difficult to explain or when a teacher has spent all the techniques in order to make students understand a word.

With advanced level, the way of learning is different for students because they are supposed to handle a situation in the target language; and also, let them to ask and to talk because at this level the things that they take into account is to communicate and keep on working on pronunciation and chunks.

Teaching Across Age Levels

It is important to know how to teach in differents age levels because there are many techniques that are useful  in order to make students understand better the second language. For example, adults can learn the target language momorizing a large number of vocabulary or using conceps while children learn the second language naturally but hey do not need abstract words to learn the language;so that, for children teachers do not need to explain grammar terms because they may not understand or maybe they can get bored because nothing of the things that teachers are explaining in the class is understandable for them;so, it is better for teachers make children understand through demostration and a little bit of repetition.

Another important technique is attetion span which consists in activities that can cal their attention; an example can be watching a cartoon that they like; and in that way, they are going to be focused on the activity; also, teachers must be enthusiastic and show energy because children are always hyperactive. Furthermore, senses must be stimalated; so, it is a need to keep in mind doing activities like role plays, science projects and hand-on activities; so that, children are going to be busy doing different kind of activities. In addition, Affective factors need to be taken into account because children are very sensitive, and if you say something in an appropiate way they may understand another thing; for example, if a children make a mistake answering a question make him or her laugh of that mistake but just remember that everything has a limit.

Regarding adults, they are able to handle abstract rules an concepts but teachers might be careful not to overwhelmed them because they can feel stressed or confused. Another important aspect is that teachers must not underestimate adults´ emotions because they may feel uncomfortable or angry; so that, teachers must respect their feelings or point of views. In addition, teachers cannot discipline adults as children; so it is important that teachers that see an attitude of disrecpect or disrupting class they should call their attention telling them that they can understand things better and and also that they are mature.

Teenagers are different because they are between childhood and adulthood;nevertheless, they are able to use abstrac concepts as adults bus this shoul be teach little by little because they are not mature as adults. So, it is important for teachers be careful not to create embarrassment to teenagers because next time they are not going to participate in the class or probably he or she will hate the teacher;for that reason teachers need to keep affirming each student talents and  strenghs in a possitive way. 

To sum up it is very important for all teachers to know how to manage age levels in order to elaborate lessons plans regarding every type of age.