How to Teach Listening Skills: Best Practices. Tricks and activities for improving FCE students' listening! A massive percentage of FCE students fail because of listening.
Listening is hard for English language learners, and rightly so. In the real world, when do you have to listen to recordings and answer complex questions, which deliberately try to trick you? Willett%20et%20al._Verplaetse_chapter3. The ACCELA Alliance is a professional development partnership between the University of Massachusetts Amherst, local urban school districts, and several community organizations in Western Massachusetts.
Members of the ACCELA Alliance are committed to providing data-driven, locally-responsive, and sustained professional development to educators working to support the academic literacy development of linguistically and culturally diverse learners in this region. As part of this effort, the ACCELA Alliance offers two graduate-level professional development programs: one in ESL education, and another in reading. Upon successful completion of either program, teachers can earn a Masters degree or Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study (CAGS) and apply for an ESL and/or Reading Specialist license. All classes are currently taught in Springfield or Holyoke by professors from the UMass College of Education. Suggestions for Helping Troubled Students. 23/03/11 10:02 Filed in: class room management This article will suggest some approaches that may help you, as teachers, to deal with these troubled and often demanding young people.
There are troubled children, confused teens and upset adults in every country of the world. We live in a changing world that seems to present new complex situations that previous generations didn’t have to confront. Consequently, there are bound to be distressed students in our classrooms. This article will suggest some approaches that may help you, as teachers, to deal with these troubled and often demanding young people. Dealing With Impulsive Behavior Inside the Classroom. Top 10 Tips to Deal With Indiscipline in the Classroom. Keeping Teens in Check: Effective Classroom Management for Young Adults.