One of my great challenges in my classes is the differences of ages in my classes of the evening shift. In a same class I have, for example, people from 17 years old and 62 years old in the same class. This situations turns the lesson planing harder, I have to look for ways to engage all the students in the activity, taking in account that each age level has its own level of interest in a specific subject.
This program helped me exchange experiences with my peers from other regions of Brazil, some of them have the same problem in their classes, so I could listen to them in order to learn what they use to make the planing and the class more successful. I will improve my classes with the suggestions I listened here and my students will certainly have more successs in learning English. Using diverse texts and activities and avoid use only one kind of subject can help me to motivate more these peculiar group.
Your last sentence is the key really: "Using diverse texts and activities and avoid use only one kind of subject can help me to motivate more these peculiar group". If you are always switching things up- texts, activities, groups, etc., you will get to everyone and people will not have time to be bored and they will see how they can learn from anyone, young or old, native speaker or not, etc.
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