I am really glad that many old students came to the Italian class for the spring term (starting already on Monday). Couple of them went to Italy for an exchange and they said - it was really nice experience - but too short cause lasted only 3 months.
It´s true: abroad experiences should be at least 9 months cause 3 months are the exactly time when you get to know the system: your project is over and you have to come back home. What people can learn from that experience? maybe something but not too much.
These two students belong to the ONLY Italian class which has vocational students. The difficulty in this course is that are coming all the time new students with level zero and it´s really challenging to bring all of them to the same level. How can I give a quality lesson?
I decided to separate the two levels: in the same learning environment, at the same time I give them different exercises on the same issue. It´s double work for me but I don´t see any other solution at the moment. Applying this strategy contribute to rise the level of paper work and planning. For couple hours planning I need half of the day in order to find on the same issue different but effective exercises, role games and vocabulary activities.
On Monday I will start also my teaching training where I could possible face the same situation.
Let´s see how I will handle it.
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