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SUMMARY:Lunch n Learn: Multilevel Teaching Strategies #1: Starting Points - Meeting Learners Where They Are
DESCRIPTION:Lunch n Learn: Multilevel Teaching Strategies #1: Starting Points – Meeting Learners Where They Are\nDate: Wednesday\, September 23\, 2026\nTime: 12:00 pm -1:00 pm\nWhere: Online\, Zoom\nRegistration: Click here \nFacilitators: Leanne Adegbonmire \nMulti-level classes are the norm\, not the exception — and no class is ever truly single-level. This first session sets the foundation. We look at the many ways classes and learners are diverse\, name the real advantages and challenges of a multi-level room\, and ground the work in two ideas: Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development and Krashen’s comprehensible input +1. A short simulation puts you in the seat of a learner reading at frustration level — it’s a quick way to feel why “slightly above current level” matters so much\, and why learners with emerging first-language literacy can struggle even in a well-planned lesson.\n\nFrom there we turn to the most freeing idea in the whole series: you don’t have to differentiate everything. We look at how to decide when differentiation is genuinely necessary and when consistency serves learners better\, and how a shared theme and shared classroom routines let one class hold several levels without becoming three lessons at once.\n\nYou’ll leave with: a way to identify the levels and needs actually in your room\, a decision point for when to differentiate\, and a set of routines and theme-based planning habits you can put in place next week.
URL:https://www.ecala.org/program/lunch-n-learn-multilevel-teaching-strategies-1-starting-points-meeting-learners-where-they-are/
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SUMMARY:Big Picture: Beyond Individual Lesson Planning
DESCRIPTION:Big Picture: Beyond Individual Lesson Planning\nDate: Wednesday\, September 28\, 2026\nTime: 1:00 pm -3:00 pm\nWhere: Online\, Zoom\nRegistration: Click here \nFacilitators: Leanne Adegbonmire \nMost planning time goes into the next lesson. This session steps back to unit and term planning: setting goals for a whole course\, sequencing toward them\, and knowing what you’re building across weeks rather than days. Scheduled before teaching begins so you can put it to work immediately.
URL:https://www.ecala.org/program/big-picture-beyond-individual-lesson-planning/
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