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| Title | More Suggestions for Keeping Adult Students Coming to Class |
| Body | Here are a few more recommendations from teachers of adult ESL students which may help you maintain high attendance levels. ---- Provide information and skills that they want and need. Try matching your teaching to the needs of busy adults by doing a needs assessment in your community when designing the general program and then at the beginning of individual classes. Change course work in response to the results and make sure students are aware that any change is a result of the needs assessment. Many adult students want to develop their technology skills and see the value in doing so. If possible, incorporate the use of technology in pedagogically sound ways into the language instruction providing real training in using common software programs like Word or Excel or the Internet while also providing language instruction. Lately, I have been experimenting with giving all enrolling students email addresses at www.gaggle.net. Doing so provides one more way that I can enhance communication between my students and myself. I have had several students email me that they will be absent on a particular day or that they were absent because of a certain reason and can I "send them the homework?" It's my belief that any method that keeps students "connected" to what we're doing in the class while they're absent increases the possibility that they'll return as soon as they can, instead of feeling lost or left out and perhaps waiting for a new semester to "start again." Bakin, B. Re: Keeping Adult ESL students. Neteach-L listserv. NETEACH-L@HUNTER.LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU (1 Mar. 2006). |
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| Inputdate | 2006-03-10 16:47:00 |
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