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Tips for Accommodating Advanced Students in ESL Classroom

Most classes have several students who are more advanced than the others. They learn easily, their assignments are finished quickly, but they can be a behavior problem if they are bored. Teachers are required to meet the needs of children with a wide range of abilities and very different needs. There are a finite number of hours in a school day but the variety of student needs is infinite. This article will list some ideas that might be a step towards solving the needs of advanced students in an English second language class.

Advanced students may:
- learn quickly without needing to work at it
- be reliable conscientious workers
- be interested in only one thing
- not have good work habits
- have a negative attitude to school
- be very talkative and social
- be very quiet and withdrawn into their field of interest
- complete their assignments ahead of the others

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Demand is growing in schools overseas for people to teach conversational American to foreign students of all ages. Candidates don't have to be teachers by profession -- although it helps to have a college degree and some training in Teaching English as a Second Language, or TESL. Rather, the ideal instructor is adventurous, adaptable and interested in exotic climes -- mainly in Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Latin America.

Jobs can be as short as a summer session or as long as a school year. The work itself can be challenging. Classroom discipline and student attitudes vary widely. Some teachers have arrived at their destination only to find that employment promises were misleading. Accommodations and amenities, of course, are often vastly different from home.

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