Effective Teaching Strategies in an Adult ESL Classroom

This is part 1 of a 4 part video illustrating effective teaching strategies in an adult ESL classroom. The teacher uses pictures and text, and real fruits and vegetables to teach basic vocabulary and language structures. She connects classroom and community by having students go on a site visit to a local farm to practice the language they are learning. Students later visit a grocery store where they ask questions. Back in the classroom they compare prices and do further language work. Heide Spruck Wrigley narrates and highlights effective instructional strategies and promising practices, including “bringing the outside in.”

The Reading Demonstration

Heide Wrigley shows how to use materials from the everyday lives of learners to allow students to demonstrate what they can do with print.