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Diversity is challenging in my classrooms with many students from neighboring countries, whose parents don´t speak Spanish well because some of them are illitarate; some students have their parents support at home in their learning process, others not making a big diffence between these two groups.

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Diversity is challenging in my classrooms with many students from neighboring countries, whose parents don´t speak Spanish well because some of them are illitarate; some students have their parents support at home in their learning process, others not making a big diffence between these two groups.

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The strategies I use is trying to cater for the different learning styles by using music, visual support, etc

Diana Robledo

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Diversity is present in the EFL classroom as it is in the mainstream classroom. As Diana Robledo says in her post we have to deal with students who come from  neighbouring countries with very little instruction. They lack background knowledge what makes learning new things much more difficult for them. We also have students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In this context diversity represents a big challenge in the EFL class.   

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Diversity is present in the EFL classroom as it is in the mainstream classroom. As Diana Robledo says in her post we have to deal with students who come from  neighbouring countries with very little instruction. They lack background knowledge what makes learning new things much more difficult for them. We also have students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In this context diversity represents a big challenge in the EFL class.   

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In order to face this reality I try to adapt material to the different levels and to use different ways of representation (visual, auditory and kinesthetic) in order to reach most of my students with different learning styles.

Cecilia Bernoi

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As it has been mentioned, diversity is present in every classroom and of course, in the EFL classroom too. They go from children who need the constant support of a special teacher to children who don't respect the limits (because they get easily bored or they cannot focus) and misbehave.
Diversity is always a challenge because it embraces every aspect that make us unique.
I always try different ways to approach the children and different activities until I know what they like best or they respond best. I also ask the teacher for some clues and support.

Marina Marquez

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I think that diversity has always been  in our classrooms. If we are aware of the different background ad realities our students have we must admit that equality is not possible. 

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I think that diversity has always been  in our classrooms. If we are aware of the different background ad realities our students have we must admit that equality is not possible. 

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However, the number of children with special educational needss has increased lately in public schools.   What meant a new challenge for everyone.
What I wonder is how we can, as educators,   help them do their best.. What is more important...how can we help them feel loved and able to learn?   Viviana Fraga

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Diversity represents a large part of my class, it is present in every child and in every family.
As my colleagues say, it has to do with the differences between cultures and the different ways of educating that families have.
To face this "challenge" I first observe what is the difficulty that arises within the classroom, and then I try to enter another way so that the child can feel accompanied.

Lucila Digangi.

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I think diversity is present in all classrooms in the world. In many cases we have children whose family background is not the most supportive, not many parents help the children at home, thus, this children lack limits and positive feedback from their families. Then we have other children with special needs, those are the most complicated to integrate.

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I think diversity is present in all classrooms in the world. In many cases we have children whose family background is not the most supportive, not many parents help the children at home, thus, this children lack limits and positive feedback from their families. Then we have other children with special needs, those are the most complicated to integrate.

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Diversity is always a challenge,  everyday we as teachers have to deal with different people with different learning styles and psychological burdens.
I usually work with different strategies to help engage all types of learning styles, but it's getting more difficult everyday. We have too many children and not enough support from the society we live in. I always try to work with the class teacher so we have the same rules, for example.
Veronica M. Rodriguez

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Diversity is always present in my classroom since we receive students from different cultures, educational backgrounds. It's a great challenge to know what tools we should be able to provide to reach all the students needs, to make them comfortable and create a good atmosphere for learning. To start with, it is essential that the teacher know and listen carefully to what students express, what they feel in the class as individuals and with their mates and what  their expectations in the course are. With this information, you can cater for children with learning difficulties or enhance your classes taking into account values or different learning styles.

MARÍA GABRIELA SORS

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Diversity is in every single classroom because of the simple fact that classrooms are just like that. People from different backgrounds and with different opportunities come to our classes. I teach adults at primary and secondary state schools and it is really a challenge. I try to meet the needs of my students by using different types of levels in the activities we use and I do my best to expose them to all kind of learning styles.

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Diversity is in every single classroom because of the simple fact that classrooms are just like that. People from different backgrounds and with different opportunities come to our classes. I teach adults at primary and secondary state schools and it is really a challenge. I try to meet the needs of my students by using different types of levels in the activities we use and I do my best to expose them to all kind of learning styles.

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Maria Jose Rodriguez

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I think diversity is always present when we think of cultural differences and multilevel classrooms. There are also students with special needs. I try to use music, instruction flashcards,  visuals ( for example I use an arrow made of cardboard to show where we are in the routine ( hello song, weather chant, copybook work). I also create adapted worksheets. However, I am not so familiar with digital tools I can use for activities for autism or learning differences. In my experience, these students enjoy working with the interactive whiteboard . It would be great to gather some ideas from the group in this course!
M. I. Eugenia Alvarez Orieta

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Teaching a foreign language is not an easy task nowadays. In my lessons my students have diffferent social backgrounds, different linguistic skills, different levels of attention and special educational needs as well as different learning styles and interests. Before the quarantine, I inluded the use of computer games, videos and apps to help my students. I adapted their activities, the number of activities and the contents. But now, during this quarantine it is quite difficult to continue integrating these students in my language classrooms because my students can not help each other and I can not be next to them helping. Working with heterogenous classes is a challenge but since the quarantine started, it has been more challenging.

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I think that diversity is present in our classrooms, the point is what teachers do .What strategies do we use? Do we take into account the interests,feelings,different cultures of our students?
We generally teach in a way that our students don't recognize. We've got an ideal representation of how our students should learn and that's the problem.
I think we have to deconstruct our daily practices in order to create an inclusive classroom.
Marcela Karina Scalora

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I have always have different kind of students. I have three groups and one or two of them includes students who require special attention. Generally, I try to use those students who have a ´higher level´ as tutors of those who needs more help. If a student is good with technology I ask him/her to help ME with my PC, Ask those who need to move constantly are asked to clean the board or deliver books etc. As regards language activities and games I´ve noticed I need some Ideas from other teachers !

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Despite the fact that I don´t have too much experience as a teacher, being inclusive in my teaching includes two actions: to know students’ perspectives and add their voices to my class.
Creating an inclusive classroom environment, students will need to reflect on themselves and how their lives influence their interests and career choice.
First, I need to understand and become aware of my own cultural values, beliefs, attitudes and judgments. This is a big point to bear in mind when interacting with students from different cultural backgrounds. These values and beliefs shape my perceptions, they define the way I see the world. From that point on, I want to ensure my classroom is welcoming in a respectful and safe environment providing students with a variety of opportunities to share what they know.

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I teach in kindergarten, diversity is part of our class, as it´s part of the world. It´s well known that The younger we are, the les we judge our Friends. I think Young learners don´t see this “diversity” in a bad way as adults generally do.

In my experience, When your are Young these differences between friends make you want to play more, to know more, t see what the others can do and to share what you are able to do.

I think Teachers should be able to deal with these “diversities” in order to take advantage of it, in a way they don´t become a problem for the class.

An example of it is to organise the class in groups mixing these “abilities” so they can work in cooperation, this is something that I do in my classes. It´s also important the can use different tools, and if it´s possible that they can choose the materials (that makes the activity more interesting and challenging). Maybe some kids can read, let them “read”, others maybe enjoy colouring, and others may enjoy moving/jumping/speaking. When you teach you must be able to find what they love so they can improve on that, and the share with the resto f the class. When they feel confident they encourage the rest of their mates to do what each of them can do!. It´s contagious it works, they wait for the next class to show you what they´ve learnt, or what their Friends know! they even Will tell you what they want to learn!

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Diversity is present in my classrooms in the different levels of attention, learning styles and cultural differences. In this last case, I refer to students who never learnt English at school because they come from neighboring countries and they only speak Spanish and Guarani. To make things worse, they enrolled in the last year of high school.

All that represents a big challenge since it is not easy to teach the students who misbehave or easily get bored because they do not like the activities, because I am not satisfying their learning styles or because they simply do not understand a single word. What I do to face all these difficulties, I talk to other colleagues to ask for some help or clues as Marina Marquez does. I also readapt the activities, look for other resources that the students feel more attracted to and try to be patient. Sometimes this is very tiring and implies a lot of extra work.

Last but not least, I always try to do my best to keep them motivated.

Alejandra Gargiulo.

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As my coleagues have pointed out, diversity is always present in the classroom.  We have students from different countries, with very different cultural backgrounds, different types of families or from foster homes. We have students with different educational needs, which in my case I try to tackle by  appealing to different teaching resources: TPR, games, songs, stories and more traditional material. I admit I do not adapt all the material for those kids who need more help, but I do pay more attention to them and I try different explanations so that they can do the activies. In many cases I demand different oucomes from different kids: for example, one of my students is very good in his speaking skills but he cannot put his ideas across when it comes to writing, so in his case he usually does some exercises orally with me.

Sharon Hara Duck

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Sometimes diversity can affect or disrupt the learning process. There are usually around 35 students in my classes. This means different backgrounds, learning styles, attitudes towards the subject and questions of gender an sexuality. Then, a wide range of strategies are needed to benefit students. Resorting to songs, presentations, stories , videos or movies for debate and /or analysis has worked out as this , can help students feel comfortable and create a safe and respectful environment to be themselves.

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Diversity is present in very different ways at my classroom and it’s a huge challenge for me. Students have different backgrounds, different economic and social realities. I work in a public university system which is not prepared to be inclusive at all. In fact, it’s the opposite. Due to this situation few people with special needs attend our classes. We had two years ago a student on a wheelchair, and he simply couldn’t arrive to the class because the classroom had no elevators. (Of course we changed the classroom). We also had students that have special education needs and the program is not prepared to include them. Our subjects have a workshop format so our classes are more relaxed and versatile than a regular one. We have no way to contact the student family, so we can't ask them how we can help them. We try to do our best to help them and “adapt” the content, and often it’s ok in educational terms, but that content adaptation takes a lot of time and a lot of “head to head” interaction with the student. This often forces them to make contact with the professors, but it also reinforces the segregation with their peers. In my point of view, the most difficult thing to accomplish is the “real” inclusion, the inclusion with the rest of the class.
S Cecilia Paviolo

(Ps: I’m not an English teacher, and I don’t teach in schools yet!)

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As it has been mentioned, diversity is present in every classroom and of course, in the EFL classroom too. They go from children who need the constant support of a special teacher to children who don't respect the limits (because they get easily bored or they cannot focus) and misbehave.
Diversity is always a challenge because it embraces every aspect that make us unique.
I always try different ways to approach the children and different activities until I know what they like best or they respond best. I also ask the teacher for some clues and support.

Marina Marquez

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As everybody says, diversity is present in every classroom, because everybody is different. We also have diversity in this course, because we have different realities and ways of thinking. Nowadays, it is not a challenge this diversity, we are getting accustomed to this reality but it is really necessary to be constantly actualized with different tools and ideas to have successful classes for every student.

MARIA HAPANOWICZ

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Teaching children with diverse backgrounds and abilities is a challenge. It is important to work with colleges and families to find the best tools to help our students. It is not an easy task, we have large classes and we may feel overworked, but it is not a lot of work. We need to manage the differences among our students by recognizing theeir strengths  weaknesses and adapt the curriculum to fit our child´s abilities and provide a good quality education for all

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As most of the teachers have said, diversity is a real challenge nowadays. It´s not easy to work with these ideas when there are some conditions like suitable resources, amount of students, uncomfortable classrooms and so on that can´t be found at schools. That is why it´s very important that teachers can get enough tools to put into practice to help our students to face the school paths. Most of the time we work with integration but not inclusion becouse of the reasons I´ve mentioned before.
Edith Montenegro

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I think diversity is sometime more explicit in the EFL classroom because we add the "language" barrier to all the other factors. All our students have special needs, but we do not think of them in term of "special needs" as long as they adapt to our way of teaching. The problem I see is that, first, we don't know about different situation and how to face them. And then, in general we deal with such a number of students that it is impossible to design plans that cater for all their needs. On the positive side, I think the more we learn about diversity, the easier it is to include different strategies in our lesson plans.

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I think diversity is sometime more explicit in the EFL classroom because we add the "language" barrier to all the other factors. All our students have special needs, but we do not think of them in term of "special needs" as long as they adapt to our way of teaching. The problem I see is that, first, we don't know about different situation and how to face them. And then, in general we deal with such a number of students that it is impossible to design plans that cater for all their needs. On the positive side, I think the more we learn about diversity, the easier it is to include different strategies in our lesson plans.

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Diversity is a challenge and a responsibility that all teachers should be aware of. It’s important not to ignore, the fact that society is diversified and our class is a reflection of that. We can benefit from this, and transform it as a tool, to ampliate our knowledge and educate about other cultures, religions, disabilities, etc as a topic that will be always freely open for a conversation in class. Because how the phrase says, “ a person fears the unknown” and this is one of the reasons that cause rejection. We must provide a secure and comfortable environment that will allow students, improve their learning and own confidence to express themselves. Guzman johanna

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EFL is definitely present in my classroom in the variety of language, skills, abilities and experiences, in every child and in every family. We are all different. I try to teach from the diversity but I think I need more strategies and ways to concrete it. One of my students has a integrative teacher who helps him to participate in different activities and calms him when he has calms him when he can't express what is happening to him with words and use his body to express that feeling. It’s too important to work together when we have a integrative teacher in our classrooms.

We have to work from diversity because we are all different. Inclusion is the answer.

Vanina Peralta.

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 I think that diversity is always present in every single class,  and it is always  a challenge to every teacher. I have children with different backgrounds, cultures, emotions, ways of learning, and also children with special needs. I try to involve everyone in our class by offering multiple  types of activities, from games to relaxation periods, visual aids(posters, flashards, videos, etc), routines to enhance their confidence, listening, writing and speaking activities,  and also by paying attention to their emotions and feelings every day. 

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 I think that diversity is always present in every single class,  and it is always  a challenge to every teacher. I have children with different backgrounds, cultures, emotions, ways of learning, and also children with special needs. I try to involve everyone in our class by offering multiple  types of activities, from games to relaxation periods, visual aids(posters, flashards, videos, etc), routines to enhance their confidence, listening, writing and speaking activities,  and also by paying attention to their emotions and feelings every day. 

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Romina Del Vecchio

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Diversity is present in my classrooms mainly because there are many students in the class, around 30, who learn at a different pace and have different backgrounds and family histories.
I have students with PDD, AS, Down syndrome and dyslexia, for whom I adapt the material and the tests, but I always wonder if I’m doing the best for them or if there is another way to do it. Generally the EOE helps the teachers with the adaptation and communication with families, but with English is not that easy since it is an additional barrier.
Natalia Riera

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Diversity is present in many ways in our class. For example, children who misbehave, children who get bored because some activities are too easy or difficult for them, children that need special support or maybe their families are not supportive enough, so we sometimes feel we can't cope with everything.
Of course it is a challenge because we have different groups each one with specific characteristics.

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I think diversity is present in every group of people but, sometimes differences are so big that it is very difficult to divide among students even more if they are adults.

In my experience, I try to make eye contact with the student and show the exercise by myself. It takes me longer than with the others and, in many cases I have been looked at badly which made me feel very uncomfortable.

Belen Castro Aranda

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Diversity is present in my classroom as in many others, this year I've only been with my students in front of the classroom one week before the "cuarentena" began. But last year I realised that they faced some difficulties with some materials, for example texts, they couldn't complete the reading tasks, so I tried to make them work in pairs of groups, I presented vocabulary or key words previously in an easier activity, so that they could recongnise them later.

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Diversity is present in my classroom as in many others, this year I've only been with my students in front of the classroom one week before the "cuarentena" began. But last year I realised that they faced some difficulties with some materials, for example texts, they couldn't complete the reading tasks, so I tried to make them work in pairs of groups, I presented vocabulary or key words previously in an easier activity, so that they could recongnise them later.

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It is a challenge because sometimes you don't have the enough time to work with one by one student. Or the school doesn't have the facilities to incorporate technology in the classes.

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Hello! I can see two different kinds of diversity in my class.

First, some students study English with private teachers or in institutes, others are repetears from bilingual schools but most students are afraid of the language: they don’t trust in their previous knowledge, don’t even realize of the transparency of some words with the same meaning so they fall in that easy expression “Miss, I don´t understand anything”. They neither try to face any worksheet. In this case, the strategies that I choose are to work with different worksheets for the same topic and encourage students with more experience on learning English to help students who are afraid of the language.

Then, some students have computers and others only cellphones. Most students have a lot of experience on playing video games but they don’t even know how to attach a file to a message to send their homework. The strategies here will depend on the available resources of each school. Thank God all the schools where I work have free access to the Internet so I can help students to develop some TICs skills on their cellphones or computers. Or I ask some support to those who have more experience on TICs to help their own classmates or me (and I sometimes update my TICs knowledge in this way).

Elena Salomón.

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Diversity has always been present in my classrooms: students with different cultural and social background, interests, needs, levels of attention and linguistic skills, etc and it has always represented a challenge which is increasing as years pass by. I try to include as many approaches as possible taking into account the different learning styles. The activities I plan and prepare include the four skills and I try to include the use of technology whenever possible. A strategy that has helped me a lot is making students work in pairs or groups. Sometimes, I also assign roles to the students: helpers, secretaries, etc. 

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Diversity has always been present in my classrooms: students with different cultural and social background, interests, needs, levels of attention and linguistic skills, etc and it has always represented a challenge which is increasing as years pass by. I try to include as many approaches as possible taking into account the different learning styles. The activities I plan and prepare include the four skills and I try to include the use of technology whenever possible. A strategy that has helped me a lot is making students work in pairs or groups. Sometimes, I also assign roles to the students: helpers, secretaries, etc. 

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Dora Karina Mussi

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Diversity is present in the form of students from different countries, provinces and previous knowledge. Diversity is sometimes challenging, I trie to differentiate the task so that everybody can turn out it. I truly try to have a fluent communication with their families, so they don’t find surprising if the students don’t get good outcomes.

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Diversity is present in the form of students from different countries and provinces, also students’ previous knowledge. Diversity is often challenging, since there are types of diversity we can’t see. I usually try to differentiate the task so that everybody can turn it out, I truly try to have a fluent communication with their families, so that they don’t find surprising if the students don’t get good outcomes.

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We all seem to agree that our classes are diverse. Students come from different cultural backgrounds, they have had different access to technology and so to information, sometimes, they have special needs and so on. I teach English level 1 in the area of adults and adolescents and no one student is similar to the other. Some have had contact with the language at school, some have studied English before but they are always 'beginners', some don't even know the very basics such as numbers one, two three. One thing I do, is try to focus on lowering the anxiety levels, by making students help each other, and making corrections as a whole class activity, so that the students who couldn't do all the exercises at least can copy from the blackboard the answers.

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Diversity in my classes is expressed through students from different backgrounds, different levels of the languages, special educational and emotional needs. In my own experience it is a real challenge dealing with students that behave in an aggressive way. I always try to have a variety of activities and I include TIC in my classes, and it has been really helpful.  But I have to be honest, sometimes it gets really hard dealing with students who can’t stay in class, o start shouting o running out of nowhere.

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Diversity is a great opportunitie to develop talents´s teacher to courage students and improve themselves in their hole life.

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Diversity is a great opportunitie to develop talents´s teacher to courage students and improve themselves in their hole life.

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Diversity in my classrooms is present on an everyday basis. Nowadays, diversity is the norm, as everybody learns in a different way and has special needs. I have to cope with students from other countries, as well as students from different parts of the country. They are not always literate, or barely are. In the past, I also had to teach to students within the autism spectrum, hyperactive disorder and dyslexia.

This diversity, more often than not, represents a rather difficult challenge in the planning of my lessons. To overcome this difficulty, I try to work side by side with the grade teacher or my EFL colleagues through project work; this helps me integrate diversity, too, into the planning process, bringing new ideas from other peers.

To accomplish this task, I make use of the games and awareness-raising activities of my own creation and the ones that the class book provides – fortunately, some of these books are also aware of diversity. I design lessons with differentiated instructions, base on stutents’ learning styles. Visual and auditory aids, board games, hands-on activities and online interactive games and worksheets are a great help to enhance motivation and as scaffolding for the class.

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In my class, diversity is always present. Apart from the fact that all students have different learning styles, in some groups there are students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, students who suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and students whose first language is not Spanish. Having students with special learning needs is always challenging; you need to adapt the way you present content, think of class dynamics and evaluate.

I think of different roles within the class, such as attendance taker, board cleaner helper, etc., so that all students can have an opportunity to participate adopting different roles during one class. I also include short games with visuals and music, puppets, bottle caps and realia. This helps to develop a bond with all learners and involve them in class work.

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ntenI think that we cannot say we don't have diversity in our classroom. Students are all different and we plan our classes  in order to answer to their needs.
However,  sometimes I feel overwhelmed,  We need more training and also, time to think strategies to help students to learn. It is challenging.   We have ups and downs. You might be frustrating.
In my opinion, group work is a necessity. Counseling is needed. We haven't been trained to teach in a classroom with disruptive behavior.
I try to present the same content in different ways, and also, I let them choose which activities to complete.
I know that we need to change our vision of teaching and learning, which is a very difficult thing to achieve.

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I think all classrooms present a diversity of students. And it is a challenge for teachers. In my case I work in a school in Los Perales, In mataderos, with students from very different backgrounds and experiences. Most families are absent and students have to do it "Alone". It is a challenge in the EFL classroom because you have different levels of proficiency and you, as a teacher, need to give an answer or a solution to all the students in the classroom because all of they Must have the same opportunities and school and teacher should adapt to the students need, not the other way round. So we must change they way we perceive education in order to fulfil all our students needs.

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Diversity is present in my class (and in all the teacher's classrooms) and it represents a great challenge. The more  aware of diversity we are, the more chances we will have to "include" all the students in the process of learning. The main difficulty I find in the EFL class is the disparate background knowledge children bring with them. To face this issue, I make use of visual aids and most of the time I exaggerate my face gestures and the tones of my voice :) It usually works!

The difference in personalities is another aspect where diversity is reflected. I make an effort to make the students feel  important to me and to the whole class, no matter how shy, talkative, quick or slow they may be.
Bye!

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Diversity is reflected in my classes by many children coming from different cultural, ethnic and family backgrounds as well as by an increasing number of students with special needs. This certainly represents a challenge because I frequently feel I have neither the tools nor the answers to help them learn. Up to now, I´ve only prepared differentiated activities according to their abilities, but I find it impossible to do it for every lesson or for every activity within a lesson. I often feel overwhelmed. I also try to cater for the different learning styles by bringing music, videos or games to the class.

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Diversity is indeed present in every EFL class. In my classes it was in the shape of different learning styles, linguistic abilities, motivation, needs, etc. It does represent a challenge because most of the time we have lots of classes and lots of students and it is difficult to take all of these differences into account, while also doing paperwork, attending meetings, exams, etc. The tools I use mostly consist of differentiation and variation of activities and group work.

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Diversity is present in every classroom. Teachers have to deal with different factors: culture, age, ability, etc. It teaches students how to live and work in a society where everyone is unique. It helps to connect students with diverse  backgrounds and habilities.

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In my opinion, diversity is  present  in every classroom. I believe that as the student population changes,so do classrooms.
As teachers we need to rethink traditional and common teaching methods which are not inclusive at all.
I work in a private school ,there are  40 students in each form so I always try to start the class with a game.We also work on projects,we sing songs,and have fun.

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I think there is diversity in every classroom and what a good thing it is! The classes and the different groups are enriched by diversity, all trying to learn from the other and to embrace their peers in their diversity. It can sometimes be challenging for the teacher to assist students in this process of acceptance with different group activities in which we not only teach English but also work on their relationship as members of a multicultural and diverse world.

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Diversity is always present in the classroom. My students come from different backgrounds, they are new in the country, they learn differently, their families cannot help, they delay school things, they have problems at home and so on. These aspects certainly rpresent a challenge, because we have to deal, not only with the "educational part" but also with the "human part". My students are children. I care for them, and I also delay education if they need me in some other way. When teaching, the tool that I most use, is trying to identify their learning intelligence. Once I know how they learn, I do my best to cater for those learning strategies: music, games, visual aids, etc. It is not easy regarding we have 45 minutes. But I try to do my best.

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Diversity is always present in the classroom. My students come from different backgrounds, they are new in the country, they learn differently, their families cannot help, they delay school things, they have problems at home and so on. These aspects certainly rpresent a challenge, because we have to deal, not only with the "educational part" but also with the "human part". My students are children. I care for them, and I also delay education if they need me in some other way. When teaching, the tool that I most use, is trying to identify their learning intelligence. Once I know how they learn, I do my best to cater for those learning strategies: music, games, visual aids, etc. It is not easy regarding we have 45 minutes. But I try to do my best.

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Diversity has always existed in the classroom, what is different is that nowadays something is being done or has to be done about it.
Many times parents or carers don't know or don't want to recognise that there is something different with their kid. This situations don't make things easier, however, teacher manage to help these kids with different strategies. I think it's essential to talk to other teacher and see how to help them. What I mostly do is to include all the students through different activities throughout the class: some enjoy reading, others singing and dancing, coming to the front and do an activity on the blackboard. And another crucial element that we don't need to leave behind is time. We need to give time to other students, all of them have different learning paces.

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I find diversity present just having 20 students per class! It`s obvious that students have thair own way of learning.  Diversity does represent a challenge in my classes since I need to cater for all their needs as far as I can. In general I try to plan for activities that a varied and focus on different abilities. I try to take into account the different styles of learning. Auditory, kynesthetic and visual

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I find diversity present just having 20 students per class! It`s obvious that students have thair own way of learning.  Diversity does represent a challenge in my classes since I need to cater for all their needs as far as I can. In general I try to plan for activities that a varied and focus on different abilities. I try to take into account the different styles of learning. Auditory, kynesthetic and visual

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Laura M. Zurriable

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As my teacher experience widens through time and contexts, I have noticed that diversity has many different shapes. However, the challenge has shifted from thinking how to include some kids to my class to thinking how I include myself in the class. Music and games are a must in my lesson plans, but sometimes these tools may disturb some kids who need the class to be as silent as possible.

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vary How is “diversity” present in your EFL class?
I agree with my colleagues that there has always been diversity in the classrooms, and in the last few years there has also been a process of integration through which students with special needs who were previously sent to different educational centres now go to school with all the rest of the kids. This I think has been a step forward towards inclusion, but we are not quite there yet. Because I believe it has been done before getting the teachers and other professionals ready. So there is diversity in the classroom but every teacher had to cope with it doing their best, and the results depend on the ability of each teacher to cater for different needs.
In my classrooms there is diversity in many ways: social and cultural background, learning styles, mixed-ability, tastes and interests, language level of course.

Does “diversity” represent a challenge in your EFL class?
Absolutely.

What tools/strategies do you use to face the challenge of “diversity” in your EFL class?
I try to shift the types of materials I use to present the contents, vary the group/ classroom arrangements....