Before you can decide which programs and activities to provide for your Excelling Students, you will need to analyze your classroom setup.  Only then will you be able to proceed with the appropriate programs for your Excelling Students.  

• Do you have only one or two Excelling Students in your regular English class?  

• Are you teaching a small group of up to 5 students in a 'partani' setting?  

• Is there a fair size group of Excelling Students in your class, enabling you to consider them as a definite group (maybe a quarter or a half of the complete class)?  

• Are you looking for activities for a whole Excelling Students class?

There is such a range of students who fit into the category of Excelling Students.  They include those who made Aliya a month or two previously, those who were born and bred here in Israel, and anything in-between.  The concept of Native English Speaker is so wide that it has become understood to mean any students who speak or understand English at the level of a person who resides in an English-speaking country.  This definition causes a number of discrepancies in the classroom.  A child may have been on Shlichut with his parents and learned English to a high level, but not know how to read or write at that level.  On the other hand, a student may understand English at a very high level from having spent the Corona years watching TED talks in English ... or any other reason!