Strategic investment is one of the teaching principles advocated in view to language teaching in general and second language acquisition in particular. It entails that the learner can invest time, effort and attention while being engaged into the learning process. Therefore, the learner is not passive; rather is an active participant because of many stratefies he/she can make use of. By this implication, the teacher in turn has to work out these strategies in order to make them fruitful investment.
Our students can reference multiple sources of evidence they use to self-assess their learning progress and plan their next steps. For example, by collecting artifacts to document their learning (make a portfolio for the end of the term), help them set learning goals and continually update them.
Anxiety? Stress? Don't panic, teacher. According to Lyuborimisky (2008:216-231) there are some activities that can help us teachers to live the present of past and future positive emotions that can be implemented with our students in class.
Revive memories of happy past days
We can ask our students to bring back and share those memories that are specially important for them. The feeling of pleasure would increase if, apart from reviving these memories we share them with the others. Happiness is always something good to go back to and for sure this simple excercise will raise the spirits of our class.
Transport yourself to another place
This excercise consists of using your imagination in order to anticipate future events (a trip, a party or any other thing that you are really looking forward to) and take pleasure in the emotion that it provokes us or develop a plan to achieve this goal among other things. Likewise, we can also use this strategy backwards and evoke past memories and transport ourselves to different places and times.
Besides these relaxing activites we can also make use of music in our classroom (at the beggining, end or as a learning tool as well), yoga and games involving movement and contact. Personally, I really like the one called "The bomb" or "hot potatoe". This game is great for reviewing vocabulary of a specific topic and kids just love it. A ball is passed around the class and the student who holds it has to say a word of that topic (i.e. food) before passing it. A 60 seconds countdown is displayed and students cannot repeat the same word. This game is great to let students go of stress and release tension.
Our students can reference multiple sources of evidence they use to self-assess their learning progress and plan their next steps. For example, by collecting artifacts to document their learning (make a portfolio for the end of the term), help them set learning goals and continually update them.
Anxiety? Stress? Don't panic, teacher. According to Lyuborimisky (2008:216-231) there are some activities that can help us teachers to live the present of past and future positive emotions that can be implemented with our students in class.
Revive memories of happy past days
We can ask our students to bring back and share those memories that are specially important for them. The feeling of pleasure would increase if, apart from reviving these memories we share them with the others. Happiness is always something good to go back to and for sure this simple excercise will raise the spirits of our class.
Transport yourself to another place
This excercise consists of using your imagination in order to anticipate future events (a trip, a party or any other thing that you are really looking forward to) and take pleasure in the emotion that it provokes us or develop a plan to achieve this goal among other things. Likewise, we can also use this strategy backwards and evoke past memories and transport ourselves to different places and times.
Besides these relaxing activites we can also make use of music in our classroom (at the beggining, end or as a learning tool as well), yoga and games involving movement and contact. Personally, I really like the one called "The bomb" or "hot potatoe". This game is great for reviewing vocabulary of a specific topic and kids just love it. A ball is passed around the class and the student who holds it has to say a word of that topic (i.e. food) before passing it. A 60 seconds countdown is displayed and students cannot repeat the same word. This game is great to let students go of stress and release tension.
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