Being emotionally intelligent can help us regulate our emotions, make decisions, focus on priorities, or be more resilient <3
Activities for emotionally intelligent classrooms (since 1993) can be found here as well as accommodations and proposals for more inclusive classrooms.
Gran got me started When I was at college I used to spend marvellous summers in the UK, the country I fell in love with when I was learning their language. Among the million things I liked to [...]
Extracurricular activities can be excellent opportunities for students to learn foreign languages in less formal contexts. It is common practice to organise end-of-course meals or celebrations as [...]
This is just a variation of «Indian secrets» when we take the opportunity to exchange good reads with classmates. A good activity to close-up the first term, for instance, before school breaks up [...]
An ESL teacher for absolute beginners with an emotional intelligence approach will hopefully find this ice-breaker useful when preparing in-class activities for their newly grouped students. What [...]
Connection before correction I have chosen to use this wise phrase by Jane Nelsen and Lynn Lott as the headline of my blog entry today: giving feedback to students. Time is golden, no need to say [...]
Exam stress can be dreadful The times I have heard good hardworking students say this, is innumerable: «after all that work my mind just went totally blank and that was the end of it!» Which is [...]
Music can evoke emotions You can actually change your students mood by just playing the right music. Perhaps something lively for after lunch lessons or end-of-day sessions. Or maybe some [...]
Experiential stays Long experience as a teacher and most importantly as a long-life student, tells me that whatever one learns through practical instances gets registered best. Even more so if it [...]
I have selected here a list of movies you can base your activities on. They are all representative of emotional intelligence or Mindfulness. Needless to say you may prefer your own choice of [...]
«Your position in the family» is a multipurpose activity for B1 students to practice speaking skills at the time students learn new personality adjectives. The final result is always quite [...]
