EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

PUZZLE FIVE: Well, if you are reading this all previous puzzles must have been completed. Congratulations! But, wait, your gamemaster must give you a “snake” hiding eight words connected to crime [...]

MAY YOU HAVE A NICE DAY On Valentine’s Day we are all invited to show Love of any kind really, don’t you agree? After all, love is in the air! When I have done this activity in class I have [...]

Give thanks and eat pie   Most students will have heard of Thanksgiving and most probably watched movies related to this celebration. They would know about eating turkey and the traditional [...]

Sing along! I am sharing today this song that was once part of the Christmas workshops prepared by both my group and myself. The song chosen for this workshop was Do they know it’s [...]

I find this is a nice and easy way to close up an activity. Like favourite end-of-term dynamics, lesson or anecdote. End-of-course positives and negatives, or proposals and suggestions. Also good [...]

Which one are you?     This is an activity I experienced myself as a participant in Positive Discipline + Training Courses. The group dynamics had an impact on us participants when we [...]

With the update of the CEFR bringing new referential areas like mediation and the rise of a new emerging concept of what it is to be part of a team or what it is to get your ideas across, the [...]

someone in your family, someone you get on really well with, someone quite unusual, eccentric or annoying, someone you admire   When it comes to family and friends students are always [...]

 «Ei» will help you choose the best response to any given situation   For a long time we have experienced how our thoughts and emotions may ask for different things and this has led us to [...]

My educational philosophy is based on mutual respect in the classroom. On a teacher-students basis and on a student-student basis as well. The teacher that acts as the person guiding the rest of [...]