Affective Teaching

I was doing some research and found this amazing blog called For the love of learning by Joe Bower. I liked it so much that I even sent him a email asking him to recommend me some of his favourite authors. A few minutes later I saw this post by his widow. So sadly he passed away only recently. Some of you may already know him. He was from Canada and had quite alternative views on education. I hope you are interested. http://www.joebower.org/p/abolishing-homework.html

Students react to being called IMPORTANT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFaJdBq78lc

Hi everyone, I would like to share my affective goodbye to my students in the practicum. I chose a special course of students who are in an improvement program because they have repeated course. They can be difficult to handle at times but everything turned out great. I had told them that I had chosen THEM and that I trusted them. These cakes are called "palmeras gigantes" and have become very popular in Spain for parties. One student had said that he would like to have one the last day, and they really deserved it, so I ordered this one with a thank you message. The last day they were doing the exam, and when everyone was finished, I brought it in. They were so excited!! I tought them how to say tablecloth, how to make a toast in English... with orange and pineapple juice. We took photos of the group and the cake... They all came to give me two kisses as we do here, a and then, right before leaving, I said. Just a moment, let me tell you this joke! I put on my sunglasses, an...

Task #1 1. Eyes-closed, each S picks up a card from the deck of fruit names. (5’) 2. Then, the task to do is to imagine that they are that fruit, and to write a small biography, using the simple tense. (20’) E.g.: Hello, my name is Jack, the Lemon (LOVE the actor;-), and this is the story of my life. My dad was a big and bright yellow from a lemon tree in a quiet Andalusian patio in the South of Spain. I was a little seed inside him, that got planted in a small pot. I grew up little by little, then got transplanted to a bigger pot. Then I grew flowers, which the birds loved to visit… 3. When everyone is finished, teacher collects the biographies and reads them out lout. The rest of the students need to guess who wrote each biography (not exchange them, because they might recognize the handwriting). (15’). 4. T then hands the biographies to different SS, who need to write a short continuation to the story, and share it with the rest of the class and give it back to the original writer. ...

Task #3 1. What is the relationship, if any, between affective learning and positive discipline? 2. Shouldn't all teaching be affective by nature? 3. Aren't many teachers affective but they just don't know about it? 4. Is affective learning exactly the same as humanistic learning or are there any differences? 5. Is affective learning included in the curriculum in any country? 6. Is affective learning as we know it only applied to teach a foreign language? 7. How would an affective teacher best deal with a teenager who rejects English altogether ---as I have found during my practicum? 8. What are the best ways to carry out proper differentiation with slow and fast finishers according to affective learning? 9. Should there always be evaluation in affective learning? 10. In compulsory education, would an affective learner fail his/her students or envisage doing without the pass/fail system?.

I just saw this video and I think you would like it very much. GREAT TO MEET YOU ALL! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMeEKBaiPbg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMeEKBaiPbg

Third week assignment. So here are the snakes Sasha and Sushi:-D because they go Shhhhhh. Sasha is the naive one and Sushi is kind of cheeky. I inspired myself on a famous tv show in Spain called El Hormiguero with two similar puppets that are ants and which has even been exported to Argentina and other countries. On the second photo Sacha and Sushi are posing with the whole family: Venus and Blanquito (whitey). I am going to give them to my two private students who are sisters. I hope they will like them!

She is amazing! I would like to share it with you:-D https://youtu.be/hotg2kclmHM

My very first attempt at puppeteering:-D

Hi, everyone. I can't seem to find the exact video we have to watch. Can someone post a link, please? I have seen some other great ones, though;-)

What a great session we had today. I was smiling all the way! These are Max and Venus. Guess who's who!

Task #1 Hello, everyone. This is my activity: Everyday object: Small coloured lunch boxes Goal: To learn positive qualities Target language: Nouns and adjectives Layout: Circle time Instructions: 1. Place pieces of paper with the nouns of qualities inside the coloured boxes and put them inside the circle. 2. Have SS pick each one a box and have them read them in turns. Elicit the meaning of the words and help with the ones they don't know. 3. Then they have to right on the other side of the paper the adjective corresponding to the noun. Eg. love -> loving, lovable. 4. Then in turns SS say the adjectives they have come up with. 5. Lastly, each one could give their box to another student, saying "I would like to give you my box because I think you are very loving", the specific goal here being learning to give and accept compliments and practicing giving and receiving a gift.

This is being a very hard week for me. I am doing my practicum, which means that I have to be with a teacher all the time, but she called in sick three weeks ago and has not come back yet. In public school they take a long time to send a replacement, so I have been teaching on my own, so I have been terribly busy preparing activities for each day, but haven't had time to prepare the 5 official sessions that I need to give in the next two weeks, also because there is nobody to officially watch me teaching. I have been exhausted but at the same time terribly worried but yesterday another teacher offered to watch me if my one does not come back next week, which was a huge relief. Anyway I wanted to explain why I haven't been able to visit the community this week until now. About the photo, the one I would like to post is one that I can't take, because the mother of my private students wouldn't like it. But let me explain the image, please. I give private tuition to two sis...

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Task #2 As I mentioned in a previous comment I fell in love with the language, just as most of you I guess, and I was lucky because my mum was an English teacher who never worked but it meant that I had extra English books and resources at home. For the first years I concentrated on learning until I became fluent, soon I started teaching English as a private tutor to make pocket money, then worked as an au-pair in England, I just wanted to become a translator. I have never stopped studying English but for the last few years I just use it all the time and tend to read in English more than anything for example, hardly ever in Spanish... I just enjoy English so much, for me it is second nature even though I am not a bilingual, I wish I was, but then again maybe I would not love it so much. I used to say that I did not want to stick to Spain or Spanish people:-D. But I haven't studied English for a long time, this is the good thing about being an English student/teacher, that you can j...

Task #1 I understand affective learning as caring and sharing, and showing that you care. I also think that instruction no. 100 "BELIEVE" is the most important one. I see other teacher who stop believing. It is our duty never to lose hope, always keep trying and never giving up on the students. Today in the school where I am doing my practicals I prepared a test to ask the students what a good teacher is for them, how I can become a better teacher and how they can become better students. The most common answer for a good student is one that is funny but also strict. They also said they like to do projects and group work. At the heading I wrote "Your opinion matters to me" and at the end of the 6 questions "Thank you very much for answering". Tomorrow after having read their answers I will thank them again and praise them because they have shown a lot of maturity and many other intelligent responses. This has been my way of practicing affective learning thi...

Hi everyone! I found Juan's page whilst looking for jokes for my private students:-D. I have been a private tutor since I was a teenager, but mainly worked as a translator. Since my dad died two years ago I have felt a shift and I now my dream is to become a full-time teacher. I am currently studying to get the teacher certificate. Affective learning totally resonates with me and I want to dedicate most of my final dissertation to it. I am a huge fan of Gertrude Moscowitz:-D!