In this blog they offer advice and tips to English language teachers, this includes English as a second language teachers as well as English as a foreign language. In this post a teacher in Japan posts about the importance of making her lessons fun. She only sees individual students up to 2 hours a week, so she tries to have her lessons stick after they leave her. When she first took her job, all that was given to her was a box of unorganized flash cards. She soon realized how bored this made her students, even the most well behaved students were bored. This inspired her to make a ton of activities. She made a crepe building station where students had to order a crepe from another student. This taught them food and numbers vocabulary. It also had them speaking in full sentences. She goes on further about all of the other activities she created for the students. This goes back to the gamification from the Horizon report. Students actively want to learn if they can have fun while doing it. While her classroom in the beginning sat there bored out of their mind while reciting flashcards they weren't learning much, but now they request to play games that actually teach them more then the flashcards ever taught them. I am completely impressed by the creativity of this teacher, she shows pictures on her blog of all the different activities she created and they are all well crafted. It is also impressive that she did this all without any guidance from her administration.
Early Learners want to play!
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