NO NEED TO HIDE

Sometimes we, as teachers, forget that every student come to classes with worries, feelings, opinions and a lot of facts that influence their learning. So, I think that the activity of painting masks is excellent to get to know our students, since the very first day, because through it they can express what they feel in a funny, creative and meaningful way. 

Personally I feel very relaxed and confortable with this activity, and I tried to do something different to the rest. I learnt a lot about myself and i could realise that I hardly ever stop to reflect about myself and the things I need or do, because I am always trying to help others, which makes me happy. 

I will apply this activity with all my groups since the very first week of classes. I am thinking about ask them to paint their mask, and hang them in the wall. I think this idea is great because I will be aware of every student context, help them with their situations if needed, keep control on dropping out of classes and at the same time it will be great to decorate the classroom.

Then, I will do the same activity the very last week of classes and get them to compare their advances, the things they learnt during the course, and how they feel now. 


Finally, I also learn that we may do activities that we may think they are not related to language, but it we seek a mean to link them to a specific skill in the language, we can do it and have a very big variety of exercises to apply in classrooms.