A short list of handy-dandy brain breaks we've been doing and have liked

Brain breaks are an incredibly useful tool in the classroom, especially (god sixth period, or first period) when your kids are full or fidgety - and you can do them target language. Here's a short list of ones I've done so far this year that have worked for me. Let me know if there are any you do, too, that work, and I'll put 'em on the list!

Angeli et Diaboli

I got this years ago from a workshop with Jason Fritze. It's the Peruvian (?! Jason, correct me!) version of tag, I think.

I own several giant white boards, so I use one of them for my demonstration, but you could just as easily use paper. I write on it:

Uses for Small White Boards

Here are a collection of posts I've made on what to do with small white boards if you have them, plus a little extra!

Things That Foreign Language Teachers Need To Do More

There are a lot of things that push us to get better as language teachers, and many of them are things we forget we can do, or forget to incorporate on a regular basis. The ideas listed below are either things I've done to great success or have seen other people do with great success, and that I think really need to happen more.