Joy in school

Yesterday I read a phrase by Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990) that is: “…flow learning, he defines it as the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it at even great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it…” I related to one of my experiences in primary. I was dealing with the parts of the animals and I had to test communicative. So I adapted some pictures that were on the internet to the reality of my class, for the Ss. to describe it. The pictures were animals doing human things. They were so nice and attractive that the students were really involved in the activity and they worked brilliantly. So I think that is our responsibility to create this atmosphere to learn. Because they were working as if they were playing, and the spontaneous speaking was great. We need to rethink how and what we teach. The power is in our hands; help your students find the pleasure in learning. 

These are some images that I used. 

• Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow. New York: Harper Perennial.