| Body | This short (roughly 10-15 minute) activity is proficiency-agnostic and was created to help learners reflect on their strengths. It would be useful when starting a new school year or grading period. Instructions indicate implementation during group time, but this activity would be wonderful in a flipped context. For example, learners could complete Steps 1-5 (other than group shares) at home and share their visual reminders (Step 6) in class as a warm-up activity the following day.
Learning Outcome(s):
Learners will be able to:
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as a language learner.
- Use their strengths to set goals for handling challenges as they arise.
Mode(s): Not applicable
Materials: Pay Attention to Your Strengths Video, Strength Inventory, a video of errors in a domain relevant to curricular needs
Procedure:
- Show learners one to two minutes of video with a lot of mistakes in whatever domain is culturally appropriate and aligns with curricular needs. For example, if studying sports, you might show them a video similar to this one in the target language.
- As a group, talk about how one should react to those mistakes in order to be successful. Then, show learners the Pay Attention to Your Strengths Video.
- Provide learners with the Strength Inventory. Ask that they complete Step 1 individually.
- As a whole group, share the strengths that learners identified.
- Give learners five to seven minutes to complete Steps 2 and 3 on the Strength Inventory. In these steps, they will describe a moment in which they made a mistake in the target language (big or small) and how their strengths could have helped them respond. They will use this reflection to set a goal for responding to similar situations in the future.
- Give learners three minutes to complete Step 4 on the Strength Inventory. In this phase, they will create a visual reminder of the goal identified in the previous step.
Notes:
- Remember to revisit learners' goals with them periodically!
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