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Work with your problems and your stress.

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 Moving on is a short speaking activity about a problem in the past. Notice that since this problem was in the past, it is something the student has moved through. So it is actually a success story.  (10 minutes for happiness)


Proverbs and aphorisms are one way people learn to deal with proverbs and stress.  Good advice introduces some proverbs and quotes. Students rate them. 


Make is stronger is a student-to-student dictation activity where they take positive sentences and make them stronger by adding adjectives. 

A busy teacher's guide -- to chillin'  At a teachers' conference recently, someone asked me how to deal with all the pressure and stress we have to deal with as teachers.  I mentioned a few things I do but it occurred to me that an "menu" approach might be more useful. Enjoy.   And from my friend Tim Murphey, HERE are the Mayo Clinic's "8 ways to reduce Stress."


Another one from the "that's a little weird" category.   Positive self-talk massage circles.  Students choose a positive self-talk statement that they like. Then the circles move. They massage the neck/shoulders of the person in front of them. Great for lowering stress, so I use this as a warm-up on test days. 

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