Activity 1

The Didactic Game

Summary

Aracely Caballero

4-766-1410

The Didactic Game It is a participatory technique of teaching and the game is a naturally happy activity the fully develops the personality. It is a pedagogical activity and it meets the intellectual, practical, communicative and value elements in a playful way.

Use games in the classroom are so important in building a relationship not just between you and your student, but between the students themselves. Nothing makes for a better classroom environment than everyone liking each other. And it is easy to like someone you are playing with. You want them to trust you to respond to their needs, you want them to get along with each other, and just as importantly, you want to have fun in class! These are hours of your life too, so you might as well have fun while doing it.

Games can be used to warm up the class before your lesson begins, during the lesson to give students a break when you’re tackling a tough subject, or at the end of class when you have a few minutes left to kill. There are literally hundreds, probably thousands, of games that you can play with your students.

Benefits of teaching games:

·         More motivation

·         Controlled competitiveness

·         Strategy simulator

·         Peer positivity

·         Smaller stress

·         Mighty memory

·         Class Cooperation

·         Alert attention

·         Friendly fun

·         New knowledge

Use this technique contribute to the development of the personality formation of children and adolescent, mainly in their interpersonal relationships and friendship through the educational systems.