Fostering Responsibility and Engagement Through Student Jobs

As I took a deep dive into Comprehensible Input (CI), I explored amazing blogs from other CI teachers. I loved learning new acquisition driven instruction ideas and tested different strategies, tweaking and adapting them to suit my context as a Japanese teacher in a rural Australian school. 

One such strategy was Classroom or Student Jobs. When I first introduced "Student Jobs" in my classroom, I really wasn't sure what to expect, or how it would be received. It took a little planning to set up,  however these small, purposeful roles were worth their weight in gold. I pleasantly discovered they were not just an effective classroom management tool—they also greatly support the language acquisition process. The best bit? Student jobs fostered responsibility and engagement, helping ALL students feel more connected to the language. Better still-this was the case for students on both sides of the academic pendulum. I could use Student Jobs to extend and challenge 'fast processing' students and select specific jobs for bouncy students who needed more grounding.

So student jobs became an essential tool for both managing my classroom and enhancing the language acquisition process in my Japanese lessons.

In this webinar, I share how these strategies have worked for me and how you can implement them in your own classroom to empower your students.