The teacher should pay special attention to creating a friendly and psychologically comfortable atmosphere. Students should feel more relaxed during the extracurricular activities than in the classroom (of course, while avoiding chaos). The role of the teacher is changing: not a strict supervisor that constantly evaluates, but a like-minded person who, together with children, is engaged in discovering new knowledge about the world around them. Some activities may cause students to have noisy outbursts of positive emotions. This is a good sign that makes the teacher realize that the activity has not left the children indifferent. The main thing is to not have this turn into a disciplinary problem that prevents the child from moving forward.
Sometimes children express a desire to repeat a game or a task they liked. How should a teacher react in such situations? One of the main principles for organizing extracurricular activities is that students’ interests are paramount. Therefore, if they want to repeat an experiment or play a game they like once again, the teacher should not refuse, and should not worry that they will not have time to “get through” the entire proposed scenario in 45 minutes. Getting through everything is not the primary goal for the class. One of the main tasks for the teacher is to create lasting, positive motivation, and maintain interest in learning German. And to resolve this, it is necessary to exclude stress, negative emotions, situations of failure, and boredom. If some activities were particularly well-liked, and students want to repeat them, a teacher should not be afraid to “waste” time on this. That will bring more benefit than if the teacher succeeds in going over everything, and students will remain disappointed that their opinion is not taken into account at all in the class.
