Tech Talk: Using Emojis in Your Teaching

Using Emojis in your teaching

Use Emojis in writing prompts Start with a sentence and a few emojis and have students use their imagination to craft a story based on the emojis. For example:

It was eight o’clock and I heard a knock on the door....

Put the horse, crazy face, thumbs up and pizza emoji below the sentence Use Emojis for Vocabulary or Foreign Language Associating pictures students are familiar with and connecting them to new words in English or a foreign language they’re learning can be helpful. Emojis can help update your classroom and make your teaching more relatable to your students. Use them for new words you’re teaching younger students or foreign languages.

Use Emojis as an exit ticket When you want a quick evaluation about your lesson, you can ask simple questions like ‘What did you enjoy most about the lesson?’ or add some emojis to the mix. This works especially well for

younger students. Here’s a sample that you can easily replicate: