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Making Plants Come Alive
Anita Demitroff
  • May 9
  • 4 min

Making Plants Come Alive

With the arrival of Spring, we often cover topics like baby animals and plants. Because these items weave their way into the school...
Tempting Learners Back: A Project Based On Chocolate!
Anita Demitroff
  • Apr 29
  • 5 min

Tempting Learners Back: A Project Based On Chocolate!

By the time our learners reach late Primary and early Secondary, they are bombarded with grammar and the sentence-level drilling that...
Wading into Project-Based Learning for 2030: Where Does Our Waste Water Go?
Anita Demitroff
  • Apr 12
  • 4 min

Wading into Project-Based Learning for 2030: Where Does Our Waste Water Go?

We all know we should give Project-Based Learning (PBL) a go and we all feel the pressing need to cover the 2030 agenda. Here is a...
First Steps in Learning to Learn in Early Primary
Anita Demitroff
  • Mar 28
  • 3 min

First Steps in Learning to Learn in Early Primary

Lots of teachers use animal guessing games in their classes. Here's one for younger learners (5 to 8 years old). It's different to its...
Is your YL lesson well planned? Has it got all the building blocks?
Anita Demitroff
  • Mar 10
  • 3 min

Is your YL lesson well planned? Has it got all the building blocks?

What makes a good lesson plan for our very Young Learners' classes? Teachers new to Pre- and Early Primary have to get their heads around...
All about Experiments: 7 factors to consider
Anita Demitroff
  • Jan 23
  • 4 min

All about Experiments: 7 factors to consider

With their fizzes, bangs and pops, experiments are universally popular. The surprising results of mixing together everyday materials can...
Now You’re Cookin’
Anita Demitroff
  • Jan 7
  • 5 min

Now You’re Cookin’

Cooking activities can play a crucial role in language learning and CLIL. In this post, we look more closely at the benefits. Here are...
Review: "How to Write CLIL Materials," ELT Teacher 2 Writer. Tremendous Insight and a Helping Hand
Anita Demitroff
  • Nov 30, 2021
  • 5 min

Review: "How to Write CLIL Materials," ELT Teacher 2 Writer. Tremendous Insight and a Helping Hand

Working in CLIL can be lonely. You might be the only teacher who has a CLIL class at a school and it can be hard to reach out to your...
Getting from point A to G
Anabel Reis
  • Nov 17, 2021
  • 3 min

Getting from point A to G

Connecting what students are learning to their community and applying what they are learning to real contexts, much like we do in...
Beyond Social Science: Opening up Learners' Worlds
Anita Demitroff
  • Nov 9, 2021
  • 5 min

Beyond Social Science: Opening up Learners' Worlds

Laura was four years old when she first came to our school, which had just been decorated to portray that year’s theme: the Whole World....
Have you ever been put in a box?
Puri Rodríguez
  • Nov 1, 2021
  • 3 min

Have you ever been put in a box?

The other day, when I was trawling the depths of the web for some new ideas to help my students work with the language of speculation, I...
Speak Up in CLIL Science
Anita Demitroff
  • Oct 26, 2021
  • 4 min

Speak Up in CLIL Science

Content-laden subjects like Science often leave little room for extra practice to ensure children can speak about what they are learning....
“Not a Stick”: A Creativity-boosting Activity with More Dash than Cash!
Anita Demitroff
  • Sep 28, 2021
  • 3 min

“Not a Stick”: A Creativity-boosting Activity with More Dash than Cash!

In his video, Changing Education Paradigms, the late Sir Keith Robinson mentioned that as children grow older, they become more rational,...
Popcorn! Boosting Group Dynamics and Creativity in the ELT Classroom
Anita Demitroff
  • Sep 21, 2021
  • 4 min

Popcorn! Boosting Group Dynamics and Creativity in the ELT Classroom

Dee dee dee dee…dee dee dee. Hum the start of "Popcorn," a 1972 hit for Amercian instrumental band, Hot Butter, and almost everyone over...
A school like no other: Gola the Toy Library in Teo (Galicia, NW Spain)
Anita Demitroff
  • Sep 14, 2021
  • 3 min

A school like no other: Gola the Toy Library in Teo (Galicia, NW Spain)

Have you ever heard of an English school with its very own … pig? Porky lives alongside a dog, rabbits and some chickens that hatched in...
EFL and Early Education Teachers: Powerful Project Partners!
Fran Seftel
  • Sep 8, 2021
  • 3 min

EFL and Early Education Teachers: Powerful Project Partners!

I've been teaching young learners for a long time now, but in recent years there has been a significant shift in my approach after I...
What About this One? Finding the Right Picture Books by Ana Demitroff, with Fran Seftel
Ana Demitroff and Fran Seftel
  • Aug 31, 2021
  • 4 min

What About this One? Finding the Right Picture Books by Ana Demitroff, with Fran Seftel

Teachers and parents face the same problem when they look for a book in English. There are so many factors to take into account:...
Jingle Jangle: Developing Higher Order Thinking Skills with Coins
Anita Demitroff
  • Aug 18, 2021
  • 3 min

Jingle Jangle: Developing Higher Order Thinking Skills with Coins

Last week's blog was about going from one world area to another. What better way to represent travel than coins from different...
Memories in a Matchbox to Integrate Social Studies
Margie Marc
  • Aug 9, 2021
  • 4 min

Memories in a Matchbox to Integrate Social Studies

Can you fit your life into a cigar box? Can you imagine leaving home forever, never to return? The Matchbox Diary by Paul Fleishman,...
Learning About the Phases of the Moon with "Papa Papa, please get the moon for me" by Eric Carle
Margie Marc
  • Jul 20, 2021
  • 4 min

Learning About the Phases of the Moon with "Papa Papa, please get the moon for me" by Eric Carle

The idea that the Moon can change in size and follow cycles is a difficult concept for small children to understand. They accept its...
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