Anita Demitroff
Bringing Structures Home: Making Secondary Technology Accessible
CLIL may be fun in Primary, but its counterpart in Secondary can sometimes be text-laden and content heavy. Technology as a subject may...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Anita Demitroff
- Dec 1, 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...
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...
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....
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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,...