Inspirational people

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...

The More We Get Together. An Interview with Carla Rocha.

Many of us are waiting for the chance to travel again. There are foreigners who haven’t seen their families in such a long time. And...

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...

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

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

Teachers: What are You Still (very) Hungry for? (Inspired by Eric Carle)

Eric Carle, illustrator and author of many a classic children's book, passed away on 23 May 2021. Following on from our last two blog...

C is for Collaboration. The Secret, Shared World of Teachers

Nestled between the great land masses of Algeria and Libya and what looks like a stone’s throw away from Italy is the country called...

Crossing paths and sowing seeds: how colleagues from other fields can inspire you

Today's installment of “C is for collaboration” is about Andrea Bettinelli, a teacher trained in Argentina who has helped many children...

What CLIL means to me

In the second in a series that celebrates the contribution of our colleagues, we asked this challenging question to Itziar Hache, who...

C is for Collaboration

On Fridays, we feature some of the people who have influenced those of us who make up You First Education, starting with one of Ana...