Anita Demitroff
Revising Clothes Vocabulary Again? Great Ideas With More Dash Than Cash!
The lockdown and online classes opened a whole world of possibilities. Learners could show their favourite objects, get out their musical...
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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
- 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...
Margie Marc
- Nov 24, 2021
- 6 min
Anti-bullying: Start at the Very Beginning
As a KiVa trainer in Spain, who trains teachers about how to implement the KiVa anti-bullying programme in their schools, I'm often asked...
Anita Demitroff
- Oct 13, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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:...
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...
Anita Demitroff
- Jul 6, 2021
- 3 min
Is this a metre? Allowing learners to get a sense of proportion and scale (5 tips)
It’s not just a question of age. Ask Primary or Secondary students to estimate how long something is, like a table in the room, for...
Anita Demitroff
- Jun 29, 2021
- 3 min
Look up and open your eyes to what's above you!
Last Tuesday's blog was based on a "Little Cloud" by Eric Carle, a book that encourages its readers to watch clouds and to open their...
Margie Marc
- Jun 22, 2021
- 3 min
Firing children's imaginations with Eric Carle's "Little Cloud" (3-6 years)
Sometimes less is more and with this particular Eric Carle story, this does appear to be the case. The simplicity of "Little Cloud" is...
Margie Marc
- May 31, 2021
- 4 min
Selecting Picture Books (It’s a Monkey Puzzle)
There are many attractive picture books available to use in the CLIL classroom, but how do we decide which to use? What are the key...
Anita Demitroff
- May 17, 2021
- 3 min
5 Tips for Fostering Creativity in the Art Class
How can we get our learners to feel confident enough to be more innovative in art class? Many of us want to break away from uniform craft...
Anita Demitroff
- May 7, 2021
- 5 min
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...
Itziar Hache
- Apr 30, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Anita Demitroff
- Apr 26, 2021
- 7 min
Loose Parts: a child-led approach that requires more dash than cash (7 tips)
When the teacher takes the child’s lead: using Loose Parts in nurseries and the three-year-old classroom As an English teacher, do you...
Anita Demitroff
- Apr 23, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Anita Demitroff
- Apr 19, 2021
- 5 min
7 tricks to help align your English teaching with Pre-primary projects in the first language(s)
Up until recently, many teachers thought that CLIL started in Primary and that there was no place for topics like outer space or Egypt in...
Anita Demitroff
- Apr 8, 2021
- 6 min
How to give 9-layer lessons and get you (and your 3- to 9-year-olds) loving on-line CLIL classes!
A great on-line lesson is like a layer cake, because each layer has a different texture and a different flavour, according to this CLIL...