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Treasures Under Our Feet: Teaching Rocks and Minerals
Anita Demitroff
  • 2 days ago
  • 4 min

Treasures Under Our Feet: Teaching Rocks and Minerals

There is a paradox. When we teach about something that is so much a part of our lives- such as plants or rocks and minerals- the less...
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...
Revising Clothes Vocabulary Again? Great Ideas With More Dash Than Cash!
Anita Demitroff
  • Apr 23
  • 4 min

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...
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...
Embracing technology – taking baby steps: 6 tips
Anabel Reis
  • Feb 1
  • 4 min

Embracing technology – taking baby steps: 6 tips

Do you consider yourself a technophobe? Or do you shy away from using technology in the classroom because you don't think it's worth it...
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...
Anti-bullying: Start at the Very Beginning
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...
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....
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:...
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