Anita Demitroff
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...
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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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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:...