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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Is this a metre?  Allowing learners to get a sense of proportion and scale (5 tips)
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...
Look up and open your eyes to what's above you!
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...
Selecting Picture Books (It’s a Monkey Puzzle)
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...
5 Tips for Fostering Creativity in the Art Class
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...
Crossing paths and sowing seeds: how colleagues from other fields can inspire you
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...
Loose Parts: a child-led approach that requires more dash than cash (7 tips)
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...
Going on-line with 3- to 9-year-olds (is here to stay)
Anita Demitroff
  • Apr 8, 2021
  • 4 min

Going on-line with 3- to 9-year-olds (is here to stay)

Going on-line with young learners of English during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a surprisingly fruitful experience for this teacher....
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