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
- 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...
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...
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
- 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...
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
- 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...
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 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....