Anita Demitroff2 days ago4 minTreasures Under Our Feet: Teaching Rocks and MineralsThere 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...
Anita DemitroffApr 295 minTempting 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 DemitroffApr 234 minRevising 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 DemitroffApr 124 minWading 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 DemitroffMar 283 minFirst Steps in Learning to Learn in Early PrimaryLots 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 DemitroffJan 234 minAll about Experiments: 7 factors to considerWith their fizzes, bangs and pops, experiments are universally popular. The surprising results of mixing together everyday materials can...
Anita DemitroffJan 75 minNow 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 DemitroffNov 30, 20215 minReview: "How to Write CLIL Materials," ELT Teacher 2 Writer. Tremendous Insight and a Helping HandWorking 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 MarcNov 24, 20216 minAnti-bullying: Start at the Very BeginningAs 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 DemitroffOct 26, 20214 minSpeak Up in CLIL ScienceContent-laden subjects like Science often leave little room for extra practice to ensure children can speak about what they are learning....
Anita DemitroffSep 28, 20213 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 DemitroffSep 14, 20213 minA 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 DemitroffAug 18, 20213 minJingle Jangle: Developing Higher Order Thinking Skills with CoinsLast week's blog was about going from one world area to another. What better way to represent travel than coins from different...
Margie MarcAug 9, 20214 minMemories in a Matchbox to Integrate Social StudiesCan you fit your life into a cigar box? Can you imagine leaving home forever, never to return? The Matchbox Diary by Paul Fleishman,...
Anita DemitroffJul 30, 20213 minThe Power of Storytelling Every family has its own stories, passed down from relatives or taken from beloved books. And an older teacher can see how the same...
Anita DemitroffJul 6, 20213 minIs 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 DemitroffJun 29, 20213 minLook 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...
Anita DemitroffJun 4, 20214 minC is for Collaboration. The Secret, Shared World of TeachersNestled between the great land masses of Algeria and Libya and what looks like a stone’s throw away from Italy is the country called...
Margie MarcMay 31, 20214 minSelecting 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 DemitroffMay 17, 20213 min5 Tips for Fostering Creativity in the Art ClassHow 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...