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
- 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
- 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...
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 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
- Aug 18, 2021
- 3 min
Jingle Jangle: Developing Higher Order Thinking Skills with Coins
Last week's blog was about going from one world area to another. What better way to represent travel than coins from different...
Margie Marc
- Aug 9, 2021
- 4 min
Memories in a Matchbox to Integrate Social Studies
Can you fit your life into a cigar box? Can you imagine leaving home forever, never to return? The Matchbox Diary by Paul Fleishman,...
Anita Demitroff
- Jul 30, 2021
- 3 min
The 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 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...
Anita Demitroff
- Jun 4, 2021
- 4 min
C is for Collaboration. The Secret, Shared World of Teachers
Nestled 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 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...