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Treasures Under Our Feet: Teaching Rocks and Minerals
Anita Demitroff
  • 2 days ago
  • 4 min

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...
Tempting Learners Back: A Project Based On Chocolate!
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...
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...
Wading into Project-Based Learning for 2030: Where Does Our Waste Water Go?
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...
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...
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...
Review: "How to Write CLIL Materials," ELT Teacher 2 Writer. Tremendous Insight and a Helping Hand
Anita Demitroff
  • Nov 30, 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...
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...
Speak Up in CLIL Science
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....
“Not a Stick”: A Creativity-boosting Activity with More Dash than Cash!
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,...
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...
Jingle Jangle: Developing Higher Order Thinking Skills with Coins
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...
Memories in a Matchbox to Integrate Social Studies
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,...
The Power of Storytelling
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...
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...
C is for Collaboration. The Secret, Shared  World of Teachers
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...
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...
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