by Suzi Shaw | Apr 20, 2023 | Early Years, Lower Secondary, Primary, Upper Secondary
Editor’s note It is with profound sadness that we inform you of the sudden passing of Suzi Shaw, the author of this post. Suzi was an exceptional teacher and mental health advocate, whose unwavering dedication to supporting those with additional needs and mental...
by Romina Muse | Mar 22, 2023 | Early Years, Primary
Held every year on 21 March, World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. It’s a day to rejoice in language and poetic expression. What is Poetry? Defined as literature that evokes an...
by Anka Zapart | Mar 11, 2023 | Early Years, Primary
‘I have my doubts that teaching kids online is effective’ is something, apparently, I said in an interview at a teacher training conference in 2019. How else though? Back then I had been a teacher with almost two decades of the proper offline classroom experience,...
by Adrienn Szlapak | Feb 21, 2023 | All posts, CPD, Early Years, Lower Secondary, Primary, Upper Secondary
*In this post the terms ‘mother tongue’ and ‘first language’ (L1) are used interchangeable as defined by Pokharel (2001). This year sees the 24th edition of the International Mother Language Day and the focus is ‘multilingual education...
by Rachel Tsateri | Feb 8, 2023 | CPD, Early Years, Lower Secondary, Primary, Upper Secondary
I’m going to tell you a little story about how I became a young learner (YL) teacher in 2014. The CELTA confidence After completing the Celta, a four-week intensive course for teachers who have little or no teaching experience, I was feeling confident and well...
by Fiona Hunter | Dec 12, 2022 | Early Years, Primary
Are our young learners really learning useful phrases and language chunks, or are they just learning isolated words from vocabulary groups? This is a question I asked myself a lot. I must admit, I thought I could do a much better job of helping my preschool learners...
