by Katrina King | Sep 1, 2020 | All posts, Early Years, Primary
When I speak to colleagues about why they enjoy working with young learners, I often hear responses such as “I’ve always wanted to work with children”. As the owner of a language school focusing on teaching children and teenagers, many people are surprised...
by Heidi Haavan Grosch | Jun 1, 2020 | CPD, Primary
Outdoor learning in Norway and beyond Learning outdoors has been a natural part of Norwegian society since long before the computer screen took over the classroom. Here, it is very common to bundle up babies and park them outside in the fresh air to nap or take school...
by Troika | Feb 8, 2020 | CPD, Lower Secondary, Primary, Upper Secondary
In Brazil, there are 2.5 million teachers who teach 50 million students in 200,000 schools. This demonstrates the magnitude of the educational system. Therefore, we are not claiming that everything in this blog post reflects the reality of the whole country. However,...
by Pepelt | Jan 4, 2020 | All posts, Primary
Every year thousands of high-quality children’s picturebooks are published in English. They offer a rich, but often under-used, flexible and motivating resource for primary English language teaching (PELT). The fusion of the best in trade publishing combined...
by Clyde Fowle | Dec 9, 2019 | CPD, Primary
Making sustainability more than an ‘add on’ This is really crucial in my opinion. By embedding sustainability into a wide variety of topics across the curriculum, children better understand its importance and see the links between sustainability and various aspects of...
by Wendy Arnold | Sep 12, 2019 | CPD, Primary
Context Setting Primary English language teacher development programmes are as unique and diverse as the teachers who attend them and the teacher educators who deliver them. That said, in this blog post, I will aim to identify some success factors for programme design...
