An email has fluttered into my mailbox with the following question: I know it may sound silly, but I have problems teaching the days of the week to a group of children who lack support at home so, they don´t study; therefore, they don´t remember the days in English. I have tried games, and different […]
Today I’d like to answer a question from a dear teacher who sent in this email: “I teach kids from 3 to 5 years old, and I think my biggest struggle is managing big classes. On my 3-year-old and 4-year-old classes that is not a problem because I have around 15 students on each class, […]
… that may result in behaviour issues throughout all the school year. Here is part 3 of the most common mistakes teachers make during the first weeks of school. If you want to check out part 1 please click here! 5. Not having a game plan Imagine you come into the classroom, the students […]
… that may result in behaviour issues throughout all the school year. Here is part 3 of the most common mistakes teachers make during the first weeks of school. If you want to check out part 1 please click here! 4. Not following through This one is a biggie!! As I said before, one of […]
… that may result in behaviour issues throughout all the school year. Here is part 3 of the most common mistakes teachers make during the first weeks of school. If you want to check out part 1 please click here! 3. Not having set expectations Many new teachers I have met are not aware of […]
… that may result in behaviour issues throughout all the school year. Here is part 2 of the most common mistakes teachers make during the first weeks of school. If you want to check out part 1, please click here! 2. Not having a routine or not teaching procedures A trap that many (especially new […]
It’s the time of the year where we are starting to get ready for the new school year. Teachers are thinking about how to set up their classrooms, their lesson plans, come up with new behaviour management strategies … in one word, you try to set the tone for the rest of the year. Here […]
Sitting down all day long, working with books and worksheets all the time is not really something you want to do when you teach children. It goes completely against their nature to work this way and then we often wonder why we have behavior issues in our classes. Kids need fun and movement in order […]
Who said teaching English to children is easy? There is this big misconception that kid’s teachers come into the classroom, sing a bit, play a bit, do some colouring and then go home. All of you who teach children know that this is faaaar from the truth. When I come to observe a class of […]
I came across this blog post about labeling children and the consequences (you can read the article here ) recently. This reminded me of the case of a young child that I taught during my first year as a classroom teacher. And I always love to tell his story, when I give workshops on classroom management, […]