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, […]
Last time I told you about attention “problems” of children and how this is something that many teachers struggle with. Yup, you are definitely not alone! If you haven’t read it, check out the blogpost here. As promised, in today’s post I want to share with you some advice that I always give teachers and […]
One of the main questions I get asked on a regular basis is about the attention span of children. Teachers complain pretty much in every corner of the world about how low the attention span of the children in their classes actually is. The younger the children, the worse the “problem”. Now, the “problem” isn’t […]
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 […]