Early Learning: How To Teach Kids At A Young Age
The brains of children are highly curious and active. While all children possess unique traits that set them apart, all children have an innate ability and drive to learn.
Here are some reliable and psychologically supported activities that you can use to help kids flourish at a young age.
1. Allow them...
7 Ways To Manage Childhood Trauma
If childhood trauma is left unresolved it can rear its ugly head in adulthood. However, many parents and teachers operate under the misconception that if a child doesn’t seem to be bothered by an event, they have not really been traumatized by it.
Children do not have the emotional maturity or the verbal capacity...
Planning for Personalized Learning
Strategies To Create A Personalized Learning Environment
Each student has their own unique learning styles, strengths and weaknesses, and academic history that shapes who they are and how they learn. This learner variability exists in every classroom across the globe, yet education systems typically ask for a streamlined approach that disregards this variability. Student-centered...
Teaching Academic Essay Writing [10 Tips]
Success in teaching is when a student can do better than their teacher. Actually, every good teacher dreams about it. Still, what should you as an instructor know about academic essay writing to deliver this knowledge to your students?
Many methods and techniques are used by experienced essay writing masters who teach both...
Using Fiction to Teach Diversity [6 Ideas]
Pious Ali is talking about tea. “In my village where my grandmother raised me, the men in the family - or the “elders” as we call them - there’s a time of the day that they would sit down on their animal skin and fold their legs and drink their tea, or their chai.”
How To Teach Writing [Theory And Practice]
Writing is both a struggle and a pain. Any English teacher will testify that out of the four skills (reading, listening, speaking, and writing), it is writing that seems to pose the greatest problems to language learners. But why is that?
Why is writing hard?
One obvious reason is...
Craft Supplies For Crafty Teachers
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A Cherry On Top Crafts began in a little shoe box full of stickers more than 20 years ago. Back then, stickers came on long rolls and...
The TEFL Institute of Ireland
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Teaching English Abroad Has Never Been Easier
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The TEFL Institute of Ireland is the only...
Which TEFL Course Should I Choose?
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English is by far the fastest-spreading language in the world. With more people speaking English than ever before, it has become the universal language for communication in tourism, commerce, trade, education,...
3 Tips for Transitioning from Parent to Homeschool Teacher
It wasn’t so long ago that the idea of homeschooling your own children was still seen as odd by most parents. For mothers and fathers that work a full-time job, there’s not enough time to plan classes and look after your child’s education too.
However, as it becomes increasingly difficult for parents to...