Three (free) fonts every English teacher should have

by David | Templates, Tips, Tools, Workflows

Here are three fonts that every teacher of young learners should have: KG Dots Primary KG Dots Lined KG Dots No Space You can download them here. (Don’t forget though, most children don’t enjoy tracing endless lines of letters or words. Be mindful of that...

Top Tip: Use an ad-blocker

by David | Tips, Tools

One of the useful things about cover teaching, is that you get to see how different language centres handle the same situation or circumstances. You get to see how some ideas work really well, and other ways of doing things, don’t work so well. It’s kind...

Simplicity from complexity

by David | Learning, Video

Today I want to introduce you to Eddie Woo, one of Australia’s most celebrated Maths teachers. Eddie Woo has a way of making a topic that most people think of as complex and boring, into something exciting, useful, and relevant. This is something I aspire to do...

Taking a break – in the classroom!

by David | Tips

Recently, I attended a presentation conducted by a very experienced English teacher who was now working for one of the big language publishing houses. At one point of his talk, he made a comment that I think grabbed most people’s attention. He said, “there...

Attention grabbers for the very young learner EFL (ESL) classroom

by David | Learning, Tips

Attention grabbers. As the name might suggest, attention grabbers are a tool to recapture and focus the children’s attention on the teacher when they’re getting distracted. Having given up classroom management tools like stickers, stars, rewards, and so...

Happy Birthday song for Kindergarten English classes

by David | Songs

On of the weekend, one of the teaching assistants asked me to play ‘Happy Birthday’ for a student in the class. Ease of access, is one of the reasons I have all of the songs I use in class organised into a YouTube playlist. Therefore, it was very easy to...