Meet Matthew Halpern, kindergarten teacher, author and just an awesome guy to chat with as he shares his challenges, feelings and love for working in a kindergarten. Follow him on Facebook or follow his blog. And don’t forget to get your very own copy of his light hearted, funny and insightful book on his journey as […]

Juan Alberto Lopez Uribe helps us unlock the secrets to using puppets in a classroom to teach language skills, develop children’s EQ and to help introduce classroom rules. You can find Juan via: His blog His school’s facebook page Buddy’s page Buddy’s Youtube channel Or you can drop him an email if you would like […]

This podcast has broken the 10,000 downloads milestone!!! In fact, right now, while I’m recording this, we are up at 10,380 downloads  and that’s amazing considering this podcast is only a few months old. I am very happy that you guys have stuck with me all these weeks while I strive to deliver quality content […]

If you want to prevent burnout during your journey as an early childhood educator, here are three things to remember:- 1. plan and pace out, 2. set aside some time for yourself, and 3. engage in professional development I’ve just created a teacher’s video training series and it will be sent out free of charge. […]

Here’s how I bring back laughter into the classroom …   1) Pick out books with a funny story line. 2) Choose songs that are funny. 3) Tell jokes or riddles   If you’d like to receive free training videos for preschool teachers, please click here.

Today’s podcast is about art and craft activities and we’ll discuss whether they are absolutely necessary or optional, and three ways in which you can increase learning opportunities via art and craft activities.

We discuss how to break down what is a complex task into it’s component parts, and allow for practice of each part in a fun way so that learning to write can be effortless for children. So here are a few things you can do in your classroom to support emergent writers…. 1) Provide plenty […]

We discuss what we should be teaching our young in the classroom in order to equip them with the skills to succeed in life.   The two most important things to ask yourself the next time you plan out your curriculum, activities or lessons are:- 1.  ‘How can I help them learn these skills within a […]

We want our pre-schoolers to have good grammar, but we cannot teach them with methods used in formal school (because young learners don’t learn the same way as older children). Here are 3 tips to help you teach correct grammar in pre-school.   1) Modelling – because young children are excellent imitators. 2) Read books – making […]

We discuss how we can be effective in teaching math concepts to young learners, even if we are not particularly fond of math. When teaching math concepts and skills to little learners, here are three things to keep in mind. 1) make math learning fun and meaningful, 2) provide a good variety of concrete materials and […]