If you want to learn how to be a good story teller in your kindergarten or daycare classroom, and to be able to keep children eagerly listening to your story, remember to :- 1) choose the right story, 2) add animation, and, 3) practice, practice, practice!

Three tips you can try to increase your student’s attention span and keep them engaged are:- 1)minimise distractions, 2)keep your lessons/activities interesting and engaging and 3)’switching channels’ when you start to lose them.   Here’s an article of interest concerning over decorated classrooms.   If you want to connect with other listeners, please visit our new Facebook group.

We discuss how harassment at work can be the fuel that drives you to become more resilient and creative in overcoming all obstacles and becoming the very special teacher you were meant to be.   1.  Understand that you are in full control of how you feel. 2.  Reflect and get creative.   Thanks for listening! […]

I’ve just returned from two wonderfully exhilarating speaking engagements at the TESOL-France Conference (17 May 2014) and the MAPECE International Early Childhood Conference in Kuala Lumpur (24-25 May 2014). I just love meeting so many new friends and engaging with like-minded people who are so very eager to share and give what they can towards […]

The secrets to maintaining calm classroom transitions, which I have implemented successfully and perfected over the past 15 years of my teaching career are:-Firstly, you need to do a run down of the activities for the day so that the children know what the order of activities are. They may not remember the whole sequence, but […]

Music & movement is not just a great form of entertainment, it’s much more than that. If implemented well, it is an untapped treasure, a tool to providing a rich learning environment like no other. Music and movement provides :- 1) a holistic approach to learning 2) young children with a means to develop their learning skills for acquiring […]

This episode hopefully will give you some idea of how child-led/-initiated learning works and how you can work towards a curriculum which is child-centred. Techniques to overcome challenges associated with fostering child-led/-initiated learning, include the following:- step 1- ask lots of questions, step 2- get the children to ask questions and document children’s questions and […]

Discover how a small change to your daily routine can make a big difference in the way you work with young children! A daily affirmation can help us in calming the nerves, conditioning our minds so as to help us remain focused, mentally preparing us for the challenges associated with the task at hand and giving […]

In this episode, we discuss ways to employ fundamental principles of Early Childhood Education to create an environment that brings out the best behaviour in young children, and foster learning, independence and responsibility.   To learn more about how you can create a structured classroom environment, I’ve created a free, 3-part Video Training Series specifically […]

By the end of this episode, I hope that you will have a better understanding of what causes young children to be unruly and what we can do to help them develop good behaviors. Check out my blog post on childhood entitlement which is a contributing factor to having unruly children. Here are pictures of my […]