Teaching Skills – translated!

Hi all, Our first book 100 Ideas for Essessential Teaching Skills will become translated into Chinese! We are very pleased as you can imagine. You can read more about it here

Video editing in the classroom

Some topics may be regarded as, let’s face it, rather dull by some students. Faced by such dilemma one needs to think hard to get the students remotely interested before asking them to start preparing notes or essays etc. Movie Maker is an ideal tool to turn the pressure up in the classroom and it [...]

Interview at The Education Forum

We were interviewed about Innovate with ICT today on the Education Forum What are the biggest challenges facing teachers in terms of using ICT? I agree with what Terry Haydn writes in the foreword to the book when he states that: In several recent studies, lack of time to fully explore ICT, together with the [...]

Create your own content

A colleague and I have set up a company called Firefly Learning.com where we provide interactive resources for teachers. Most of our resources are tailored for Modern Foreign Languages but our new resources, Think It! where users generate their own interactive diagrams and other activities, can be used by all subjects at all Key Stages.

Make Thinkings Skills work with exam classes

This section of our website examines how to integrate Thinking-Skills and meta-cognition to ensure maximum learning in and outside of the classroom. How do you use Thinking-Skills with your classes? We have posted many of our ideas about how we teach exam groups here: Turn a story into a mysteryOne Lesson Movie Hope you find [...]