International Schools Blog

Greenhouse classes are a fun, creative way to spend time outdoors (whilst still being indoors!) and learn about sustainability. Here’s how you can make your own.

From a young child grappling with the task of tying their shoelaces, to a NASA engineer coding for a space mission – frustration tolerance is a key skill for navigating challenges in all aspects of life. Let’s explore how frustration tolerance can help your students, why it’s essential in a learning environment, and how to build this skill at all ages.

Emotional regulation ensures students learn in safe and productive environments. It also prepares them for, and allows them to process, inevitable life changes. Find out how to teach emotional regulation in your classroom.

“Pay attention.”
“OK class, listen up.”
“When I’m talking, I need everyone to listen.” How many times have you asked your students to listen to you in class? It probably runs into the thousands. As teachers, you continuously encourage your students to listen and pay attention – but when was the last time you considered your own listening skills?

Society is always in a state of flux and development. But the rate of social change has accelerated over the last hundred years, thanks to technological advances and increasing connectivity. These social changes are reflected in every field, and perhaps nowhere more so than in education, where teachers are surrounded by the next generation.

Teaching is one of the caring professions. Teachers are deeply invested in their students’ happiness and wellbeing – it comes with the territory.

In the last year, we have spent more time indoors and on screens than ever before. Unsurprisingly, this has had a big impact on mental health – especially on children and adolescents. Research has found that young people have been suffering from increased levels of anxiety, loneliness and frustration.

In this article, Anita Chamberlain, Visual Arts Coordinator at The British International School in Stavanger, Norway shares her experiences of running an art project with a group of children with learning difficulties and how, through the medium of art, children can express their ideas, opinions and feelings.

Setting New Year’s resolutions is a popular tradition. They allow us to reflect on the previous year, and optimistically move into the year ahead. Perhaps your students didn’t meet their goals for 2020. But this January, we all have an opportunity to start afresh.

For many education professionals, the final term of the school year was a tricky one. Online learning put huge pressure on teachers and students alike. Now as schools around the world announce they’ll slowly start to return to in-person classes, there’s a lot of uncertainty surrounding the autumn term. What will class sizes look like? What about scheduling? And how will everyone social distance?