Education Elephant Blog
The Latest News And Stories
At Education Elephant, we think it is important to keep you up to date with the latest teaching tips, news, announcements, case studies, and stories from across the education sector. Read on to find the latest posts of interest, and please feel free to share any posts that you find useful with colleagues and friends. We’d love to hear from you so please comment below any of the posts.
How can we up-skill during this time at home?
We have come up with some nice skills that could be great to learn while most of us are working from home, minding the kids or self isolating. We are some of the lucky ones, the only ask: to stay a home. A big shout out to our front line workers, from Doctors, Nurses,...
Home Activity Wall – Activities for Kid’s at home!
Welcome! We will be sharing some kids related activities, recipes and other fun things over the coming weeks to help with home schooling and keeping busy! This is our Home Activity Wall! It's designed to be printed out and kids can get some inspiration for fun things...
Online Course Platform Launching April 2020
We are delighted to announce that we are launching the brand new Education Elephant Online Training platform on the 10th April 2020. Join our online community and up your skills by enrolling our courses: How To Set Up Lego® Based Therapy Groups In Your...
Family Run Business Of The Year: Winners at the Irish Women in Business Awards 2020
We are delighted to announce that Éirim, our sister company has won Family Run Business of the year at The Irish Women's Awards. A few words from Rebecca Good: "We are all absolutely thrilled and immensely proud. Kate and I set up Éirim 17 years ago as a service to...
New Year Resolutions for Kids
Parents & Teachers: New Year Resolutions for Kids With the first week back to school almost under our belts, it’s a perfect time for your kids or students to set some New Year resolutions! Experts say that kids between 6 -12 are at a great age to set and...
Tips For Note Taking In The Classroom:
In school or college, students take notes during class, but how can we help them take sufficient notes to fuel their learning in their later revision? Many studies have reported that students only take up to 30% of the lesson points in a class. Missing over 70%...
We’re Hiring! (September 2019)
Want to utilise your digital marketing skills to benefit a great educational mission? Education Elephant is seeking a Part-time Digital Marketing and Sales Manager for our Dublin office. Education Elephant is a growing online...
52 of the Best Children’s Books of All Time
Why are Children’s Books so Important? Introducing children to all varieties of literature at an early age is extremely important for their developmental success. Although your child may be introduced to reading at school, it is essential that you start their passion...
Seven Lessons That I’ve Learned from Working with Autism in the Classroom
Schools all across the world come into contact with autism. Surprisingly, teachers sometimes do not feel prepared or even responsible for taking in an autistic student to the class. As a teacher, I want to share seven, simple lessons that I’ve picked up along the way...
7 Apps and Tools for Teachers of Students with Dyslexia
Navigating the best ways to help guide your dyslexic students is a difficult thing to do. You want the best for all of your students, but it may be challenging to work out how to get the best out of them all on your own. Thankfully, technology is on your side, with...
