Happily Ever Teaching
Join a virtual staffroom of keen teachers to explore the best teaching method known to science: storytelling. In 2014, Epic Tales and EU Lifelong Learning proved that children perform an average of 26% better in tests when taught through stories, a fact that's since been backed up by London's Institute of Education and Bath University, so we're here to help your learners achieve greater success in English, Maths, Science, and more.
Hosted by Oxford Owl storyteller Chip Colquhoun, author of the EU’s guidance on using stories in the classroom, each 15min-or-so episode takes the weekly story in our sister podcast, Fables & Fairy Tales, and discusses it with experienced teachers around a specific curriculum subject. You'll come away with off-the-shelf lesson ideas that are effective, memorable, and enjoyable – all at the same time.
To get the stories as special edition paperbacks containing detailed lesson plans, along with artwork by incredible illustrators such as Winnie the Witch's Korky Paul, join the Epic Learning Book Club by visiting epictales.co.uk/teachhappily
You can also find us on Facebook for weekly storytelling tips from Chip, and join our discussions on Twitter using @TeachHappily to let us know what topics you'd like us to cover.
We look forward to sharing stories with you!
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 13 minutes
- Episodes
- 225
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2023
Teach Chinese New Year with a Taiwanese folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around Chinese traditions, modernising folk tales, and exploring religions, using the tale of a carpenter's extreme le…
Teach Science with a Taiwanese folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around friction, climate change, and food chains, using the tale of a carpenter's extreme lengths to keep a tiger off …
Teach Maths with a Taiwanese folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around counting, measuring, and mathematical investigations, using the tale of a carpenter's extreme lengths to keep a…
Teach English with a Taiwanese folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around building blocks of stories, adapting existing stories, and dramatising scenes, using the tale of a carpenter's …
Teach PSHE with a Taiwanese folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around respect, recognising emotions, and refugees, using the tale of a carpenter's extreme lengths to keep a tiger of…
Teach Art, Design & Technology with an Ethiopian folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around cakes, meal planning, and charcoal painting, using the tale of a 6-year-old's struggle of endurance to save his…
Teach Religious & Phys.Ed with an Ethiopian folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around endurance, warm-up activities, and light symbolism, using the tale of a 6-year-old's struggle of endurance to s…
Teach Geography with an Ethiopian folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around mountain life, the journey of a coffee bean, and climates around the world, using the tale of a 6-year-old's st…
Teach History & Fire Safety with an Ethiopian folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around uses of fire, health and safety, and communication through the ages, using the tale of a 6-year-old's struggle …
Teach Science with an Ethiopian Folk Tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around keeping warm, shadows, and fire building, using the tale of a 6-year-old's struggle of endurance to save his mo…
Teach Maths with an Ethiopian folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around budgeting and saving, cumulative addition, and fractions, using the tale of a 6-year-old's struggle of enduranc…
Teach English with an Ethiopian folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around invitations, descriptions, and emotion tracking, using the tale of a 6-year-old's struggle of endurance to save…
Teach PSHE with an Ethiopian folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around supporting others from a distance, generosity, and friendship, using the tale of a 6-year-old's struggle of end…
Teach Science with a Christmas folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around astronomy, light, plants and more, using the tale of a little camel struggling to carry heavy gifts through an …
Teach Maths with a Christmas folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around decimals, weights, symmetry and more, using the tale of a little camel struggling to carry heavy gifts through …
Teach Computing & Drama with a Christmas folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around coding, Bee-Bots, Nativity producing and more, using the tale of a little camel struggling to carry heavy gifts…
Teach Humanities & Phys.Ed with a Christmas folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around modes of transport, gymnastics, weather phenomenon and more, using the tale of a little camel struggling to car…
Teach Religious Ed & Geography with a Christmas folk tale!
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around winter celebrations from different cultures, pilgrimages, the impact of surroundings on traditions, and more, u…
Teach Art & Philosophy with a Christmas folk tale!
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around questioning, van Gogh, experimenting with media, and more, using the tale of a little camel struggling to carry…
Teach English with a Christmas folk tale!
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around character descriptions, adapting to different settings, report writing, and more, using the tale of a little ca…