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 PSHE with a Christmas folk tale!
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around understanding different cultures, unlikely heroes, managing distractions, and more, using the tale of a little …
Teach Phys.Ed & Music with a Rural Folk Tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around adapting across genres, musical accompaniment, and dance, using the tale of a farmer trying to outwit a villain…
Teach Art with a Rural Folk Tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around adapting to different media, illustrating a text, and mastering artistic techniques, using the tale of a farmer…
Teach Design & Technology with a Rural Folk Tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around willow weaving, embroidery, and creating menus, using the tale of a farmer trying to outwit a villainous boggar…
Teach Geography & History with a Rural Folk Tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around comparing time periods, the language of time, and climates across the world, using the tale of a farmer trying …
Teach Science with a Rural Folk Tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around what plants need, rocks and soils, and balanced diets, using the tale of a farmer trying to outwit a villainous…
Teach Maths with a Rural Folk Tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around pictograms, interpreting data, and area and perimeter, using the tale of a farmer trying to outwit a villainous…
Teach English with a Rural Folk Tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around predicting, descriptions, and writing instructions, using the tale of a farmer trying to outwit a villainous bo…
Teach PSHE with a Rural Folk Tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around coping with fear, citizenship, and key workers, using the tale of a farmer trying to outwit a villainous boggar…
Teach Phys.Ed & Computing with a Princess and a Giant
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around ball skills, assault course benefits, and programming routes, using the tale of a princess who comes face-to-fa…
Teach Art with a Princess and a Giant
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around words as pictures, the colour of emotions, and illustrating a text, using the tale of a princess who comes face…
Teach Design & Technology with a Princess and a Giant
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around strength of materials, strengthening materials, and tool-making, using the tale of a princess who comes face-to…
Teach History & Geography with a Princess and a Giant
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around historical jobs, earthquakes, and cultural myths around the world, using the tale of a princess who comes face-…
Teach Science with a Princess and Giant
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around gravity, diets, and circuits, using the tale of a princess who comes face-to-face with a mountain-shaking giant…
Teach Maths with a Princess and Giant
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around scale, area, and volume, using the tale of a princess who comes face-to-face with a mountain-shaking giant!
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Teach English with a Princess and Giant
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around description, persuasion, and poetry, using the tale of a princess who comes face-to-face with a mountain-shakin…
Teach PSHE with a Princess and Giant
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around stereotypes, prejudice, and responsibilities, using the tale of a princess who comes face-to-face with a mounta…
Teach Religious Ed & Foreign Language with an African Folk Tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around gods, African tribal languages, and decoding languages, using the tale of a spider who has to catch wasps, a sn…
Teach Music with an African Folk Tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around replicating sounds, body percussion, and creating soundtracks, using the tale of a spider who has to catch wasp…
Teach Art with an African Folk Tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons around clay, Henry Rousseau, and Ghanaian decoration, using the tale of a spider who has to catch wasps, a snake, and …