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 Science with a story for National Grief Awareness Week
Discover effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as volume & life cycles, classification, day & night, and more, with a heartwarming and sensitive Hindu myth on the nature o…
Teach Maths with a story for National Grief Awareness Week
Discover effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as volume & capacity, counting, passage of time, and more, with a heartwarming and sensitive Hindu myth on the nature of gri…
Teach PSHE with a story for National Grief Awareness Week
Discover effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as grief, emotions, collaboration, and more, with a heartwarming and sensitive Hindu myth on the nature of grief...
Sharing t…
Teach English with a story for National Grief Awareness Week
Discover effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as editing, cathartic writing, oral retelling, and more, with a heartwarming and sensitive Hindu myth on the nature of grief…
Teach Music with a story from World War One
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as designing for morale songs, singing in unison, soundtracks, and more, with a heartwarming true story from "the wa…
Teach Design & Technology with a story from World War One
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as designing for purpose, evaluating, healthy meals, and more, with a heartwarming true story from "the war to end a…
Teach Religious Ed with a story from World War One
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as parables, ethics of war, faith, and more, with a heartwarming true story from "the war to end all wars"...
Sharing…
Teach History with a story from World War One
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as timelines, primary & secondary sources, bias & perspective, and more, with a heartwarming true story from "the wa…
Teach Science with a story from World War One
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as warm materials, natural clocks, sound waves, and more, with a heartwarming true story from "the war to end all wa…
Teach Maths with a story from World War One
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as periods of time, positional language, pie charts, and more, with a heartwarming true story from "the war to end a…
Teach English with a story from World War One
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as postcards, emotion tracking, adapting settings, and more, with a heartwarming true story from "the war to end all…
Teach PSHE with a story from World War One
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as fear & courage, why we fight, what is an enemy, and more, with a heartwarming true story from "the war to end all…
Teach Art with Brer Bunny!
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as cartoons, clay work, representing personality, and more, with the Southern United States' most famous trickster..…
Teach Music, Design & Technology with Brer Bunny!
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as modelling, recipes, composition, and more, with the Southern United States' most famous trickster...
Sharing their…
Teach Geography with Brer Bunny!
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as Southern USA, agriculture, fair trade, and more, with the Southern United States' most famous trickster...
Sharing…
Teach History & Phys.Ed with Brer Bunny!
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as slavery, movement, dance, and more, with the Southern United States' most famous trickster...
Sharing their ideas …
Teach Science with Brer Bunny!
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as animal features, sticky materials, food chains, and more, with the Southern United States' most famous trickster.…
Teach Maths with Brer Bunny!
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as subtraction, coordinates, percentages, and more, with the Southern United States' most famous trickster...
Sharing…
Teach English with Brer Bunny!
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as titles, morals, text comparisons, and more, with the Southern United States' most famous trickster...
Sharing thei…
Teach PSHE with Brer Bunny!
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as anti-bullying, resilience, compliments, and more, with the Southern United States' most famous trickster...
Sharin…