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 Phys.Ed with a story for Halloween
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as dancing, throwing and catching, using apparatus, and more, with a spooky yet hilarious tale from Scotland...
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Teach Art & (More) Maths with a story for Halloween
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as graffiti, shadows, number placement, and more, with a spooky yet hilarious tale from Scotland...
Sharing their ide…
Teach Geography & Foreign Languages with a story for Halloween
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as locational knowledge, making and using maps, foreign vocab, and more, with a spooky yet hilarious tale from Scotl…
Teach Design & Technology with a story for Halloween
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as traditional dishes, pumpkins, making tools, and more, with a spooky yet hilarious tale from Scotland...
Sharing th…
Teach Science with a story for Halloween
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as skeletons, functions of bones, movement, and more, with a spooky yet hilarious tale from Scotland...
Sharing their…
Teach Maths with a story for Halloween
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as cost of living, coinage, conversion, and more, with a spooky yet hilarious tale from Scotland...
Sharing their ide…
Teach English with a story for Halloween
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as abstract connections, guided reading, modal verbs, and more, with a spooky yet hilarious tale from Scotland...
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Teach PSHE with a story for Halloween
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as belonging, coping with fear, respecting the feelings of others, and more, with a spooky yet hilarious tale from S…
Teach Music with a story for World Space Week
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as musical vocabulary, composing, notation, and more, with a story based on the changing phases of the Moon...
Sharin…
Teach Design & Technology with a story for World Space Week
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as textiles, sewing, promotional material, and more, with a story based on the changing phases of the Moon...
Sharing…
Teach Art & Foreign Languages with a story for World Space Week
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as comparing artists, texture, Romantic languages, and more, with a story based on the changing phases of the Moon..…
Teach History & Religious Ed. with a story for World Space Week
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as weddings, Sun gods, evolution of Science, and more, with a story based on the changing phases of the Moon...
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Teach Science with a story for World Space Week
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as the Solar System, Sun safety, phases of the Moon, and more, with a story based on the changing phases of the Moon…
Teach Maths with a story for World Space Week
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as number sequencing, counting in steps, ratio and proportion, and more, with a story based on the changing phases o…
Teach English with a story for World Space Week
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as rhyme, story sequencing, showing versus telling, and more, with a story based on the changing phases of the Moon.…
Teach PSHE with a story for World Space Week
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as perseverance, healthy relationships, body sizes, and more, with a story based on the changing phases of the Moon.…
Teach Music & Computing with a Chinese folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as rhythm, animation, image manipulation software, and more, with the story of a young lad who has a VERY close enco…
Teach Design & Technology with a Chinese folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as making a drum, textiles, articulation, and more, with the story of a young lad who has a VERY close encounter wit…
Teach Art with a Chinese folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as collages, shading, printing with body parts, and more, with the story of a young lad who has a VERY close encount…
Teach Geography with a Chinese folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as endangered species, rainforests, where food comes from, and more, with the story of a young lad who has a VERY cl…