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 Chinese folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as animal classification, evolution, friction, and more, with the story of a young lad who has a VERY close encounte…
Teach Maths with a Chinese folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as size, abstraction, 3D shapes, and more, with the story of a young lad who has a VERY close encounter with some go…
Teach English with a Chinese folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as inference, describing physical features, writing job applications, and more, with the story of a young lad who ha…
Teach PSHE with a Chinese folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as positive self-image, greed, patience, and more, with the story of a young lad who has a VERY close encounter with…
Teach Phys.Ed with the water cycle
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as dance, obstacles, gymnastics, and more, while following the adventures of three droplets around the water cycle..…
Teach Art with the water cycle
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as making accurate marks, colour mixing, photography, and more, while following the adventures of three droplets aro…
Teach Music, Design & Technology with the water cycle
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as modelling, dynamics, tempo, and more, while following the adventures of three droplets around the water cycle...
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Teach Geography with the water cycle
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as the water cycle, oceans and continents, erosion, and more, while following the adventures of three droplets aroun…
Teach Science with the water cycle
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as states of matter, respiration, digestion, and more, while following the adventures of three droplets around the w…
Teach Maths with the water cycle
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as the three times table, volume, temperature, and more, while following the adventures of three droplets around the…
Teach English with the water cycle
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as story maps, onomatopoeia, perspective, and more, while following the adventures of three droplets around the wate…
Teach PSHE with the water cycle
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as transitions, resilience, keeping in touch, and more, while following the adventures of three droplets around the …
Teach Art with the Great Fire of London
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as historical artworks, silhouettes, pyrography, and more, with a dramatisation of the Fire of London from the mayor…
Teach Computing, Design & Technology with the Great Fire of London
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as baking, architecture, communication technology, and more, with a dramatisation of the Fire of London from the may…
Teach Geography with the Great Fire of London
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as London maps, weather, major rivers, and more, with a dramatisation of the Fire of London from the mayor's POV...
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Teach History with the Great Fire of London
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as comparing now and then, sources, significant events and people, and more, with a dramatisation of the Fire of Lon…
Teach Science with the Great Fire of London
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as fire-making, fire safety, properties of materials, and more, with a dramatisation of the Fire of London from the …
Teach Maths with the Great Fire of London
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as capacity, time, weights, and more, with a dramatisation of the Fire of London from the mayor's POV...
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Teach English with the Great Fire of London
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as diary writing, persuasive writing, shifts in formality, and more, with a dramatisation of the Fire of London from…
Teach PSHE with the Great Fire of London
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 in topics such as making mistakes, responsibility, career choices, and more, with a dramatisation of the Fire of London from the ma…