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 the Easter story
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on minibeasts, parts of a flower, and what it means to be alive (scientifically), using the Easter story from the pers…
Teach Maths with the Easter story
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on magic squares, word problems, and statistics, using the Easter story from the perspective of Barabbas.
Sharing their…
Teach English with the Easter story
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on perspective, emotion tracking, and presenting, using the Easter story from the perspective of Barabbas.
Sharing thei…
Teach PSHE & Coding with the Easter Story
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on consequences, the power of words, and putting others first, using the story of Easter told from the perspective of …
Teach PSHE with the Easter story
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on learning from mistakes, heroes, consequences, the power of words, and putting others first, using the story of East…
Teach Phys.Ed & Art with the legend of Rome
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on illustrating a character, choosing artistic tools, and telling stories through movement, using the legend of the fo…
Teach Design & Technology with the legend of Rome
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on designing a town, where food comes from, and Roman recipes, using the legend of the founding of Rome.
Sharing their …
Teach Geography with the legend of Rome
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on creating maps, countries & continents, and picking locations to live, using the legend of the founding of Rome.
Shar…
Teach History, Religion & Computing with the legend of Rome
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on the chronology of ages, different methods of prayer, and coding, using the legend of the founding of Rome.
Sharing t…
Teach Science with the legend of Rome
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on baby animals, hearing, and animal sounds, using the legend of the founding of Rome.
Sharing their ideas with you is …
Teach Maths with the legend of Rome
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on place value, budgets, and doubles, using the legend of the founding of Rome.
Sharing their ideas with you is teacher…
Teach English with the legend of Rome
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on play scripts, performing poems, and sentence openers, using the legend of the founding of Rome.
Sharing their ideas …
Teach PSHE with the legend of Rome
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on considerate thinking, impulses, and belonging, using the legend of the founding of Rome.
Sharing their ideas with yo…
Teach Music with an Indonesian folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on Indonesian instruments, sound effects, and composing themes, using the tale of a farm girl who ends up on the wrong…
Teach Art with an Indonesian folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on advertising, drawing imaginatively, and reviewing artists' interpretations, using the tale of a farm girl who ends …
Teach Design & Technology with an Indonesian folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on researching, developing, and evaluating an enterprise project, using the tale of a farm girl who ends up on the wro…
Teach Geography with an Indonesian folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on levels of wealth around the world, smashing stereotypes, and differences in farming across the world, using the tal…
Teach Science with an Indonesian folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on money, capacity, and return on investment, using the tale of a farm girl who ends up on the wrong side of a giant –…
Teach Maths with an Indonesian folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on money, capacity, and return on investment, using the tale of a farm girl who ends up on the wrong side of a giant –…
Teach PSHE with an Indonesian folk tale
Discover fun and effective ways to easily engage children aged 4–11 with lessons on sharing, fair trade, and what makes a family, using the tale of a farm girl who ends up on the wrong side of a gian…