Kristín Einarsdóttir, an experienced P.E. teacher from Iceland and Sarah
Jane Anthony, an experienced primary and EFL teacher from England met in
Alicante, Spain in 2016 where they were both running their separate projects at
the time. Kristín was hosting a trip for Icelandic teachers with Play
to Learn More courses on the beach and visits to local Spanish schools
as part of one of her teacher training projects and Sarah was running Smartenglish Creative
Language School and offering teaching courses for local teachers in
the area.
Although they didn’t share the same
specialisms, after taking part in each other’s workshops, they soon discovered
that they shared the same outlook on teaching:
Teachers and their students need to play
more.
Both with years of experience of working
with schools, developing their own methodology and running courses in Spain and
Iceland and with a real sense
of excitement, they decided to create Smart Teachers Play More a
truly exciting and practical course which focuses on learning, developing
confidence and creativity through play, movement and sensory activities.
More about Kristín…
Kristín teaches part time in a primary
school in Iceland and is the founder and author of the acclaimed teaching
method Play to Learn
More where academic subjects are combined with play and
movement to optimise learning. Her passion is to train as many teachers
as possible in the method in order to ensure that children everywhere can
benefit from the powerful experience of learning using their senses and
movement. Kristin works with over 30 schools in Iceland and has
organised educational courses and conferences for more than 5,000
Icelandic and Scandinavian teachers in Iceland, Norway and Spain.
More about Sarah…
Sarah is the founder and director
of Smartenglish
Creative Language School, Alicante which
specialises in teaching English as a foreign language for young learners using
creative methodology developed at the school. Over the past 8 years, Sarah and
her team have researched and developed their own program and methodology to
teach English through creative, sensory and meaningful activities. Central to
their ethos is that if children and their teachers feel happy, secure, valued
and inspired then great teaching and learning experiences will take
place. Smartenglish has its main teaching centre in Alicante,
Spain and works closely with local infant and primary schools. Sarah offers
courses on a range of creative EFL classroom themes for teachers locally and
internationally.
Source: https://smartteachersplaymore.com/our-team/
