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Growing Minds Here

Helping teachers support EAL learners in international schools 🌍
Real strategies | Phonics | Multilingual classrooms
🇿🇦 → 🇳🇱 Expat teacher life

02/08/2026

Kinda chic to be a teacher.

29/07/2026

Dear GMH community,

✨️ Lets connect and share our ideas ✨️

I continue to dream about hosting a conference of my own, for my fellow South African teachers on home soil.

Connect with me via my new LinkedIn Profile, and let's share our dreams for the future of education.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/growing-minds-here-b260b1426?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_android

29/07/2026

Need a helping hand setting up your South Africa theme Life Skills board? Both South African symbols & colours available.

DM for more information.

27/07/2026

Currently in my granny hobby era 🎀✨️how many of these hobbies have you given a go? These hobbies have helped me to quiet my busy (and loud) teacher brain.

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16/05/2026

AI has really helped me to turn my ideas into usable resources! Would you use any of these ideas in your classroom? What is your go-to way of using AI for teaching?

05/05/2026

Filling my cup outside of work, to allow me to wholeheartedly show up for my learners. ✨️🌻☕️

25/04/2026

Many of you know me as an EAL Teacher or Literacy Coordinator. But only a few know that in a "previous life," my focus was entirely different: researching play-based mathematics for the early years as part of my Postgraduate Honours degree.

While my daily world is often filled with phonics and syntax, I’ve always been a firm believer that mathematics isn't found in a workbook: it’s found in the "doing."

I’m incredibly passionate about bringing hands-on, practical learning to the classroom. There is nothing quite like the "aha!" moment when a learner explores, discovers, and hypothesizes through tangible experiences. Seeing children experiment and test a theory through play is where the real magic happens!

If you’re looking to move away from worksheets and toward discovery, here are my top tips for planning practical small-group math lessons in the early years:

16/04/2026

Nothing more "real teacher life" than starting a post at 7 am and only getting around to posting it at 8 pm... the day was busy, but the gratitude remained! These are a few things that I truly appreciate as a teacher.

15/04/2026

October has now become synonymous with Practical Pedagogies, I am looking forward to attending this wonderful conference again! 🇫🇷

More about my session:
Curriculum Differentiation: A roadmap to student confidence & wellbeing

This presentation explores the critical role of explicit and systematic differentiation across subjects in international education. International school classrooms are inherently diverse, not only culturally but also in learners' curriculum backgrounds, prior educational experiences, exposure to teaching approaches, and language proficiency. Drawing on research conducted in an international primary school in the Netherlands, the session highlights how differentiation in core subjects such as mathematics and literacy enables teachers to meet learners where they are. By using assessment-informed practices and targeted scaffolding, teachers can effectively support progress and reduce achievement gaps, ensuring equitable learning outcomes

https://www.pracped.net/u/Emma_Smit_PetzschCurriculum

11/04/2026

CALLING ALL 🇿🇦-TEACHERS LIVING IN THE NETHERLANDS 🇳🇱!

I've had this idea for a while, and now that spring is here, I feel the time is right. Tag your fellow South African teacher (there are so many of us) and I will get planning.
I would love to arrange a meet-up and build our community here. 🇳🇱🇿🇦💕

Adres

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