You may be coming to TED having never worked with kids before. Don't worry - it's a well-trodden path that many of us have taken. Here, you can find advice and hints collected from our teachers about how they made the adjustment to working with kids for the first time, as well as more experiences from teachers around the world.

Surviving English with Young Learners

Below is a video of Shelly Terrell, who works with kids in Germany, doing a Pecha Kucha presentation in which she gives a goldmine of tips about working with kids. It's great viewing for new teachers as well as the experienced ones! What is a Pecha Kucha you ask? Well, it's a kind of PowerPoint presentation containing 20 slides with minimal text, each of which advances automatically after 20 seconds. That makes for a presentation full of information but lasting a mere 6 minutes and 40 seconds! Enjoy!

Useful links

Five of the Biggest Mistakes I Made as a New Teacher

Survival Tips for Teaching Kids English: 30 Tips and Resources - an excellent post from Shelly Terrell's Teacher Reboot Camp blog. Shelly (star of the Pecha Kucha video above) offers tips based on her experiences from her early days working there as well as a very useful list of technological tools that can be used in the young learner classroom.

Teaching Kindergarteners in Turkey: Enjoying Every Minute of It - a guest post by Özge Karaoğlu, a kindergarten teacher in Istanbul featured on the Teaching Village blog. Özge also has her own blog, Ozge Karaoglu's Blog, which contains lots of useful tips and links for integrating technology into English lessons for young learners.

What Veteran Teachers Wished They Had Known Before They Started - from Tom DeRosa's I Want To Teach Forever blog. This post focuses more on general education and the 'bigger picture' but it's well worth a look.