Teaching With Ease
About Teaching With Ease
Our mission is to create quality resources to make teachers’ lives easier and to improve the standard of students’ learning.
We tutor students in English, maths and music, and use this as inspiration to produce the resources and activities that teachers need.
Why we formed the company: A teacher’s perspective
Teaching With Ease founder, Jill Creighton, started her teaching journey in Scotland as both a secondary English teacher and behaviour support teacher. When she moved to England, she became Lead Teacher of Literacy across the Curriculum, then Assistant Director of the faculty. Her final role in the secondary sector was as Head of English. Jill then felt it was time to move into the primary sector, becoming a Year 6 teacher, and Head of Upper Key Stage 2.
Long hours
Throughout her years of teaching in schools, it became ever more apparent that teachers were having to spend long hours planning lessons and searching for resources, and often still not having found quite the right thing. Jill also became increasingly aware that often hardworking teachers were hampered by a lack of knowledge in areas of their English teaching.
A new venture
In 2016, Jill left full time teaching to create Teaching With Ease with the goal of giving teachers the knowledge and resources to plan and teach high quality lessons with less time and stress. Her first resource was The Big Book of Grammar Teaching, which explains the grammatical terms needed for the UK’s Year 6 SATs exams and gives teaching ideas. From there, she built a steady stream of new English resources for teachers, at the same time working as a private English and maths tutor to children of all ages.
Expansion
Jill’s wife, Ellen, joined the business in 2017 as a private piano, saxophone and clarinet teacher. She has a passion for music, the subject of her degree, and loves giving others the gift of music too. There is often limited time for this creative subject within the primary curriculum but it can give pupils the chance to excel in a different path, to develop their concentration and teamwork skills, and to find a lifelong interest that will stay with them long after their knowledge of quadratic equations has faded. Each week, she teaches both adults and children the clarinet, saxophone and piano. As a Teaching With Ease music tutor, she follow the business’ games based learning approach, enabling children to consolidate and deepen their understanding of music whilst learning to play their chosen instrument.
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