Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
photo: Duncan Innes
Tanya’s new book “Seasonal Storytelling is out now!
Are you a parent or teacher in Aotearoa New Zealand looking for stories that fit with the seaons of the Southern hemisphere? This book is for you!
Join Tanya for a book launch event in February in Waiheke, Rawene and Kerikeri. Find out more…
A Story and A Song: listen to Tanya and Pete tell stories anytime, anywhere
Are you an educator who wants to use more storytelling, song and imaginative exercises in your classroom?
Batt on the Mat
$10.00
Every month
This is a professional membership designed for educators of 3-8 year olds by Tanya Batt. Monthly webinars and fresh arts-based educational resources.
This membership for educators is $10/month and will give you access to a member only area where you will be able to access and download:
New arts based content on a monthly basis: stories, songs, imaginative exercises, movement stories, dances and extension ideas
A monthly live webinar with Tanya Batt demonstrating and sharing ideas about the material and integration into teaching practice.
An online ‘Chat on the Mat’ page where you can share your experiences, ask questions and offer support to/with other kaiako/teachers.
Links to interesting books, papers and research in the area of children’s learning and arts education.
Join now and get immediate access to the The Crystal Ball Teaching Resource
Tanya Batt is a self confessed story-o-phile and frock-o-holic from Waiheke Island, Aotearoa, New Zealand. She is a word warbler, tale teacher, seed sower and story stitcher who channelled her childhood propensity for talking and her love of dressing up into a real ‘imaginary job’. Stories have put food on her table and a roof over her head for thirty years enabling her to share her work in more than twenty countries. She is the creative director of the ‘Once Upon An Island Charitable Trust’ that uses storytelling for community building, environmental and cultural education.
“Stories can be either bacteria or light: they can infect a system, or illuminate a world.”
Ben Okri