Ages 3–7 · For teachers of very young learners

Stop planning on Sundays. Run your classroom from one place.

For teachers of English to children aged 3 to 7. Plan the year, run each lesson, follow every child and send families a clear report, without the notebooks, spreadsheets and late nights.

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Monday starts on Sunday night

I know your Sunday. The laptop is open at nine. You are looking for a song about the weather, a story that is not too long, an activity that will hold four-year-olds for more than three minutes.

Then Monday comes. The lesson you planned for two hours lasts twenty minutes. Attendance is on a paper list, a spreadsheet and a voice note. A mother asks how her son is doing, and you scroll back through months of messages to remember.

None of this is a teaching problem. It is a week with no place to live.

Is this for you?

Be honest. It saves us both time.

This is for you if

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You teach English to children aged 3 to 7
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You teach privately, freelance or in a school
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You plan on weekends and still improvise on Monday
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Your attendance lives in three different places
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You want families to see the work you do
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English is your first language, or your fourth

This is not for you if

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You are looking for a teaching course. This is the tool
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You teach only teenagers or adults
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You want someone else to plan your lessons for you
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You prefer to keep everything on paper

It was never you. It was the scattered week.

You do not need more activities. You have hundreds, saved in folders you cannot find.

What you need is one place where the year, the week and the lesson connect. Where every child has a history. Where a family message sits next to the lesson it is about.

That is what I wanted for my own classes. So we built it.

Inside Classroom Manager

Everything about your lessons, in one place

Plan

Before the lesson

Dashboard

Today at a glance: your lessons, what needs attention and your tasks.

Planner

The year, the weeks and the lessons for each class, with planning templates to start from.

Library

Videos, audio and PDFs by category. The platform collection plus the resources you add yourself.

Run and follow

In the lesson and after it

Calendar and Attendance

Mark present, late, absent or excused. Add lesson notes, internal notes, photos and a 1 to 5 star rating.

Classes

Every group organised, with its own lessons and its own students.

Students

A profile for each child, with attendance history, lesson notes and a public student page.

Student reports

The platform generates each child's development report from your notes and attendance, ready to send to the family.

Connect and grow

Around the lesson

Messages

Conversations with families and students inside the portal, not lost in your phone.

Billing and Families

Billing and family households kept together, next to the children they belong to.

Profile Settings

Your public teacher page, the one that brings new students to you.

Leads

Lesson requests from your public page arrive in one list, ready to answer.

Testimonials

Collect what families say about your work, in one place.

Community

A feed, members and direct messages with other teachers. Included while your subscription is active.

The same week, two ways

Six moments every teacher of young children knows.

The moment

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Sunday evening
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Monday's lesson
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Taking attendance
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A child starts missing lessons
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A parent asks how it is going
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A new family finds you

With Classroom Manager

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Open the Planner. The week is already there, lesson by lesson.
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Your plan and your Library resources sit side by side.
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Present, late, absent or excused, marked in seconds.
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The attendance history shows the pattern early.
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Generate the child's report and send it to the family.
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Their request arrives in Leads from your public page.

The way it usually goes

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Three hours with a blank notebook and a search bar.
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Twelve open tabs and a phone full of half-saved videos.
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A paper list, a spreadsheet and a voice note.
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Nobody notices until the third week.
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You write a report from memory, late at night.
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The message gets lost somewhere in your inbox.

Planning, searching, chasing attendance and answering messages. Move the sliders and be honest.

What does the invisible work cost you?

Hours a week on planning and admin 5

What one hour of your time is worth 20

Teaching weeks in your year 40

This is what your unpaid planning and admin time is worth each year:

That is {hours} hours a year, or {weeks} full working weeks.

This is an estimate of your time, not a promise of savings. The portal does not do the work for you. It keeps the work in one place, so you stop doing it twice.

Who is behind this

I am Roberta Maldonado. I have been a teacher since I was ten years old, when I taught my four-year-old brother to read because he was hiding behind the door at preschool rather than go in.

At nineteen I moved to London. I read Languages at the University of London, took my CELTA, specialised at the Montessori Centre International, and completed a Master's in TESOL.

Then I taught in Brazil and in Spain — four schools in one day, everything I owned in a wheeled bag, ten-hour days, a voice that was giving out and a rash no doctor could explain.

With every one of those qualifications finished, I stood in a classroom and decided the problem must be me. It was not. It was a model that put content at the bottom and the child at the top, and then blamed the teacher when it did not work.

So I built my own. I combined Montessori, Total Physical Response and Positive Discipline into a single method for three-to-six year olds — BETA for Very Young Learners. The following term the children loved the sessions, parents started recommending me by name, and the school gave me permission to drop their materials entirely.

Then the pandemic closed the schools. English teachers lost their jobs. My Very Young Learner groups moved online — and gained students.

That is when I stopped calling it something that worked for me, and started calling it a method.

Roberta Maldonado

Creator of the BETA method

MA TESOL University of London CELTA Cambridge Young Learners Cambridge Very Young Learners Montessori Centre International

Questions teachers ask

: Your notebook works until you need to connect things: this child's attendance, last week's notes, the message from his mother. Classroom Manager keeps the plan, the lesson, the child and the family in one place. You stop rebuilding the picture every time someone asks a question.
: Yes. The Planner, Classes, Students, Attendance and Library work the same way for a school group. The public teacher page and Leads matter most if you also take private students.
: Most of it is work you already do: marking attendance and writing a note after the lesson. The difference is that you do it once, in one place, instead of in three.
: No. Many of the teachers we work with are not native speakers. The portal organises your teaching. Your English is already enough to run it.
: It is built for teachers of English to children aged 3 to 7. The planning templates and the Library are designed around that age.

Your next Monday can start differently

One place for the year, the week, the lesson and every child in it, with a report ready for every family. Monthly or annual. Cancel anytime.

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