ELL Teaching Methods Can Help All Students Our schoolâs principal, Ted Appel, and I co-wrote an article a couple of years ago on how English Language Learners were an asset to our entire school in many ways, including helping all our teachers become better instructors to everybody (see The ...
A Collection Of âThe BestâŠâ Lists On Blogs & Blogging Iâve written quite a few âThe BestâŠâ lists related to blogging, and thought that readers might find it helpful if I brought them all together. Here is A Collection Of âThe BestâŠâ Lists On Blogging: The Best Sources Of Advice For Teachers (And ...
The Willingness To Take Risks In my book on teaching English Language Learners, I describe what researchers have determined to be the key qualities of a good language learner. One of them is the willingness to take risks. A new study has just found: *ââŠ.that lower cognitive ...
âPunkin Chunkinâ Punkin Chunkin is the name of a new âsportâ of catapulting pumpkins to smash them. Iâm not making this up. The New York Times has just published an article about it, and the Discovery Science Channel has a bunch of online videos. Iâm adding the ...
âEasyhiâ for Recording Video Messages Easyhi lets you easily create free video eCards. It gives you lots of options to use YouTube videos, but it also lets you record your own. Iâm adding it to The Best Applications For Sending Online Video Messages.
âEvaluating Teacher Effectivenessâ Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: How Teacher Performance Assessments Can Measure and Improve Teaching is a new report by Linda Darling-Hammond for the Center for American Progress. Iâm adding it to The Best Resources For Learning
Diwali Diwali is a Hindu celebration also known as The Festival of Lights. Diwali in 2010 will start on Friday, the 5th of November and will continue for 5 days until Tuesday, the 9th of November. Iâve updated The Best Sites For Learning About Diwali.