ELL Teaching Methods Can Help All Students Our school’s 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 “The Best…” Lists On Blogs & Blogging I’ve written quite a few “The Best…” lists related to blogging, and thought that readers might find it helpful if I brought them all together. Here is A Collection Of “The Best…” 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: *“….that lower cognitive ...
“Punkin Chunkin” Punkin Chunkin is the name of a new “sport” of catapulting pumpkins to smash them. I’m 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. I’m adding the ...
“Easyhi” 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. I’m adding it to The Best Applications For Sending Online Video Messages.
“Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness” 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. I’m 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. I’ve updated The Best Sites For Learning About Diwali.
