The Best Articles (And Blog Posts) Offering Practical Advice To Teachers In 2011 — So Far
I usually just do a year-end list on practical advice and many other topics, but it gets a little crazy having to review all of my zillion posts at once. So, to make it easier for me — and perhaps, to make it a little more useful to readers — I’m going to start publishing mid-year lists, too. These won’t be ranked, unlike my year-end “The Best…” lists, and just because a site appears on a mid-year list doesn’t guarantee it will be included in an end-of-the-year one. But, at least, I won’t have to review all my year’s posts in December…
The title of this “The Best…” list is pretty self-explanatory. What you’ll find here are blog posts and articles this year (some written by me, some by others) that were, in my opinion, the ones that offered the best practical
“Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength”
In the classroom lessons on self-control I’ve written about here and in my book, I’ve cited and had students read research on the topic by Professor Roy F. Baumeister.
He’s now co-written a new book titled Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, and an excerpt has been published in The New York Times called Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?
Professor Baumeister’s co-author has also written a short accompanying columns to The Times excerpt calledWhy You Need To Sleep On It.
The underlying research of the article is grounded in the finding, which I’ve written about a lot here (check out