January’s Best Posts
I regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see my previous Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month.
These posts are different from the ones I list under the monthly “Most Popular Blog Posts.” Those are the posts the largest numbers of readers “clicked-on” to read. I have to admit, I’ve been a bit lax about writing those posts, though.
Here are some of the posts I personally think are the best, and most helpful, ones I’ve written during this past month (not in any order of preference):
- New Online U.S. History Game Goes Online Today
- I Didn’t Know That “The Language Guide” Had Interactive Exercises
- “Let’s Play ‘History As A List’” Is A Fascinating Idea
- “You Are Your Words”
- “Describe What It Means To Be A Great Teacher In Six Words”
- Who Is Saul Alinsky?
- “What Was There” Is A Neat Look At The Past
- “The Five-by-Five Approach to Differentiation Success”
- “Simple Booklet” Back Online
- My Ed Week Teacher Column & Article On Differentiation
- If You Like Libraries, You’ll Love This Video!
- Data Gone Wild
- 2Lingual Could Be A Very Useful Search Engine
- The Right (& Wrong) Ways To Get Student Feedback On Our Teaching
- Banning Books In Tucson
- Some New Social Media Guides
- What Books Do At Night When We’re Not Looking
- Highlights Of Twitter Chat With Daniel Pink
- My Guest NY Times Column Today — “Helping Students Motivate Themselves”
- “clubEFL” Is A Fantastic Site For EFL/ESL Teachers & Students
- “let some of the players with lower batting averages go”
- Hot Spot Interview — Report From Russia
- “This is, quite possibly, the best New York Times correction in history”
- My Most Popular Ed Week Teacher Advice Columns In 2011
- I Gotta’ Wonder Why Obama Talks So Much More About South Korean Schools Than Ones In Finland…
- Here’s Another Reason Why We Need To Be Data-Informed & Not Data-Driven
- Wow! “Lessons On American Presidents” Is A Great New Site
- My New Huffington Post Piece
- Standardized Testing & Creative Thinking
- This Is A Good Example Of Being A Bad Instructional Coach
- The “Three Good Things Exercise”
- “Ways To Include Students In The Formative Assessment Process”
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Research Studies Of The Week
I often write about research studies from various field and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature:
Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool is an NPR Report about the successes of a professor who has stopped lecturing and, and instead, has begun using small groups. American Radio Works has a more extensive feature on the results. I’m adding this to The Best Sites For Cooperative Learning Ideas.
Changing our Minds discusses a study and other ideas that suggest “fiction helps us understand ourselves and others.” I’m adding it to The Best Resources On “Becoming What We Read.”
Learning From Brilliant Mistakes and Finding Opportunity in Failures are both articles and videos related to Paul J.H. Schoemaker’s book, ‘Brilliant Mistakes.’ I’m adding them to The Best Posts, Articles & Videos About Learning From Mistakes & Failures.
V is for Visualization at Scott Thornbury’s blog is a discussion of research, and teacher’s experiences, of using