“What do You do When You’re Having a Bad Day in The Classroom?”
What do You do When You’re Having a Bad Day in The Classroom? is the new “question of the week” at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to leave your responses there or in the comments section here. Long time readers might remember that I asked a similar question here four years ago.
Supporting School-Wide Social Emotional Learning
Quite a few teachers at our school have helped developed the lessons in my student motivation books and taught them over the past few years. Our school is now looking at various ways to be a little more systematic about developing SEL skills, and one of the ways is having our Small Learning Communities choose three lessons from the book; have one-to-four teachers in the SLC actually teach them, an
Nice Review Of My New Classroom Management Book
Julie Dermody has just written a very positive review of my new book on Classroom Management. It appears at MiddleWeb. Here’s an excerpt: Collected and refined from posts at Ferlazzo’s Education Week blog “Classroom Q&A,” the information shared in this new digital book will have you reflecting on your current classroom practices. Better yet, the combined wisdom offered here will have you chang
Video: “Developing Leadership in Classrooms, Schools and Communities”
Here’s my keynote for the K-12 Online Conference. You can find supporting materials for it here.
Excellent Halloween Article For IB Theory of Knowledge Classes
A Halloween scare can sharpen the brain is an excellent article on emotion for IB Theory Of Knowledge classes. It’s from The Los Angeles Times. Here’s how it begins: Halloween is the time to indulge those seemingly pathological cravings to get scared out of your skull. Who in their right mind would subject themselves to blood-splattery horror movies or haunted houses blaring high-pitched screams
Learning About Literal & Interpretative Questions Through The Day Of The Dead
My latest post at The New York Times Learning Network helps students learn the different between literal and interpretative questions by exploring The Day of the Dead. A student interactive is included. I’m adding it to The Best Websites For Learning About Halloween.
10-27-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: LARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAYHere Are Some More Vocabulary Videos By ELLsOver the past week, I’ve posted examples of short vocabulary videos created by my English Language Learner students. They used either Vine or Instagram. On Friday, our Beginners taught the advanced ELLs in another class how to create them. Here