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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

1-15-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL:






More “What If?” History Projects — Plus, What Students Thought Of Them….
Last week, I shared a few of the “What If?” history project my IB Theory of Knowledge students created and added them to The Best Resources For Teaching “What If?” History Lessons. Students just completed a simple evaluation of the project, and I thought readers might be interested in what they thought of it. As my IB students have done in previous years, they are teaching my English Language Lea


Important Interactive Infographic: “The Kids Aren’t All Right”
Here’s an excellent interactive infographic I learned about through The Answer Sheet: Produced By Healthcare Administration Degree Programs

NEA Announces Online Lesson Project
The National Education Association has just announced a Master Teacher Project/CC Better Lesson site where thousands of Common Core aligned lesson plans are freely available to educators. I’ve embedded a video below about the effort, which appears similar to the American Federation of Teachers Share My Lesson site. And, believe me, there are so many poor lesson plans online, it’s nice that both un


“Parents Can Teach Educators ‘Lessons About Learning and Life’”
Parents Can Teach Educators ‘Lessons About Learning and Life’ is part three in my Ed Week series on parent engagement. Today’s post features contributions from Catherine Compton-Lilly, Dr. Sherrel Bergmann, Dr. Judith Brough and Maurice J. Elias.


1-14-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Several Useful New Resources On Encouraging Intrinsic MotivationHere are several new additions to The Best Posts & Articles On “Motivating” Students: What does neuroscience research say about motivation and the brain? is by Judy Willis. PISA 2012 Results in Focus: What 15-year-olds know and what they can do with what th