More Reasons Why Our Students Should Continue Their Academic Career
Here are new additions to The Best Resources For Showing Students Why They Should Continue Their Academic Career: Wage Premium From College Is Said to Be Up is from The New York Times. Going To College May Cost You, But So Will Skipping It is from NPR. Infographic: Better Education = Healthier Lives is from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Photo Galleries Of The Week
Obviously, photos can be great educational tools with English Language Learners and with any students (see The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons). I post about many photo galleries, also called slideshows. To do it in a little more organized way, though, I recently began this weekly feature called “Photo Galleries Of The Week.” This post is a “round-up” of online slideshows I’m adding to various
Okay, These Will Be My Final Valentine’s Resources This Year….
Here are some final neat additions to The Best Sites To Learn About Valentine’s Day: Good Relationships: Most Repeated Advice Across 25 Relationship Guides is a great infographic. Valentine’s Day is an interactive from Learn English Teens at the British Council. L.O.V.E. – activity/lesson plan is for English Language Learners. Odd ways to mark Valentine’s Day around the world – in pictures is fr
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Two Very Important Posts On “Close Reading”
Here are two very important posts I’m adding to The Best Resources On “Close Reading”: Teach Kids to Build Their Own Prior Knowledge is by Laura Robb and appears in Middleweb. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Common Core: A critical reading of “close reading” is from Rethinking Schools.
Some Very Interesting Info On Self-Control Research
I’ve written a lot about helping students learn about self-control (see The Best Posts About Helping Students Develop Their Capacity For Self-Control). Walter Mischel’s famous marshmallow experiment obviously plays a role in that work. I also wrote about a recent study (see Marshmallows and Trust) that raised a question about if that experiment truly measured self-control, or if it really measure
I Believe It’s Important To Have High Expectations Of Students, But This Might Be Going A Little Too Far….
RT @LiveScience: Archaeologists have discovered a 1,700-year-old school, http://t.co/fZOMrMAGdZ pic.twitter.com/qkEydEg4Xc — Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) February 13, 2014 Here’s an excerpt from the article: In a different room of the school, the team discovered another text composed by a teacher telling students to bring their rhetorical skills up to the level of several deities, including th
This Week’s Round-Up Of Useful Posts & Articles On Education Policy
Here are some recent good posts about educational policy issues: Why False Compromises Won’t Resolve The Education Debate is by Jeff Bryant. He doesn’t use these exact words, but does a good job distinguishing the difference between a “half a loaf” and “half a baby.” Those are the terms we use in community organizing when describing the differences between a genuine compromise and one which is ha
2-13-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: “Love English” Awards Are A Great Place To Find Useful ESL/ELL WebsitesMacmillan Publishers annually sponsor a “Love English” award contest for websites and blogs emphasizing support for English Language Learners. I view these kids of contests as not particularly important in terms of who wins, and much more useful as a way
