Jimmy Fallon Comes Up With Another Good Game For English Language Learners
© 2009 RubyGoes, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio It seems like Jimmy Fallon comes up a new game every year on his show that is easily adaptable to teaching English Language Learners in the classroom. You can see previous ones at I Learn Another Great Game For English Language Learners From Jimmy Fallon. Last night, he played one called “5 Second Summaries” with actor James Fallon. Each of them had five
Just Updated Aesop’s Fables “Best” List
© 2010 Tom Blunt, Flickr | CC-BY-ND | via Wylio I’ve just revised and updated The Best Sites For Using Aesop’s Fables In The Classroom. Additional suggestions are welcome…
All My Ed Week Posts On Teaching Social Studies — In One Place!
Q & A Collections: Teaching Social Studies is my latest post at Education Week Teacher. It brings together all my social studies posts from the past three years on…teaching social studies. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
Two More Important Commentaries On Recent Deliberate Practice Study
© 2014 Sacha Chua, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio I’ve previously posted about the big new study that raised questions about the role of deliberate practice in becoming an “expert” at something (see Big New Study On Deliberate Practice). Here are two more important commentaries on that study that I’m adding to The Best Resources For Learning About The 10,000 Hour Rule & Deliberate Practice: We’ve
7-28-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: “Race To The Top Has Been A ‘Fiasco’”Race To The Top Has Been A ‘Fiasco’ is Part Two in my series on the Race To The Top program, which has just had its fifth anniversary. Today, Barnett Berry, Ariel Sacks, John Thompson, Alice Mercer and David B. Cohen weigh in with their thoughts, and I include comments from readers, too.