Q&A Collections: Author Interviews is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts sharing author interviews (from the past eight years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
WikiImages / Pixabay Of course, many of us have our thoughts with the people of Florida as Dorian bears down on the coast. I’m adding this new USA Today video to The Best Sites For Learning About Hurricanes :
geralt / Pixabay I’ve written a lot in my books and blog posts about how much I like the Picture Word Inductive Model activity when I’m teaching Beginning English Language Learners (see The Best Ways To Modify The Picture Word Inductive Model For ELLs ). Now that I’m back to teaching a Beginning class this year (along with International Baccalaureate courses), I continue to have the same enthusia
PhotoMIX-Company / Pixabay I used to post weekly collections of my best tweets, and used Storify to bring them together. Unfortunately, Storify went under. Fortunately, however, Wakelet was a new tool that was able to import all of a person’s Storifys. So you can see all those previous Twitter “Best” lists here . I don’t want to risk putting all the work into those posts again and risk losing the
Q&A Collections: Advice for New Teachers is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts offering Advice For New Teachers (from the past eight years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
I’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 19,000 resources there that I haven’t shared on this blog. I thought readers might find it useful if I began sharing a handful of my most recent “pins” each week (I’m not sure if you can see them through an RSS Reader – you might have to click through to the original post). You might also be interested in My Seven Most Popular Pins In 2018
I’ve shared articles in the past about the dangers of “data walls” (you can find them at The Best Resources Showing Why We Need To Be “Data-Informed” & Not “Data-Driven” ). Data Walls Demoralize Students. Assessment Expert Lorrie Shepard Explains Why is a new report from the National Education Policy Center that makes their dangers even more clear to teachers. I know the text box is a big one at
Various news reports typically come out near the beginning of the school year highlighting how much money we teachers spend on school supplies. Five hundred dollars is usually what they say (see The Best Data On How Much Money Teachers Pay Out Of Their Own Pocket – What Do You Spend? ), but I think that’s a low figure. I’m pretty sure my expenses are closer to $1,000 or more. It’s the beginning o
Erdenebayar / Pixabay The rise and fall of the Mongol Empire is the title of a new TED-Ed lesson and video. I’m adding it to our World History class blog where we cover that time period.
Q&A Collections: Science Instruction is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts offering advice on Science Instruction (from the past eight years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here is an excerpt from one of them:
Valiphotos / Pixabay The Fall season begins next month. You might be interested in The Best Sites For Images Of Fall Foliage (& For Teaching About The Season) .
Six years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in THE BEST ED TECH RESOURCES OF 2019 – PART ONE , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . You might also w
Q&A Collections: Math Instruction is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts offering advice on Math Instruction (from the past eight years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
I’m making a change in the content of the regular feature. In addition to sharing the top five posts that have received the most “hits” in the preceding seven days (though they may have originally been published on an earlier date), I will also include the top five posts that have actually appeared in the past week. Often, these are different posts. You might also be interested in IT’S THE TWELFT
Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES ON CLASS INSTRUCTION IN 2019 – PART ONE. Here are this week’s picks: My Favorite First-Day Activity is from Blue Book Diaries. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Planning The First Day Of School B
Alexas_Fotos / Pixabay We’re kicking-off a new season of my radio show this week with a show featuring Terri Watson, Chris Emdin and Shannon Waite examining the issue of what’s wrong with teachers saying “I don’t see race” or “I don’t see color.” Shannon is also guest-hosting a five-part series on the same topic at my Ed Week Teacher column beginning next week. I’m adding it to All My BAM Radio S
Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in THE BEST ARTICLES, VIDEOS & POSTS ON EDUCATION POLICY IN 2019 – PART ONE ): College Board Drops Its ‘Adversity Score’ For Each Student After Backlash is from NPR. “Great” Superintendents? Context and Longevity Matter is from Larry Cuban. The Thirteen Presenters Who Will Ruin Your First Day
How Do You Handle Feeling Frustrated in the Classroom? is the new question-of-the-week at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to leave responses in the comments section there or here…
geralt / Pixabay I’ve just mailed out the September issue of my very simple free monthly email newsletter . It has over 3,000 subscribers, and you can subscribe here . Of course, you can also join the eighteen thousand others who subscribe to this blog daily. Here Are 8 Ways You Can Subscribe For Free…
geralt / Pixabay Our school year begins this Thursday. For the first time ever, I have what appears to be a relatively sane schedule: a double period of English for newcomers, and three periods of IB Theory of Knowledge. Here’s a questionnaire I’ll be having my TOK students complete on the first day (actually, they’ll only have a little time in class to do it, and most will have it as “homework”
Ways to Strengthen Students’ Information-Literacy Skills is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. A series on teaching information literacy to students finishes up with suggestions from Elliott Rebhun, Dr. Laura Greenstein, Michael Fisher, Dr. Barbara R. Blackburn, and Douglas Reeves. Here are some excerpts:
I’m beginning my seventeenth year in the classroom this Thursday (sixteen at Luther Burbank High School – I taught middle school in my first year)! Wish me luck!
A lack of background knowledge can hinder reading comprehension is an article in Eureka Alert summarizing a new study finding what almost all teachers know – we have to activate students’ prior knowledge AND provide them with knowledge they’ll need to access our lessons. Obviously, the column of this post is sarcastic but, nevertheless, the study can function as an important reminder to educators
Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,070 of them categorized here ): THE BEST RESOURCES FOR TEACHING & LEARNING ABOUT THE TERRIBLE AMAZON FIRES THE BEST RESOURCES FOR TEACHING & LEARNING ABOUT GUN CONTROL USEFUL RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF BRINGING ENSLAVED AFRICANS TO AMERICA THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT PRO
DarkWorkX / Pixabay 440 Years Old And Filled With Footprints, These Aren’t Your Everyday Maps is an NPR story – with many images – of an exhibit in Texas showing maps made by indigenous mapmakers in the late 1500’s. You can see more of the maps at an interactive map, Relaciones Geográficas . I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Historic Maps .
is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, Carla Truttman, Josh Perlman, Jennifer Casa-Todd, Bryan Goodwin, Frank W. Baker share their suggestions for information-literacy lessons. Here are some excerpts:
I’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 19,000 resources there that I haven’t shared on this blog. I thought readers might find it useful if I began sharing a handful of my most recent “pins” each week (I’m not sure if you can see them through an RSS Reader – you might have to click through to the original post). You might also be interested in My Seven Most Popular Pins In 2018
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 older Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month (more recent lists can be found here ). You can also see my all-time favorites here . I’ve also been doing “A Look Back” series reviewing old favorite
OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay The Trump Administration is planning to implement rules that would negatively affect the chances of immigrants gaining permanent residency status or visa extensions if they use public benefits that
