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Video & Transcript Of Greta Thunberg’s speech to world leaders at UN Climate Action Summit | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

A Very Busy Day Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007

Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3h

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: Limiting “Teacher Talk,” Increasing Student Work! is from Achieve The Core. When Middle School Students Think Like Historians appear

A Simple Way I Differentiate TPR (Total Physical Response) Lessons – Do You Have Other Suggestions?

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4h

harishs / Pixabay Most teachers of English Language Learners are familiar with TPR (Total Physical Response) – see The Best Resources For Learning About Total Physical Response (TPR) . TPR can probably be described most simply as a teacher (or a student) modeling an action at the same time as saying that action’s verb, and then students replicate the action. I recently observed our principal mode

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“Q&A Collections: Professional Collaboration”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

Q&A Collections: Professional Collaboration is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts offering advice on Professional Collaboration (from the past eight years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:

The Best Line Ever That Explains A Key “Advantage” Charters May Have Over Regular Public Schools

20by Larry Ferlazzo / 13h

Thanks to our former (and exceptional) principal, Ted Appel, I learned about a New York Times book review that recently appeared about Robert Pondiscio’s new book about the large charter school network in New York City called Success Academy. The review was written by Dale Russakoff , who I’ve previously talked about in this blog . I’ve also posted an interview I did a few years ago with Robert P

You Might – Or Might Not – Find This Three Minute Video Useful Of Me Talking About Student Motivation

by Larry Ferlazzo / 13h

suju / Pixabay Awhile back, a Swedish TV show on education interviewed me via Skype about student motivation. The show just came out, and they included what I think is a relatively decent three minute clip of me talking about student motivation and growth mindset. I’ve linked directly to that short clip here (they don’t allow embedding). You might, or might not, find it useful. I’m adding it to a

“Speek” Lets You Easily Record Online Messages

by Larry Ferlazzo / 14h

GraphicMama-team / Pixabay Speek is a new website that lets you record audio of a message and then share a link or embed it somewhere, like this: Of course, there are a zillion phone apps (like FlipGrid where you can record audio while showing yourself or, even better with students because of privacy concerns, images) or Vocaroo (which is not ideal these days because it requires Flash) that let y

Video & Transcript Of Greta Thunberg’s speech to world leaders at UN Climate Action Summit

by Larry Ferlazzo / 14h

geralt / Pixabay Here’s the transcript and video of Greta Thunberg’s speech today. I’m adding it to THE BEST RESOURCES ON TEENS DEMANDING AN EFFECTIVE RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE :

Video & Transcript Of Greta Thunberg’s speech to world leaders at UN Climate Action Summit | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...