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
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
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:
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
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
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
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 :
