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
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 TWO , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this we
How Can Instructional Coaches & Teachers Work Best Together? is the new question-of-the-week at my Ed Week Teacher column. Feel free to leave responses in the comments sections there or here…
I’m beginning to republish posts that made it onto my A LOOK BACK: 2019’S BEST POSTS FROM THIS BLOG – PART TWO list. GDJ / Pixabay This is a question I’ve been thinking about for awhile, and I’m eager to hear answers from readers. Lots of people give advice about classroom instruction, but who should we really take seriously? There seems to me some fairly obvious people who go on the list, like o
It’s a Great Lesson When Students ‘Want to Continue Their Own Learning’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. This two-part series on best social studies lessons is “wrapped up” today by commentaries from Rachel Johnson, Dawn Mitchell, Julie Stern, Cynthia W. Resor, Andrew Sharos, Lori Oczkus, and Keisha Rembert. Here are some excerpts:
ulleo / Pixabay Here are new additions to The Best Sites To Teach and Learn About Thanksgiving : Teaching Thanksgiving is from NPR. The Year Abraham Lincoln Declared Thanksgiving is from Slate. Lesson plan: After helping Pilgrims, today’s Wampanoags fight for their ancestral lands is from The PBS NewsHour.
Katie Hull and I have just begun work on the second edition of our popular The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide . We’re about a year behind our original timetable for revising it because we spent the past twelve months editing three books in our Toolbox series (see The Math, Science & Social Studies Books We’re Editing Are Now Available For Pre-Order! ). The second edition of The Survival Guide w
There are a lots of questions about the use of “Value-Added Measurements” in teacher evaluations (see The Best Resources For Learning About The “Value-Added” Approach Towards Teacher Evaluation ). Now, another study questions its use in hiring and firing decisions. Check out Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale (it’s not behind a paywall).
GDJ / Pixabay The United Nations has declared December 1st to be World AIDS Day . You might be interested in The Best Web Resources For Learning About HIV & AIDS .
