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 TWO ): How Have Teachers Taught: A Look Backwards is by Larry Cuban. I’m adding it to The Best Resources To Learn About World Teachers Day , which also includes resources on the history of teaching. What if Children Ran t
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . Today, I’m highlighting an article I wrote for ASCD Educational Leadership on parent engagement that builds on work I wrote about in one of my books . It was published in 2009, and was titled Involvement Or Engagement? Here’s an excerp
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . Videotaping teachers the right way (not the Gates way) is a piece I wrote for Ed Week, and I continue to believe it’s the best thing I’ve ever written. Let me know what you think… Here’s an excerpt:
Over at Ed Week, I invite educators to contribute responses to future questions appearing on Classroom Q&A, the 10th anniversary of the blog aimed at making them–and their students–successful. Check out details over there!
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 CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION IN 2019 – PART TWO. Here are this week’s picks: The Critical Thinking Consortium has a lot of free materials, including this photo analysis sheet . If you pay $40 per year, you
I’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 20,000 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 MOST POPULAR PINS OF 2019 The f
Nennieinszweidrei / Pixabay Last month, the British Council published my piece titled My new classroom techniques and activities for 2019 . As we all know, it’s important for us teachers to try to keep things “fresh” for us so we don’t get stuck in a rut. I will be continuing to do those activities, as well as a ton of others I’ve used over the years. However, over the break I realized there were
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
chidioc / Pixabay Sacred Places, Sacred Ways: Five great religions, five revered spaces is a new interactive map. I’m adding it to The Best Websites To Learn About Various Religions & English .
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . Eight Things Skilled Teachers Think, Say, and Do is an article I wrote for ASCD Educational Leadership in October, 2012. ASCD stopped listing their most popular articles in September of last year, but for the eleven months up to that p
BiljaST / Pixabay Five years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2019 – PART ONE and THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2019 – PART TWO.
This year, as in all years past, there will be times when I’m feeling frustrated, disappointed, or impatient when I’m in the classroom. I’m going to try and keep “The Stonecutter’s Creedo” more in mind when that happens. I’m adding this to The Best Resources For Learning About “Grit”
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
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . Today, I’m sharing an article I wrote for The Huffington Post years ago where I take issue with advice from Seth Grodin where he basically says that if you have an idea you want to try, and it meets some resistance, you should just do
The new question-of-the-week at my Education Week Teacher column is: In what ways can writing support reading instruction? Please leave responses in the comments section….
skeeze / Pixabay When teaching English to older students, they sometimes – and understandably – get tired of reading books designed for much younger children. One way I deal with this challenge is by find more age-appropriate books in English that also have editions in their home languages, so they can read the books side-by-side (see USING “THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK” WITH ELL NEWCOMERS! ). Fortuna
Elements of an Effective Math Lesson is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, teachers explain how creative math lessons can spring from students’ surrounding environments and culture such as the cost of the Thanksgiving meal and the search for “math selfies.” Here are some excerpts:
12019 / Pixabay In Search of Refuge that is designed for “Mapping forced displacement from 1951 to 2017.” I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About World Refugee Day .
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . Today, I’m highlighting a piece I wrote in The Huffington Post over several years ago, What Do School Reform Technocrats and Failed Urban Renewal Schemes Have in Common? Here’s an excerpt:
Dylan Wiliam shared an incredibly important piece on Twitter explaining how Districts screw-up adopting materials, including technology. To start off with, here are a couple of tweets: Because they tend to be bad? https://t.co/qCKr6UZrGK — Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) December 31, 2019 Really, monumentally bad. — Tom Rademacher (@MrTomRad) December 31, 2019 Why aren’t teachers using the resour
geralt / Pixabay Obviously, a ton of other “Best” lists are useful to teachers of ELL Newcomers, including: The Best Online Resources For Teachers of Pre-Literate ELL’s & Those Not Literate In Their Home Language (which also includes SLIFE resources. “Best” Lists Of The Week: Thematic Lists For Beginner ELLs “Best” Lists Of The Week: Teaching ELLs But I thought teachers might also find it useful
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . Today, I’m highlighting a piece I wrote for The Washington Post several years ago titled Bribing students: Another ‘magical solution’ that doesn’t work . Here’s an excerpt:
I’m adding these new resources to various “Best” lists. You can find links to all of those many lists that relate to race and racism at “Best” Lists Of The Week: Resources For Teaching & Learning About Race & Racism: America’s schools are more diverse than ever. But the teachers are still mostly white. is from The Washington Post. I’m adding it to New & Revised: The Best Resources For Understandi
The University of Oklahoma’s K20 Center has a wealth of resources for educators! One is K20 Center Games , which has a number of fairly impressive learning games appropriate for high schoolers. Once you sign-up (for free), they’ll send you an email (mine took a few days, but that might because it’s holiday time). Then, you can easily create a virtual classroom and enroll students in it. K20 Learn
Eight Educators Share Their Best Math Lessons is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, Math educators share their favorite lessons, including taking students for a walk around a fenced-in field, investigating student-loan costs, and working alongside a language arts teacher. Here are some excerpts:
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . Today, I’m highlighting a piece I wrote for The Huffington Post a number of years ago, Being ‘Transactional’ Versus Being ‘Transformational’ in Schools . In it, I discuss how both community organizers, political scientists and educatio
geralt / Pixabay Every year about this time, I publish a post advertising the best free professional development for teachers of English Language Learners — The Electronic Village Online : For five weeks in January and February, TESOL experts and participants from around the world engage in collaborative online discussions or hands-on virtual workshops of professional and scholarly benefit. These
There is a long way to go, but some progress is being made increasing the number of characters in children’s books who are people of color. Read more about it at The Washington Post article, 11 trends that changed the way we read this decade . I’m adding this info to A Beginning Collection Of Resources About Books As “Windows, Mirrors & Sliding Glass Doors” – Please Suggest More .
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . Today, I’ve decided to share an article I wrote for The New York Times
