pinkzebra / Pixabay The Atlantic Magazine recently began publishing a series of photos about each U.S. state. Unfortunately, they also began a metered “Paywall,” so you can only access a few of their articles each month without buying a subscription. They certainly could come in handy when teaching Geography. So far, they’ve done slideshows on: Wyoming Georgia Indiana Hawaii South Carolina
biancamentil / Pixabay This new Simon’s Cat video for Valentine’s Day joins several others at The Best Sites To Learn About Valentine’s Day . They’re great to show to ELLs, who then have to talk and write about what they saw. I’ll be showing them on Friday!
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 Secret To Giving Great Feedback is a new and short TED Talk that offers a simple, but useful, formula to keep in mind when g
Tumisu / Pixabay Thanks to Jenn Binis , I learned about this great video from YelloPain. It would obviously have to be played at a slow-speed for ELLs, but all students could do an analysis of it:
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 THIRTE
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 . I originally shared this series of posts in 2010. You might also be interested in The Best Sites To Teach About African-American History . In addition, you might also find these related posts useful: Researchers Find That Science Textb
12 Ways to Make Culturally Responsive Instruction Work in Your Classroom is the topic of my latest ten-minute BAM! Radio show. I’m joined in the conversation by Lisa Stringfellow, Rocio P. del Castillo, Maurice McDavid, and Valentina Gonzalez, who have also all contributed written commentaries to my Education Week Teacher column. I’m adding this show to All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Descri
geralt / Pixabay English Language Learners in the United States are required to regularly take an English Language Proficiency Assessment to….assess their progress towards learning English. Several years ago, the federal government funded two separate state consortia to develop new versions of these tests (you can read many articles about that saga in the second-half of The Best Resources For Lea
Free-Photos / Pixabay This New Yorker animated video might provide a powerful language experience for English Language Learners to watch and then write about what they saw, as well as potentially connect to writing about
