geralt / Pixabay I don’t think I’m ready to add any of these new resources to The “Best Of The Best” Resources To Support Teachers Dealing With School Closures , but they do look helpful, so they’re going on the much bigger The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! list: CRPE has published District Responses to COVID-19 Scho
Ways Educators Are Responding to School Closures is the headline of the third post in a series at my Education Week Teacher column. Five educators discuss ways to respond to the COVID-19 school shutdown crisis, including by listening, instead of talking, and by taking a step to “breathe.” Here are some excerpts:
OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay As regular readers know, I’ve been sharing posts here and in Ed Week including commentaries from teachers dealing with the transition to online learning. Next week, I’ll begin a special series on teaching English Language Learners. Supporting students with special needs has been an on-going concern among many . If you are a teacher of students with special needs, and
Teachers Share Their Online-Teaching Plans is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. It’s the second of many highlighting how teachers are managing the transition to online learning in the face of Coronavirus. Next week, I’ll be publishing several more, including a number specifically on teaching ELLs. I also hope to have posts on teaching students with special needs, and to hav
GDJ / Pixabay I’m adding this new NBC News video to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS. Especially in the second half of that list, you’ll find useful resources about the history of epidemics and about xenophobia.
StockSnap / Pixabay Getting access to research papers can be a real pain if you’re not part of an institution that subscribes to journals, though there are still ways to access them (see The Best Commentaries On Sci-Hub, The Tool Providing Access to 50 Million Academic Papers For Free and The Best Tools For Academic Research ). Because so many colleges have closed down and students have gone home
Strategies for Teaching Online in the Age of the Coronavirus is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four educators share how they are transitioning to online learning during the school closure crisis, including taking into account the importance of supporting students’ social and emotional health. Here are some excerpts:
I’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 21,000 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 Here
PublicDomainPictures / Pixabay Emily Francis shared this funny video on Twitter. It’s important to keep our sense of humor in these kinds of situations!
geralt / Pixabay I’ve just sent out ANOTHER special mid-month edition of usual free and simple monthly email newsletter (I emailed one earlier this week). This is the first time in ten years I’ve sent out more than just one newsletter at the end of the month. This special edition is designed to support teachers coping with school closures.It has over 3,000 subscribers, and you can subscribe here
geralt / Pixabay I’m pretty lucky because the last three months of my International Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge curriculum is mostly online anyway (an Oral Presentation and essay). You can see it at HERE’S MY ONLINE TEACHING PLAN IF OUR SCHOOL CLOSES DOWN BECAUSE OF THE CORONAVIRUS , However, I suspect most TOK teachers don’t have their classes set up that way, and are trying to figure out
kaboompics / Pixabay Though now there is a lot out there on teaching online, I’ll only be sharing ones that I believe should be added to The “Best Of The Best” Resources To Support Teachers Dealing With School Closures . Also, in a day-or-two, start looking for a series of commentaries at my Education Week Teacher column written by teachers explaining how they are managing the transition to onlin
natureaddict / Pixabay Today, two pieces have appeared discussing the possibility of expanded summer school (and the federal government paying for it) this year in an attempt to recover from school closures. Check these out: Using federal stimulus to get schools through the coronavirus crisis: The case for summer school and summer teacher pay is from Brookings. After coronavirus school closings,
geralt / Pixabay As we all try to get our heads around teaching online, I was thinking about teachers who don’t speak the home language of many of their students and the challenges that presents. I speak Spanish, and 90% of my students this year are Spanish-speaking, so it’s not an issue for me. However, when you’re looking at screens and are obviously more limited by what you can do to communica
As regular readers know, I’ve been recruiting teachers from a variety of areas and subjects to write about their experiences moving to online learning (see Let Me Know If You’re Teaching K-12 Students Online Because Of COVID-19 & Would Like To Write A Guest Post About Your Experiences ). Those commentaries will be appearing in Education Week and/or in this blog and have already begun ( Guest Post
Let Me Know If You’re Teaching K-12 Students Online Because Of COVID-19 & Would Like To Write A Guest Post About Your Experiences I’ve previously posted about Brainpop’s generous offer to provide free accounts while our schools are closed. Initially, it appeared to me that they were only offering one common sign-in for everyone at a school, and that students would have to email a teacher their te
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
After our Governor said last night that he didn’t expect California schools to reopen this year, I was inundated with panicky text from many of my students. I have been in regular touch with my Beginning ELL students, and this is what I sent to my ninety IB Theory of Knowledge students via Google Classroom: Several of you have texted me wondering about Governor Newsom’s comments tonight related t
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.
My Favorite Teacher ‘Showed Me How to Take Calculated Risks’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Five educators discuss their favorite teachers and highlight their credibility and caring, along with other attributes of being an outstanding teacher. Here are some excerpts:
GDJ / Pixabay I’m adding this new NY Times video to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS. Especially in the second half of that list, you’ll find useful resources about the history of epidemics and about xenophobia.
My latest ten-minute BAM! Radio Show is on making lessons more relevant to students’ lives . I’m joined in the conversation by Anabel Gonzalez, Marcy Webb, and Blanca Huertas. I’m adding this show to All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Descriptions . By the way, the show is now available on iHeartRadio . Look for the next show, which will have teachers talking about their transition to online le
Wokandapix / Pixabay Let Me Know If You’re Teaching K-12 Students Online Because Of COVID-19 & Would Like To Write A Guest Post About Your Experiences Most of us have at one time or another probably had our substitutes have students complete worksheets while we were out, which we may or may not have every looked at once we’ve gotten back. I’ve been thinking about that lately after I saw the resul
Note: I’m adding this guest post to The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! Cathy Vatterott is an educational consultant and professor emeritus at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She is the author of Rethinking homework: Best practices that support diverse needs, 2nd edition (ASCD, 2018) and Rethinking grading: Meani
NOTE: Yes, we all need to be focused on the Coronavirus crisis. But it can’t hurt to read about other topics now-and-then. I’ve recently begun this weekly post where I’ll be sharing resources I’m adding to The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources or other related “Best” lists. You might also be interested in THE BEST SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING RESOURCES OF 2019 – PART TWO Finally, check
Let Me Know If You’re Teaching K-12 Students Online Because Of COVID-19 & Would Like To Write A Guest Post About Your Experiences I’ve been sharing a lot of resources over the past week, and will continue to do so. However, it can be overwhelming – to me and to readers. This is a more narrow and focused list – just the resources that I think are the most useful – the “best of the best.” I don’t s
Our Favorite Teachers & Why We Remember Them is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. It also includes a commentary on the coronavirus crisis. Seven educators share the qualities of their favorite teachers, including consistency, providing support, and believing in their students. Here are some excerpts:
geralt / Pixabay I’ve just sent out a special mid-month edition of usual free and simple monthly email newsletter. It’s designed to support teachers coping with school closures.It has over 3,000 subscribers, and you can subscribe here . Of course, you can also join the eighteen thousand others who subscribe to this blog daily. Here Are 8 Ways You Can Subscribe For Free…
OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay Let Me Know If You’re Teaching K-12 Students Online Because Of COVID-19 & Would Like To Write A Guest Post About Your Experiences I thought that this kind of collection would go along with my previous three related lists: The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! THE FOUR BEST TOOLS FOR TAKING E
photosforyou / Pixabay Let Me Know If You’re Teaching K-12 Students Online Because Of COVID-19 & Would Like To Write A Guest Post About Your Experiences What a day, and it’s still 9:30 in the morning! It’s the first day of our closure, we’re supposed to learn from the district later today their plan going forward, the Remind app I use to communicate with students is down, a zillion things are hap
Alexey_Hulsov / Pixabay When teaching about the Coronavirus, this new Washington Post video could be useful. I’m adding it to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS. Especially in the second half of that list, you’ll find useful resources about the history of epidemics and about xenophobia.
TerriAnneAllen / Pixabay Here are new additions to The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! : Powerful Learning Practice is offering a free Remote Learning Webinar Series . Slate talked about Scholastic’s BookFlix service….Scholastic has created a generic login and password (username: Learning20 / password: Clifford) to unl
Reflections on Our Favorite Teachers is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four educators reflect on their own favorite teachers and the support and encouragement those past models provided to them. I also include this COVID-19 commentary: Editor’s Note: Obviously, the main thing on all of our minds is not the qualities of our favorite teachers—it’s the coronavirus and its i
PhotoMIX-Company / Pixabay I just learned that Google recently began a program called Google for Education Distance Learning Support Program: Google for Education offers distance learning support programs for schools that are closed. The contents include a Chromebook free loan, G Suite for Education new registration support, and online content for distance learning. Google mentioned it in a post
StartupStockPhotos / Pixabay I’ve obviously been spending a lot of time on online teaching and learning issues lately ( The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! ), and I’m not the only one. Interactive videos can be one helpful instructional tool. Here are my choices for the best – and easiest – ways taking any existing vid
I’m obviously spending a lot of time thinking about school closures, and the thought of closing down for the rest of the school year had not even occurred to me: The odds are “this is going to go on a lot longer and it would not surprise me at all if schools did not open again this year,” Ohio @GovMikeDeWine says about the long-term impact of the coronavirus. #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/i0luWcQVzX —
geralt / Pixabay I’ve just been sharing the resources that I feel to be particularly helpful and adding them to The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! At a certain point, however, it just gets to be too much. I’m probably approaching that time, and will likely begin reducing the number of related resources I’ll be sharing
pixelcreatures / Pixabay I’ve been publishing a series of posts to assist teachers who might need to teach online if their schools are closed because of the Coronavirus. You can see them all at The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! I’m also inviting teachers to write guest posts sharing their online teaching experiences
Eight 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
sinisamaric1 / Pixabay Civil Rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer died on this day in 1977. You might be interested in FANNIE LOU HAMER WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1917 – HERE ARE RELATED TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES . On this day in 1977, #FannieLouHamer died. We remember her courage, determination and bold leadership. #WomensHistoryMonth Watch and share this POWER. pic.twitter.com/s0kZDbxguL — The King
Simon / Pixabay Yesterday, two major companies announced that they would provide free Internet access to low-income families. That’s great, but of questionable value now that schools are closed and it’s difficult for teachers to communicate with students who don’t have Internet access already. Comcast Announces Comprehensive COVID-19 Response to Help Keep Americans Connected to the Internet is fr
geralt / Pixabay When teaching about the Coronavirus, this new CBS News video could be useful. I’m adding it to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS. Especially in the second half of that list, you’ll find useful resources about the history of epidemics and about xenophobia.
geralt / Pixabay Who knows what’s going to happen over the next few weeks? If you’re doing remote learning for the first time, I can imagine that things could be pretty crazy. If you’re school is closed and you’re not doing remote learning (see IF SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED & NOT DOING REMOTE LEARNING, HERE IS WHAT SCHOOLS ARE TELLING TEACHERS TO DO – WHAT ABOUT YOUR SITUATION? ), you might be required t
geralt / Pixabay I just made a few updates to HERE’S MY ONLINE TEACHING PLAN IF OUR SCHOOL CLOSES DOWN BECAUSE OF THE CORONAVIRUS . You might or might not want to check it out. We’re closed now, so we’ll see how effective it is….
geralt / Pixabay Our district is closed down and is not planning any kind of remote learning for students. On Monday, they say they will give us information on what their expectations for us is going to be during the closure. I thought it would be useful to ask this question on social media: If you’re a teacher at a closed school that is NOT doing remote learning, what is your district telling yo
geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! : How to Schedule and Host Google Hangouts Meet Events –
