Tumisu / Pixabay Yesterday, I shared my predictions of what the next school year might look like (see It’s Going To Be A New Classroom World In The Fall – Here Is What I Think It Might Look Like ). Today, I thought I’d write about
How to Assess Students’ Math Skills Remotely is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. It’s Part two of a two-part series, and is written by by New York City high school math teachers Bobson Wong and Larisa Bukalov. They are the authors of The Math Teacher’s Toolbox (Jossey-Bass, 2020) and recipients of the Math for America Master Teacher Fellowship. You might reminder that Kati
‘Less Is More’ in Math Distance Learning is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four math educators offer advice about remote instruction, including providing more specific targets and cultivating home connections. Here are some excerpts:
Free-Photos / Pixabay A teacher predicts what his classroom (and others) will look like in the fall is the headline The Washington Post used when they republished my popular blog post from yesterday. In addition to the post, Wash. Post journalist Valerie Strauss wrote a very nice several paragraph introduction. I’m adding it to the collection of probably hundreds of other articles I’ve written ov
A new follow-up study of first generation college students found that, particularly for African-Americans who had participated in the simple one-hour intervention, its effectiveness carried years into adulthood. In the intervention, younger students basically heard from older ones about the challenges they had faced and how they had overcome them, and then the younger students wrote about the exp
April’s unemployment figures came out this morning, and they are awful. What is going to be gained by failing a student this year? What is going to be gained by putting any kind of pressure on our students right now? Shouldn’t we just be making any kind of class work purely voluntary at this point? I’m adding this info to The Best Places To Learn What Impact A Teacher (& Outside Factors) Have On
Math Instruction in the Age of the Coronavirus is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. It’s Part one of a two-part series, and is written by by New York City high school math teachers Bobson Wong and Larisa Bukalov. They are the authors of The Math Teacher’s Toolbox (Jossey-Bass, 2020) and recipients of the Math for America Master Teacher Fellowship. You might reminder that Ka
BiljaST / Pixabay Six 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. A
GDJ / Pixabay I’ve been sharing various posts about what the next school year might look like (see THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL ). Here is what I think it’s going to look like in many high school classrooms (and very possibly in elementary and middle schools, too), including my own: There will be some kind of staggered attendance – either by days or morning/af
Student: Online Learning Is ‘Stressful and Irritating’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four students – from California, Minnesota, and France – discuss their varying experiences with online learning, including their pros and cons. Here are some excerpts:
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
Not many new resources are making it onto The “Best Of The Best” Resources To Support Teachers Dealing With School Closures , but PBLWorks’ new PBL For Remote Learning is going there right now. It’s full of useful and practical information, including lots of examples.
TIME For Kids has announced they are starting to make their materials available in different language. They’ve begun in Spanish, and plan to expand to other languages in the next few weeks. While I was checking it out, I discovered that it also offers the same articles in three different lexile levels. Like many companies, they’re making their site free through the end of the year. I’m adding thi
Wokandapix / Pixabay I have a number of regular weekly features (see HERE IS A LIST (WITH LINKS) OF ALL MY REGULAR WEEKLY FEATURES ). This is a relatively new addition to that list. Some of these resources will be added to The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions ! and the best will go to The “Best Of The Best” Resources To
Students Reflect on Their Distance Learning Experiences is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Six students, from the ages of 7 to 17, share their thoughts about online learning – both the good and the bad. Here are some excerpts:
janeb13 / Pixabay The 75th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany will be celebrated in Europe on Friday. You might be interested in: The Best Online Resources For Teaching & Learning About World War II (Part One) The Best Online Resources For Teaching & Learning About World War II (Part Two)
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 ): A School Experiment to Remember is from Larry Cuban, and is pretty interesting. School Reform Metaphors: The Pendulum and Hurricane is also from Larry Cuban. The Coronavirus Pandemic and K-12 Education Funding is f
Today’s Guardian article, ‘A year to be better’: Abby Gustaitis on lockdown and the lure of Olympic rugby gold , included that wonderful quote in the text box above. I’m adding it to: A Beginning List For Learning About The 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics The Best Resources On Helping Our Students Develop A “Growth Mindset”
is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. High school students reveal what they like about remote learning, what they don’t like, and whether they’d prefer online learning or getting their education in school. Here are some excerpts:
TheDigitalArtist / Pixabay Learning and the Brain is the theme of this month’s issue of ASCD Educational Leadership, and it has several excellent articles that are not behind a paywall: The Sciences of Teaching is by Carol Ann Tomlinson and David A. Sousa. I’m adding it to Best Posts On “Motivating” Students . Building Meaning Builds Teens’ Brains is by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang and Douglas R. Kn
slavoljubovski / Pixabay TED-Ed’s new lesson and video is certainly on a matter of great interest these days. I’m adding it to Four Videos About Soap .
What We’ve Learned From 30 Days of Distance Learning is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Five educators write about the lessons they have learned after a month of distance learning, among them, a renewed emphasis on the importance of relationships and connections. Here are some excerpts:
Victoria_Borodinova / Pixabay TED-Ed has just released a lesson and video about the Salem Witch Trials. Up until a year or so, I had not been able to find any decent videos to use when teaching my ELL U.S. History class about the trials, so it’s nice to find another one. I’m adding it to the post on my U.S. History class blog that contains the other useful clips on the topic.
One of the books we read in my ELL U.S. History class is The Long March: The Choctaw’s Gift to Irish Famine Relief . It tells the story of how some survivors of the Trail Of Tears raised money to help the Irish suffering from the Great Potato Famine (you can see the writing prompt I use at the end here ). Two years ago, the Irish Prime Minister visited Oklahoma to thank the Native Americans for t
Clker-Free-Vector-Images / Pixabay I did not have a good day today. It didn’t start off well when there was a city-wide Xfinity Internet outage because of a construction accident. Then it got worse as I considered the implications of three articles that came out. First, President Trump said that teachers who were 60 or 65 might not be able to teach in the classroom for awhile when schools re-open
From the Star Wars site : “May the 4th be with you.” What started as pun warmly shared by fans has become a full-fledged Star Wars holiday: Star Wars Day, a special once-a-year celebration of the galaxy far, far away. Here are three related resources: First, awhile back I wrote a column for Education Week headlined What ‘Star Wars’ Can Teach Educators About Parent Engagement . Secondly, here’s a
Five Ways to Differentiate Instruction in an Online Environment is the headline of my latest Ed Week Teacher column. Examples from two educators include giving students the time to take physical breaks as well as pausing academic presentations to give students time to think. Here’s an excerpt:
Seven Ways to Support ELLs in Online Content Classes is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. I offer seven suggestions of how to help English-learners when doing remote teaching, including by providing graphic organizers and models. Here’s an excerpt:
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
A Third of Teachers Are at Higher Risk of Severe Illness From COVID-19 is a worrying article in Ed Week. I’m adding it to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL .
You can use Wiki-Atlas to explore the locations in any area that are listed as Wikipedia entries. It seems to me that it would be interesting for students to see what places in their town or city were thought to be worthy of being in Wikipedia and to learn about the ones they didn’t know about previously. And, if you’re really ambitious, students could also brainstorm what places are presently om
Wokandapix / Pixabay I have a number of regular weekly features (see HERE IS A LIST (WITH LINKS) OF ALL MY REGULAR WEEKLY FEATURES ). This is a relatively new addition to that list. Some of these resources will be added to The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions ! and the best will go to The “Best Of The Best” Resources To
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
BiljaST / Pixabay Six 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. A
Black Students Need Love Shown Through Action Right Now is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Shannon R. Waite, Ed.D., writes that Black students need to be shown love during the pandemic, and that love should be demonstrated through developing “a critical consciousness in teachers and administrators.” Here are some excerpts:
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. Of course, this is a crazy time for “classroom” instruction…. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES ON CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION IN 2019 – PART TWO. Here are this week’s picks: Should We Be Using Words Correct Per Minute? is from Timothy Shana
nastya_gepp / Pixabay PBS’ “Above The Noise” videos are great – they always have accompanying lesson plans and transcripts, and they cover timely topics of interest to young people. In addition, they have a direct connection to Google Classroom and offer their videos in versions on and off YouTube in case you’re in districts that make poor decisions (like ours) to have extraordinarily strict limi
geralt / Pixabay I’ve just mailed out the May issue of my very simple free monthly email newsletter . I sent out two special coronavirus-related editions of the newsletter earlier in March. This is the “regular” monthly version. 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 Yo
As regular readers know, at the end of each week I share the five most popular posts from the previous seven days. I thought people might find it interesting to see a list of the ten most popular posts from the previous thirty days. You might also be interested in It’s The Thirteenth Anniversary Of This Blog – Here Are The Forty All-Time Most Popular Posts. Not to mention THE MOST POPULAR POSTS F
Six Weeks Into Remote Teaching & Still Learning … is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four teachers–from 2nd grade to high school–discuss what they’ve learned over the past six weeks of remote teaching, including the need to provide less work and more support to their students. Here are some excerpts:
(Note: I am going to publish this same post once each month to remind regular readers and inform newer ones about how to access my “Best” lists) As regular readers know, I have about 2,100 categorized and regularly updated “Best” lists. You can find all of them in broad categories here . The link to that page can also be found at the top right of my blog: My Best Of Series I also have them all on
May 4th-8th is Teacher Appreciation Week in the United States. You can find a ton of related resources at The Best Resources To Learn About World Teachers Day .
jonye123 / Pixabay Though May Day is an ancient celebration , since the late nineteenth century it has primarily been recognized as a time to celebrate workers’ rights. Though it’s unlikely that there will be the usual demonstrations today, you still might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About May Day .
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 out “Best”
