Five Ways to Use Music in Lessons is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Five educators share ways to use music in lessons across the curriculum, including for textual analysis and to help create a positive classroom culture. Here are some excerpts:
OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay Every day, a new school district in Northern California is announcing they are going to full remote teaching in the fall. I suspect that similar announcements will be happening in other states, including Florida. It’s still unclear what’s going to happen in Sacramento. I’ve previously shared my own ideas about what I think would be good to happen (see FOR WHAT IT’S W
I’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 22,000 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 2020 – PAR
Nine 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 2020 – PART ONE , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this w
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from the first half of this year. You can see the entire collection of best posts from the past thirteen years here . When teaching English Language Learners, many – if not most – of us have students repeat newly-learned words chorally. It encourages shy students to practice pronunciation and dev
geralt / Pixabay Here are four new additions to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS : How 2020 Remapped Your Worlds is from Bloomberg and is a good lesson idea – have students draw maps of how “their” world looks right now. How a History Textbook Would Describe 2020 So Far is another good lesson idea – have students write what they think a chapter in a future
Skitterphoto / Pixabay The media blitz about school reopening continues. Here are four from the past twenty-four hours that are worth a read. I’m adding these to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : How to Reopen Schools: What Science and Other Countries Teach Us is from The NY Times. Trump Threatens to Turn Pandemic Schooling Into a Culture War is also from The NY
Here’s the next question-of-the-week at my Ed Week Teacher column: What are examples of projects your students have done to improve their community and how (and why) did you encourage them? You can send me your responses here or leave a comment on this post. Thanks!
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from the first half of this year. You can see the entire collection of best posts from the past thirteen years here . As regular readers know, three books following the format of our ELL Teacher’s Toolbox , and which Katie Hull and I edited , just came out (clicking on the covers below will lead
Here are some new videos I’m adding to various “Best” lists… I’m adding this first video to The Best Explanations For Why You Shouldn’t Say “All Lives Matter” : I’m adding these next two videos to HELPFUL RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT GEORGE FLOYD’S DEATH : I’m adding this next video to New & Revised: Resources To Help Us Predominantly White Teachers To Reflect On How Race Influences Our Work : An
Dyadya_Lyosha / Pixabay The massive media coverage continues about school reopening plans. Here are my choices for the top four that have appeared over the past twenty-four hours. I’m adding these to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Reopened schools in Europe and Asia have largely avoided coronavirus outbreaks. They have lessons for the U.S. is from The Washingt
Q&A Collections: Using Tech With Students is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts sharing advice on Using Tech With Students (from the past nine years!) are described and
