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A VERY BUSY DAY Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007


A VERY BUSY DAY
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
The latest news and resources in education since 2007


Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
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
It Will Have Been 100 Years In August Since Some Women Were Granted The Right To Vote – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
August will mark one-hundred years since the passage of the 19th Amendment. There will be lots of new resources coming online between now and then like today’s NY Times article, My _____ Was a Suffragist. I’ll be adding many to The Best Resources For Learning About Women’s Suffrage .
Study Finds One-Third Of U.S. Fifteen Year-Olds Feel Disconnected From School – & That Was Before The Pandemic
If we high school teachers weren’t feeling bad enough thinking about what the fall might bring, a new study from UNESCO may make us all feel worse. Ed Week’s article about it, Part of Global Trend, 1 in 3 U.S. High Schoolers Felt Disconnected From School Before Pandemic , provides a good summary, and the textbox at the top of this blog highlights the “lowlight” of it. I think it’s a safe bet that
“Q&A Collections: Student Motivation & Social-Emotional Learning”
Q&A Collections: Student Motivation & Social-Emotional Learning is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts sharing advice on Student Motivation & Social-Emotional Learning (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
A Look Back: New Study Finds That Peer Assessment Works – Pretty Much Any Way You Do It
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 . The Impact of Peer Assessment on Academic Performance: A Meta-analysis of Control Group Studies is a new meta-analysis on peer assessment, and it’s not behind a paywall. I’ve shar
Would You Like To Write About Your COVID-19 Teaching Experience For Ed Week?
diapicard / Pixabay As you may know, I’ve been doing a very popular teacher advice column in Education Week for ten years. It’s set up so readers send in questions to me, and then I invite guests to contribution 300- or 400-word responses, as well as printing shorter reader comments. In addition to directly inviting scores of educators I know to respond to those questions, I always put out an ann
Just Sent-Out Free Monthly Email Newsletter
geralt / Pixabay I’ve just mailed out the July issue of my very simple free monthly email newsletter . 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…
June’s Most Popular Posts
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
June’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 2,180 Of Them!
Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,180 of them categorized here ): THE BEST FUN VIDEOS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN 2020 – PART ONE THE BEST ONLINE LEARNING GAMES – 2020 (PART ONE) THE BEST SCIENCE SITES OF 2020 – PART ONE VISUAL COLLECTIONS OF PROTESTS ABOUT GEORGE FLOYD, POLICE VIOLENCE & RACISM TEACHING RESOURCES ABOUT IF POLICE SHOUL
July 1st Is Canada Day – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
July 1st is Canada Day : On July 1, 1867, the nation was officially born when the Constitution Act joined three provinces into one country: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Canada province, which then split into Ontario and