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
Q&A Collections: Professional Collaboration is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts on Professional Collaboration (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
stevepb / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : The Inanity of Zoom School Suspensions is from The NY Times. Coronavirus Schools Briefing: Lunch Along With Learning is from The NY Times. Love or hate them, pandemic learning pods are here to stay — and could disrupt American education is from The Washington Post. Biden Calls School Re
As education researcher Robert Marzano writes : Positive relationships between teachers and students are among the most commonly cited variables associated with effective instruction. If the relationship is strong, instructional strategies seem to be more effective. Conversely, a weak or negative relationship will mute or even negate the benefits of even the most effective instructional strategie
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
Lessons for Teachers From George Floyd’s Death & Black Lives Matter is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four educators share changes they are making in their teaching as a result of the violent death of George Floyd and subsequent protests, such as trying to leave a deficit framework behind and looking at more systemic causes of racism. Here are some excerpts:
hitesh0141 / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Why Does My Kid’s Online School Still Start at 7:50 in the Freaking Morning? is from Slate. How 3 Countries Are Educating Their Kids During The Pandemic is from NPR.
stux / Pixabay Dysfunction in our district is beyond belief. Tchers were told we didn’t need invite stdnts 2 Google Classroom & dist would do it 1st day of class. It didn’t work. Now we have to send out invites manually. But dist won’t cancel PD we’re in. Schl starts in hour. — Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) September 3, 2020 So, everyone has cameras off, turned off volume and sending out invite
AnnaliseArt / Pixabay Here are three new additions to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION : The Battleground States Biden and Trump Need to Win 270 is a cool interactive from The NY Times. The True Colors of America’s Political Spectrum Are Gray and Green is also from The NY Times. Election 2020 is from Scholastic.
The new TED-Ed lesson and video is on “Why people fall for misinformation.” I’m adding it to The Best Tools & Lessons For Teaching Information Literacy – Help Me Find More .
Q&A Collections: Best of Classroom Q&A is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. The “Best” Classroom Q&A posts (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
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
Clker-Free-Vector-Images / Pixabay September 16th is Mexico’s Independence Day. You might be interested in: The Best Resources For Learning About Mexico’s Independence Day The Best Sites For Learning About Mexico, Central & South America
Federal legislation requires schools in the United States to offer lessons related to the U.S. Constitution on U.S. Constitution Day — September 17th of each year. You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About The Constitution Of The United States .
geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Teachers in Texas Are Fighting for Their Lives is from The New Yorker. Is it Safe to Send Your Kids to School? is from The NY Times.
geralt / Pixabay I shared this on Twitter this afternoon: These r my criteria 4 success this year in 100% distance learning: *Do students come 2 my class? *Do they learn something valuable? * Do they feel coming 2 my class makes their lives better? What REALISTIC suggestions should b added (only from people doing distance learning)? — Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) September 2, 2020 As you see,
472301 / Pixabay I have previously shared a number of posts (see HERE ARE DETAILED – & TENTATIVE – DISTANCE LEARNING PLANS FOR ALL MY FALL CLASSES ) laying out my plans for this school year, which begins TOMORROW! Those plans continue to be more-or-less accurate, though some of the online tools I mentioned in them might be a bit different. I made a point of writing that some things were likely to
Maklay62 / Pixabay Exceptional teacher and colleague Jen Adkins shared this with our school’s faculty today as we prepare for the first day of school….TOMORROW! It’s well worth watching by everyone:
Educators Must Challenge Racist Language & Actions is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Five educators offer recommendations about confronting colleagues who engage in racist language and actions, such as highlighting the differences between “impact” and “intent” and referencing school institutional values. Here are some excerpts:
PublicDomainPictures / Pixabay It’s the beginning of the year, and a lot of us teachers will be doing lots of formal and informal assessments to figure out where our students “are.” As Dylan Wiliam wrote in an Ed Week post yesterday : rather than relying on commercially produced tests, teachers would be better advised to use quick surveys of student achievement. These sort of assessments could ta
GDJ / Pixabay Here’s how today’s Washington Post editorial begins: “THE STRUGGLE of man against power,” wrote Czech novelist Milan Kundera, “is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” This is precisely where the Rohingya Muslims find themselves today, three years after 750,000 people were terrorized and torched out of their homes by Myanmar’s security forces and forced into miserable camps in
mohamed_hassan / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : New York City Delays Start of School to Ready for In-Person Classes is from The NY Times. Zoom overload, COVID-19 hardship: Thousands of kindergartners vanish from local schools is from The LA Times. Maryland and D.C. turn on their computers for the first day of virtual school is
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
Q&A Collections: Instructional Strategies is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts on Instructional Strategies (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
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 INSTRUCTION IN 2020 – PART ONE. Here are this week’s picks: This month’s issue of ASCD’s Educational Leadership is on grading. Here are
StockSnap / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Teachers across the world concerned as schools reopen despite rising cases is from NBC News. Florida students head back to class amid reports of more kids catching COVID-19 is from NBC News. A summary of April-August 2020. Public school officials to Congress: Give us more money to hel
geralt / Pixabay The United Nations has declared September 8th to be International Literacy Day. You might be interested in The Best Resources For International Literacy Day .
geralt / Pixabay TED-Ed’s new video and lesson has a weird title, but has good content. You might also be interested in: IF YOU NEVER BOTHERED LEARNING ABOUT CHOMSKY’S THEORY OF UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR (LIKE ME), THE NEW TED-ED VIDEO IS FOR YOU! The Best Videos Documenting The History Of The English Language
Earlier this year , The NY Times offered free subscriptions to any U.S. high school teacher and their students who were at Title 1 schools. Now, however, they’ve expanded that offer to make it available to any and all high schools in the U.S. Apply here . Here’s their announcement : The mission of The New York Times — to seek the truth and help people understand the world — is critically importan
University and college administrators are acting like first-year K-12 teachers in dealing with the pandemic. As many articles document, they are leading with threats and punishments. The University of California campus in Davis, California, where I live, is even hiring student “advisors” to report on students violating social distancing rules. An NPR story today highlights how, as any experienced
Q&A Collections: Professional Development is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts on Professional Development (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
mohamed_hassan / Pixabay election headquarters is from iCivics. Letters to the Next President: Guidelines for Promoting Civic Writing is from the WRITE Center. Teach and Learn With the 2020 Election is from The NY Time Learning Network. You will find more infographics at Statista
Events this week have – once again – highlighted why we (and I mean us white educators) need to emphasize anti-racist education. I’m adding these new resources to various “Best” lists. You can find links to all of those many lists that relate to race and racism at “Best” Lists Of The Week: Resources For Teaching & Learning About Race & Racism: Six questions about slavery reparations, answered is
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
As you may know, my Education Week column is set up so readers send in questions to me, and then I invite guests to contribution 400- or 500-word responses, as well as printing shorter reader comments. I know a lot of educators, and, in fact, many have already contributed responses to questions for the fall. However, there are a far greater number of talented educators I do not know. I’m adding s
Q&A Collections: Teacher Leadership is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts on Relationships in Schools (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
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 ): The 52nd Annual PDK Poll on education was released. It was conducted pre-COVID and prior to George Floyd’s murder, so I think the responses may have to be taken with a grain of salt. School Choice Was the Main Poli
viarami / Pixabay Knowing how to split a screen on Chromebooks is an important skill for students to know. It can help students take notes on a presentation they are also watching but, for me, the most important reason is so they can see their classmates in breakout rooms when they are working on collaborative projects. I have a video from Kahoot at THE BEST VIDEO TUTORIALS ON TEACHING REMOTELY –
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
geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : California issues new guidance to reopen schools. What does this mean for your child? is from The Sacramento Bee. Why the breakdown of stimulus talks is doubly painful for schools: no money and added uncertainty is from Chalkbeat. How Many Coronavirus Cases Are Happening In Schools? This
Here’s how the Crash Course site describes this video: At the end of our journey through modern European history, we’re taking an episode to look back at how the practice of history developed and what the aim and goals and purpose of history have been. We’ll also take time to consider how we should approach history research and writing going forward. Of course, since it’s part of their European H
Alexandra_Koch / Pixabay Anyone who has used Zoom knows that the breakout rooms feature is gold. One of their shortcomings, however, is that they don’t allow easy student choice for which rooms they get to enter. A
