What Is The Best Teaching Advice You’ve Received Or Have Given?This is next week’s question at my Education Week column. Feel free to respond in the ways listed on the image, or just leave a comment here on this post. I think it will be a great series!
Interesting Interactive: “Who Americans Spend Their Time With, by Age”geralt / Pixabay Who Americans Spend Their Time With, by Age is an interesting interactive from Visual Capitalist, and you can see their summary of it here. I’m adding it to The Best Visualizations Of How People Spend Their Days (the data is based on pre-COVID info).
Ed Tech DigestTen 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 TWO , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this we
New Study Finds That The Presence Of Immigrant Students In Schools Helps Everybody, But Totally Misses Obvious ReasonA new study, titled Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students , by David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Riccardo Marchingiglio, Umut Özek & Paola Sapienza, comes to conclusions that many teachers already knew – that the presence of immigrant students definitely does not negatively impact non-immigrant students and, in fact, results in increased achievement
“Eight Instructional Strategies for Promoting Critical Thinking”Eight Instructional Strategies for Promoting Critical Thinking is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Four educators share tips for supporting the development of critical thinking in the classroom. Here are some excerpts:
Monday’s Must-Read Articles & Must-Watch Videos On School Reopeningsmoritz320 / Pixabay California adopts 3-foot-spacing rule for classrooms, changing reopening equation is from The L.A. Times. Education secretary says school in the fall ‘will look more like what it was before Covid’ is from CNN. This is a video from The Wall Street Journal : 3 different parent polls suggesting hybrid is the worst of all worlds. 1/ https://t.co/HX1d7kbiCl — Anya Kamenetz (@anya1a
It’s The First Day Of Spring! Here Are Teaching & Learning ResourcesJillWellington / Pixabay Today is the first day of spring! You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About The Spring Season .
Two Cool Infographics About LanguageThe Visual Capitalist comes up with some great infographics. I’m adding these two to The Best “Language Maps” : You can find more information about this infographic at Ranked: The Countries with the Most Linguistic Diversity And you can find more information about this next one at The World’s Top 10 Most Spoken Languages
Ramadan Begins On April 12th – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resourcesmohamed_hassan / Pixabay Ramadan begins next month. If you want to get a head-start on planning some lessons, you might be interested in The Best Sites To Teach & Learn About Ramadan .
Video: “The Pony Express”Didgeman / Pixabay I’m kicking myself because this new video from Simple History reminded me that I had forgotten to include teaching anything about the Pony Express in my ELL U.S. History class this year. Why is that a big deal, you might ask? Well, its ending destination was here in Sacramento, and we’ve got a big Pony Express statue downtown. I’m posting this here because, one, it’s a good vid
My Most Popular Tweets Of The MonthPhotoMIX-Company / Pixabay I used to post weekly collections of my best tweets, and used Storify to bring them together. Unfortunately, Storify went under. Fortunately, however, Wakelet was a new tool that was able to import all of a person’s Storifys. So you can see all those previous Twitter “Best” lists here . You might also be interested in MY MOST POPULAR TWEETS OF THE YEAR and RECOMMENDATIO
Our Teachers’ Union Local Has Reached An Agreement With The District To Begin Face-To-Face Instruction Next Month!Free-Photos / Pixabay Oof, I forgot to include a specific congratulations to @ShanaJust , one of our school's representatives on the bargaining team who has worked tirelessly for students, their families and us teachers! https://t.co/UDc6anfg8d — Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) March 20, 2021 The great bargaining team of our union was able to reach an agreement with the district for reopening to
Good Piece On The Bad Term, “Learning Loss”Ron Berger, who is an exceptional educator and leads EL Education, just wrote a good piece in the Atlantic, How to Get Our Kids Back on Track . The quote in the textbox gives you an idea of the tone. I’m adding it to Trying To Bring Research, Sanity, Teacher Expertise & Student Voice To The “Learning
