Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELLBiljaST / 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 2020. Also, check out A Collection Of My Best Resources On Teaching English Language Learners. In additi
My Favorite Posts That Appeared In JuneI regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see older Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month (more recent lists can be found here ). You can also see my all-time favorites here . I’ve also been doing “A Look Back” series reviewing old favorite
Most Popular Posts Of The WeekI’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 FOURTE
June’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 2,258 Of Them!Prawny / Pixabay Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,258 of them categorized here ): THE BEST SCIENCE SITES OF 2021 – PART ONE THE BEST SOCIAL STUDIES WEBSITES OF 2021 – PART ONE THE BEST TOOLS FOR TAKING STUDENTS “AROUND THE WORLD” RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT ATTACKS ON “CRITICAL RACE THEORY,” THE 1619 PROJECT & ATTEMPTS TO STOP EDUCATORS F
Critical Race Theory Hysteria Continues – Here Are Eight New Useful ResourcesHere are new additions to RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT ATTACKS ON “CRITICAL RACE THEORY,” THE 1619 PROJECT & ATTEMPTS TO STOP EDUCATORS FROM TEACHING ABOUT SYSTEMIC RACISM : ‘Critical Race Theory Is Simply the Latest Bogeyman.’ Inside the Fight Over What Kids Learn About America’s History is from TIME. What the hysteria over critical race theory is really all about is from Vox. This is just so ex
The Best Resources (& Templates) For “One-Pagers” That Students Can Use To Show Their LearningEdurs34 / Pixabay “One-pagers” are new trending name for an activity that teachers have had students do for a long time – make a poster using certain parameters to demonstrate something that they learned. I’ve previously posted about one type at The Best Ways To Use “3-2-1″ As An Instructional Strategy . A nice thing about the fact that the term “one-pagers” has become popular, though, is that th
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 2021 – PART ONE , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this we
June’s Most Popular PostsAs 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 FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS BLOG – HERE ARE THE FORTY ALL-TIME MOST POPULAR POSTS . Not to mention THE TWENTY MOST POPULAR
New Meta-Analysis Finds Something That Is No Surprise To Teachers: Differentiation WorksDifferentiated Literacy Instruction: Boondoggle or Best Practice? is a new meta-analysis by Kelly Puzio, Glenn T. Colby and Dana Algeo-Nichols. To no one’s surprise, it found that differentiated instruction was effective for elementary literacy instruction. I found the entire study useful because it gives an excellent research-based description and history of differentiated instruction. Unfortuna
More Important Resources On How Critiques Of Critical Race Theory Are Being Used To Stop Us From Teaching About Systemic RacismHere are new additions to RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT ATTACKS ON “CRITICAL RACE THEORY,” THE 1619 PROJECT & ATTEMPTS TO STOP EDUCATORS FROM TEACHING ABOUT SYSTEMIC RACISM : This NPR interview with Gloria Ladson-Billings is really good. Republicans, spurred by an unlikely figure, see political promise in targeting critical race theory is from The Washington Post. Texas’ ban on critical race theor
The Best Science Sites Of 2021 – Part OneIt’s time for another “Best” list! I’ll be adding this list to I’m adding this post to All 2021 Mid-Year “Best” Lists In One Place! You can see all previous editions of this Science list, along with other Science-related “Best” lists, here (Best lists on Planets & Space are here ). Let me know what I’m missing…: NOT NECESSARILY THE “BEST,” BUT SOME USEFUL RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT THE MARS ROV
Four (Maybe) Counter-Intuitive “Takeaways” From Teaching & Learning During A PandemicYesterday, I shared my primary “takeaway” from the past fifteen months at “KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THE 2020/2021 SCHOOL YEAR.” Here are four more that I think should inform education’s future (but probably won’t): We educators should spend less time teaching in the classroom and, instead, spend more time in collaborative lesson planning and professional development. The United States is second in the
“Teaching Writing Requires Leaving Students With an ‘I Can Do It!’ Spirit”Teaching Writing Requires Leaving Students With an ‘I Can Do It!’ Spirit is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Three educators share suggestions for writing instruction, including a visual-thinking strategy. Here are some excerpts:
“Comics for Inclusive English Language Learning” Is An Amazing Resource For ELLs & OthersThanks to Sandy Millin , I just learned about Comics for Inclusive English Language Learning . It’s an amazing site with high-interest comics with audio support provided to the text. They are leveled based on English proficiency. It’s a great place for Intermediates to get reading material. But it’s much more than that…. After each comic, readers learn the structures for writing essays through an
Statistic Of The Day: “More Than 1 Million Students Didn’t Enroll During the Pandemic”More Than 1 Million Students Didn’t Enroll During the Pandemic. Will They Come Back? is a new article in Education Week. It’s useful information, but clearly doesn’t tell the whole story. For example, it says that secondary enrollment is down 0.4%. “Enrollment” might just be down that small amount. However, I’ve had at least 5% of students (and probably a bit more) who have remained on my roster,
“Key Takeaways from the 2020/2021 School Year”Jeffrey Garrett & Dr. Manuel Rustin host a must-watch education video show called All Of The Above . I was honored earlier this year when they invited me on to talk about English Language Learners and the pandemic (I’ve embedded that show at the bottom of this post). I was honored again when they asked me to join several of their other guests to share key takeaways we have from this wild year. It
Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELLBiljaST / 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 2020. Also, check out A Collection Of My Best Resources On Teaching English Language Learners. In additi
Three New Resources On World Refugee Daygeralt / Pixabay Today is World Refugee Day. Here are three new additions to The Best Sites For Learning About World Refugee Day : Brothers Across Borders is an interactive from The Red Cross. Visualising 70 years of refugee journeys is from Al Jazeera.
“Four Strategies for Effective Writing Instruction”Four Strategies for Effective Writing Instruction is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Three educators share their best ideas on K-12 writing instruction, including writing frames and graphic organizers. Here are some excerpts:
Sunday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopenings – Perhaps The Final Edition?I’ve been publishing almost daily updates on school reopenings for the past twelve months. With luck, most of us – at least in the United States – will be back to quasi-normal situations in the fall. If that continues to hold true, then this will be the last of my daily posts on the topic. Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING (& SHOWING) WHAT SCHOOLS LOOK LIKE DURING THE PANDEMIC (
