Classroom Instruction Resources Of The WeekEach week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES ON INSTRUCTION IN 2021 – PART ONE . Here are this week’s picks: 14 Ways to Learn Vocabulary and Explore Language With The New York Times is from The NY Times Learning Network. I’m adding it to The Best
Here Are Step-By-Step Instructions For A Flashcard Activity I Do With My ELL Newcomer StudentsArtsyBeeKids / Pixabay I am a big advocate of creating opportunities for students to teach their classmates (see The Best Posts On Helping Students Teach Their Classmates — Help Me Find More ). I’m lucky this year that I have quite a few peer tutors who can help create those opportunities.. Here are instructions for how they prepare ELL Newcomers to teach others about new vocabulary words and sen
A Look Back: Wow, This Seems Like The Mother Lode Of All Education Research PapersI thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . I published this one last year. There are lots of studies and articles out their with recommendations about what we should be doing in the classroom. In fact, I’ve collected the best at The “Best” Lists Of Recommendations About What “E
CDC Director Overrules Advisors & Recommends That Teachers Get COVID Vaccine Booster ShotsThis was a surprise! After the CDC advisory panel yesterday recommended that health care workers and others not receive COVID vaccine booster shots, the CDC Director just overruled them. You can read about it in The NY Times article, C.D.C. Chief Overrules Agency Panel and Recommends Pfizer-BioNTech Boosters for Workers at Risk . I was literally the first in line at the vaccine clinic our distric
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
Friday’s New Articles & Videos On School ReopeningsOrdinarily, I’d add these new articles and videos to The Best Posts Predicting (& Showing) What Schools Look Like During The Pandemic . However, that list is just getting too massive. So, in the future, if you want to find these in one place, click here: How Some Schools Are Using Weekly Testing To Keep Kids In Class — And COVID Out is from NPR. For Parents of Disabled Children, School Mask Wars
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
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
My Latest BAM! Radio Show Is On The Challenges Schools Are Facing This Fall & How To Respond To ThemWe Learned a Lot From the Pandemic, How Much Are We Applying As We Return to School? is the topic of my latest ten-minute BAM! Radio Show. I’m joined in the conversation by Dr. Rob S.Harvey, Dr. Helen Vassiliou, and Hilary Kreisberg, who have all also contributed written commentaries to my Ed Week column. I’m adding it to All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Descriptions .
A Look Back: Leading With Inquiry, Not JudgmentI thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . This post originally appeared in 2018. mohamed_hassan / Pixabay Earlier this summer, I was asked to share advice to the over two hundred students entering the Sacramento State University teacher credentialing program. I shared one thin
September’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
September’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 2,272 Of Them!Prawny / Pixabay Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,272 of them categorized here ): THE BEST RESOURCES ABOUT ACCELERATED LEARNING THE BEST RESOURCES TO HELP PREPARE TUTORS & VOLUNTEERS IN ELL CLASSES – AND, BOY, DO I NEED SUGGESTIONS! A COLLECTION OF THE BEST ADVICE TO TEACHERS ABOUT SUPPORTING AFGHAN REFUGEE STUDENTS
Here’s The Cover Of Our New Book!Here’s the cover of the second edition of The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide ! We’ll be submitting the final manuscript within days, and it scheduled to be published in early April of next year, though our books usually come out a bit earlier than the official publication date. You can pre-order it here . I’ve been told that most new editions have about thirty percent new content, and that’s th
Resources For Teaching About The Fall SeasonValiphotos / Pixabay It’s that time of year! You might be interested in The Best Sites For Images Of Fall Foliage (& For Teaching About The Season) .
Thursday’s New Articles & Videos On School Reopeningsicsilviu / Pixabay Ordinarily, I’d add these new articles and videos to The Best Posts Predicting (& Showing) What Schools Look Like During The Pandemic . However, that list is just getting too massive. So, in the future, if you want to find these in one place, click here: Florida Makes Quarantine Optional For Students Exposed To COVID-19 is from NPR. Tonight, the Oakland Unified School District
Video: “The First Television System Ever Invented”OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay I’m adding this new video from The History Channel to The Best Sites Where Students Can Learn About Inventions :
A Look Back: New Study Finds That Specific Ninth-Grade Intervention Very Effective & It’s Remarkably Similar To What We Do At Our SchoolI thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . Kunnasberg / Pixabay The American Institutes of Research just released a study finding that a program called Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) was very effective at improving academic progress for ninth-graders and enhancing their
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
Pins Of The WeekI’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 Here
Wednesday’s New Articles On School Reopeningsllorcraft / Pixabay Ordinarily, I’d add these new articles and videos to The Best Posts Predicting (& Showing) What Schools Look Like During The Pandemic . However, that list is just getting too massive. So, in the future, if you want to find these in one place, click here: More than 100,000 pupils off school in England last week amid Covid surge is from The Guardian. D.C.’s mayor says adults in
