New Playing For Change Around The World Video: “Peace Train featuring Yusuf/Cat Stevens”Clker-Free-Vector-Images / Pixabay Playing For Change’s “Around The World” videos are just plain wonderful. You can see all the previous ones I’ve shared here . Here’s their latest:
Veterans Day Is Coming Up – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resourcesjkmoller11 / Pixabay Veterans Day is coming up. You might be interested in The Best Websites To Learn About Veterans Day .
Engaging Interactive On “Smokejumpers”stevepb / Pixabay Whenever I teach a unit on Natural Disasters and we get to wildfires, students are always VERY interested in Smokejumpers, the firefighters who parachute in to fight the flames. Esri just published an interactive called S mokejumpers: 80 Years of Wildland Firefighting . I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Forest Fires .
Video: “British vs American vs Canadian ENGLISH Differences!”Pixaline / Pixabay I’ve posted many articles and videos on accents, and here’s another one:
Thanksgiving Is In A Few Weeks – Here Are Teaching & Learning ResourcesPublicDomainPictures / Pixabay Thanksgiving is coming up here in the United States. You might be interested in The Best Sites To Teach and Learn About Thanksgiving (I just went through it and cleaned up a few dead links).
A Look Back: The Best Piece Of Classroom Management Advice I Ever ReadTeroVesalainen / Pixabay I 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 . My first year in teaching was spent with a self-contained class of retained seventh-graders. Right above the whiteboard in our classroom I wrote this question on a poster: “Is what you’re doing, or is what you’
Here Are Guidelines, Report Forms, & “Focus Questions” For Our Peer MentorsTheDigitalArtist / Pixabay I’ve previously shared a fair amount of material about how we train and utilize peer mentors – and peer tutors – for ELL students. You can find those resources at The Best Resources On The Value & Practice Of Having Older Students Mentoring Younger Ones . For years, students in my IB Theory of Knowledge classes have also served as mentors for ninth-graders – both ELLs a
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
World Toilet Day Is On Nov. 19th – Here Are Teaching & Learning ResourcesNov. 19th is World Toilet Day , organized by the U.N. to bring attention to the need for public sanitation in developing countries. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About World Toilet Day & The Issue Of Public Sanitation In The Third World .
A Look Back: Fun Videos About Books & ReadingI 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 . In 2012, I published The Best Fun Videos About Books & Reading , and have been adding to it ever since. Here’s an example of the kind of video you can find on that list:
A New Way I’m Dealing With Google Translate In My ELL ClassroomAs all ELL teachers know, Google Translate is certainly often a blessing, but can sometimes also be a curse. I’ve dealt with the latter by asking students to just use it to translate individual words instead of sentences, and sometimes that request is respected – and often it isn’t (I’ve written more about this topic at The Promise & Peril Of Using Google Translate In The ELL Classroom ). Even wh
Wednesday’s New Articles & Videos On School Reopeningsgeralt / 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: Breaking News: A CDC panel recommended Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for children 5 to 11. Shots for that age group could begin as ear
New Report Reinforces Previous Findings That More Schooling Results In Higher IncomesMedian lifetime earnings rise with each additional level of education, report finds from Higher Ed Dive summarizes a useful new report. It reinforces lots of prior research that you can find at The Best Resources For Showing Students Why They Should Continue Their Academic Career . However, it also makes some other important points, including this one: …some workers earn more than other people wi
New BBC Video: “When can you trust statistics?”GraphicMama-team / Pixabay It think this new BBC video would work well in my IB Theory of Knowledge class:
“Teaching About Slavery in the U.S.? Start With Honesty.”Teaching About Slavery in the U.S.? Start With Honesty. is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Strategies have to include teachers acknowledging what they don’t know and recognizing they have to convey some ugly truths. Here are some excerpts:
Video: “Explainer: How Are Refugees Resettled In The U.S.?”GDJ / Pixabay I’m adding this new video from Newsy to The Best Sites For Learning About World Refugee Day :
Maybe I’m Grasping At Straws, But I Wonder If There Could Be A Tiny Silver Lining To What Has Happened In VirginiaTheDigitalArtist / Pixabay It ain’t over til it’s over, but it’s certainly looking like racist demagoguery camouflaged (barely) by a “parental rights” (see WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE PARENT ENGAGEMENT, BUT NOT PARENT BULLYING) refrain against Critical Race Theory (see RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT ATTACKS ON “CRITICAL RACE THEORY,” THE 1619 PROJECT & ATTEMPTS TO STOP EDUCATORS FROM TEACHING ABOUT SYSTEMI
Diwali Takes Place On Nov. 4th – Here Are Related Teaching & Learning Resourcesbhuwanpurohit / Pixabay Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, will start on November 4th this year. . You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About Diwali.
“How to Keep Art Front and Center in Instruction”How to Keep Art Front and Center in Instruction is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Three educators wrap up a series on using art in content classes by discussing their use of picture books, recycling projects, and more. Here are some excerpts:
Three Accessible Ways To Search For & Find My “Best” Lists(Note: I am going to publish this same post once each month to remind regular readers and inform newer ones about how to access my “Best” lists) As regular readers know, I have about 2,200 categorized and regularly updated “Best” lists. You can find all of them in broad categories here . The link to that page can also be found at the top right of my blog: My Best Of Series I also have them all on
