Saturday, December 4, 2021

THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007

 Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007


THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... 
The latest news and resources in education since 2007



New Study Examines What Helps Students Most With Reading Comprehension
A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Reading Comprehension Interventions on the Reading Comprehension Outcomes of Struggling Readers in Third Through 12th Grades is a new and interesting study by Marissa Filderman and her colleagues. Unfortunately, it’s behind a paywall, but here the parts I think teachers would find most useful: Background knowledge and strategy instruction were associated with sig
A Look Back: Another Study Finds Eliciting Explanations From Students Is More Effective Than Telling Them
This blog has recently gained many new readers. Because of that, I thought it might be worth sharing a “A Look Back” where I periodically share my choices for the most important posts from the past fourteen years. You can also see all of my choices for “Best” posts here . As regular readers know, I’m a big advocate of inductive learning (see The Best Resources About Inductive Learning & Teaching
Great Student Video Vocabulary Contest At NY Times Learning Network
Each year, The New York Times Learning Network invites students to create a fifteen second video using one of the 1,600 words the Network has featured in their posts. They’ve just announced the opening of their 2021 contest . The deadline is January 12th. I think it’s an excellent learning activity, particularly for English Language Learners. In fact, the Network used a video created by one of my

DEC 02

Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week
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. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES ON INSTRUCTION IN 2021 – PART ONE . Here are this week’s picks: 5 Ways to Teach With Primary Sources is from Facing History. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Using Primary Sources . How to Incor
A Look Back: Twelve Ways ELLs – & Anyone Else – Can Read & Demonstrate Understanding Of A Textbook
This blog has recently gained many new readers. Because of that, I thought it might be worth sharing a “A Look Back” where I periodically share my favorite from the past fourteen years. You can also see all of my choices for “Best” posts here . geralt / Pixabay Earlier today, I posted WHAT I WANT TO DO BETTER NEXT SCHOOL YEAR – HOW ABOUT YOU? A few hours later, I realized that I had omitted anoth
This Is Neat – Quizizz Now Lets You Create Quizzes Where Students Can Draw Their Answer
I have written about Quizizz countless times – it’s one of my favorite online tools. It has so many features! One of my many favorite ways to use it with ELLs is to record an answer or a question (it has an easy recording feature), and then have students choose the correct question or answer. They’ve recently add the ability for creators to add questions that require participants to draw the answ

DEC 01

November’s Most Popular Posts
As 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
Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
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 2020. Also, check out A Collection Of My Best Resources On Teaching English Language Learners. In additi
A Look Back – This May Have Potential: Teachers Doing Low-Stakes Observations Of Their Colleagues Resulted In Improvements For Both
This blog has recently gained many new readers. Because of that, I thought it might be worth sharing a “A Look Back” where I periodically share my favorite from the past fourteen years. You can also see all of my choices for “Best” posts here . geralt / Pixabay A new study in secondary schools found that teachers observing their colleagues two-or-three times and providing feedback using one-half

NOV 30

Wednesday’s New Articles & Videos On School Reopenings
OpenClipart-Vectors / 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: Sacramento City Unified’s COVID-19 proof of vaccination deadline is Nov. 30, but what comes after? is from KCRA.
The Similarities Between How We Look At Car Crashes & How We Look At Schools
The Atlantic recently published an article headlined The Deadly Myth That Human Error Causes Most Car Crashes . It’s subtitled “Every year thousands of Americans die on the roads. Individuals take the blame for systemic problems.” Here’s a key excerpt: In 2015, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a branch of the U.S. Department of Transportation, published a two-page memo declarin
“Best” Education Memes Of The Year – 2021
Memes can be a fun, , and I used quite a few popular ones to put spins on challenges facing us in the world of education. I put “best” in quotations because they’re the best I’ve come up with, and I’m sure others have created far better ones. If you want to try your hand at making your own, Kapwing and ImgFlip are my favorite meme-making tools. You can see all of my handiwork at A COLLECTION OF S
A Look Back: Ways To Turn A Bad Teacher-Student Relationship Into A Good One
This blog has recently gained many new readers. Because of that, I thought it might be worth sharing a “A Look Back” where I periodically share my favorite from the past fourteen years. You can also see all of my choices for “Best” posts here . There are many things in education where research disagrees about whether they are effective or important in student learning, but the value of a positive

NOV 29

Tuesday’s New Articles On School Reopenings
Sammy-Sander / 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’s new anti-masking law denies us key tools to protect our schools from future covid surges is from The Washington
November’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 2,280 Of Them!
Prawny / Pixabay Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,280 of them categorized here – you might also want to check out THREE ACCESSIBLE WAYS TO SEARCH FOR & FIND MY “BEST” LISTS). Here’s the list from this month: THE BEST ONLINE LEARNING GAMES – 2021 (PART TWO) THE BEST RESOURCES ON THE NASA LAUNCH OF AN ASTEROID HUNTER/DEFLECTOR BEST VIDEOS FO
Ed Tech Digest
Ten 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
A Look Back: Here’s My Short Unit On Folktales – Including Student Handouts
This blog has recently gained many new readers. Because of that, I thought it might be worth sharing a “A Look Back” where I periodically share my favorite from the past fourteen years. You can also see all of my choices for “Best” posts here . Merio / Pixabay I’ve previously shared posts about specific writing units I do with ELLs (and non-ELLs) that have shared detailed instructions and student
New Study Finds That Pretty Much All Teacher Evaluation “Reforms” Have Failed
It’ll come as no surprise to most teachers, but a new study finds that all the time, money and effort spent on “reforming” teacher evaluations resulted in zero positive impact on student achievement. Efforts to Toughen Teacher Evaluations Show No Positive Impact on Students is the headline of a lengthy Education Week article about the summary, and it’s worth reading the whole thing (and, if you d

NOV 28

“Culturally Responsive Social-Emotional Learning: How to Get There”
Culturally Responsive Social-Emotional Learning: How to Get There is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Bringing culturally responsive SEL into class can’t be done as an add-on. It needs to be integrated into daily routines and academic work. Here are some excerpts:
My Most Popular Tweets Of The Month
PhotoMIX-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
A Look Back: Interesting Study On Percentage Of Time Students Are “Off-Task”
This blog has gained many new readers over the past year. Because of that, I thought it might be worth sharing a daily “A Look Back” where I share a best post from the past fourteen years. You can also see all of my choices for “Best” posts here . This post appeared in July, 2018. The Hechinger Report recently highlighted a 2016 study analyzing “off-task” behavior in elementary school students. Y
Just Sent-Out Free Monthly Email Newsletter
geralt / Pixabay I’ve just mailed out the December issue of my very simple free monthly email newsletter . It has over 3,000 subscribers, and you can subscribe here . Of course, you can also join the eighteen thousand others who subscribe to this blog daily. Here Are 8 Ways You Can Subscribe For Free…
My Favorite Posts That Appeared In November
I 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

NOV 27

The Best Online Learning Games – 2021 (Part Two)
It continues to be time for end-of-year “Best” lists. You can see all my previous Online Learning Games “Best” lists (and there are a lot since I’ve doing this since 2007) here. Note that they’re also continually revised and updated. Here are my picks from the second part of 2021: WE SPENT CLASS YESTERDAY PLAYING SEVEN FREE KAHOOT/QUIZIZZ-LIKE GAMES & HERE IS HOW STUDENTS EVALUATED THEM Gimkit is
A Look Back: Teachers Might Find This List Of ELL Accommodations Useful…
This blog has gained many new readers over the past year. Because of that, I thought it might be worth sharing a daily “A Look Back” where I share a best post from the past fourteen years. You can also see all of my choices for “Best” posts here . This post appeared in September, 2018. TeroVesalainen /

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007