Here’s Advice On Talking To Someone With Whom You Disagree – Could Be Helpful For Family Holiday Conversationsgeralt / Pixabay Not all of our family members may share our views about public life, and we may be spending a lot of time with them in the coming weeks. You might find this “Best” list helpful: The Best Ways To Talk With Someone Who Disagrees With You
New Study Examines What Helps Students Most With Reading ComprehensionA 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 ThemThis 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 NetworkEach 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
“Want Students to ‘Build a Better World?’ Try Culturally Responsive Social-Emotional Learning”Want Students to ‘Build a Better World?’ Try Culturally Responsive Social-Emotional Learning is the headline of my latest Education Week column. The practice includes expanding students’ networks and developing their awareness of what it feels, looks, and sounds like to manage emotions. Here are some excerpts:
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: 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 TextbookThis 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 AnswerI 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
November’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
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
A Look Back – This May Have Potential: Teachers Doing Low-Stakes Observations Of Their Colleagues Resulted In Improvements For BothThis 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
James Baldwin Died On This Day In 1987 – Here Are Teaching & Learning ResourcesJames Baldwin died on December 1st, 1987. You might be interested in JAMES BALDWIN WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1924 – HERE ARE RELATED RESOURCES .
Wednesday’s New Articles & Videos On School ReopeningsOpenClipart-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 SchoolsThe 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 – 2021Memes 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 OneThis 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
Tuesday’s New Articles On School ReopeningsSammy-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 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
A Look Back: Here’s My Short Unit On Folktales – Including Student HandoutsThis 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
