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-to-ten 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
A Look Back: This Is Interesting: Hattie Says Jigsaw Strategy Hits a HomerunI 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 2017: Katrina Schwartz has written an excellent article over at MindShift headlined How Do You Know When A Teaching Strategy Is Most Effective? John Hattie Has An Idea. She’s done a masterful job of exp
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: Creating Authentic Writing Opportunities in the Science Classroom is from Edutopia. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Writing In Sc
Research Studies Of The WeekI often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature . By the way, you mig
A Look Back: 14 Tools For Easily Creating Charts & Graphs OnlineI’m continuing my “A Look Back” series by looking at past “Best” lists and updating them. janjf93 / Pixabay I originally posted The Best Tools To Make Simple Graphs & Charts Online in 2008, and have been revising and updating it since that time. It includes tools like Chartle , Chart Go, Kids Zone , Pie Color , and ten more… Check them all out at the “Best” list and let me know what I’m missing!
Statistic Of The Day: Parents With Kids In School Say Schools Are Doing Fine; Others Appear To DisagreeWho’s Unhappy With Schools? The Answer Surprised Me. is a must-read column in today’s NY Times. Here are a couple of other excerpts from the piece: …according to Gallup , which has tracked school satisfaction annually since 1999, in 2021, “73 percent of parents of school-aged children say they are satisfied with the quality of education their oldest child is receiving.” All of this at least raise
How Our ELL Students Received More Support This Year Than Ever Beforegeralt / Pixabay Our school, Luther Burbank High School, has always provided strong support to English Language Learners. This year, however, that support has reached an entirely different – and higher – level, and the progress being made by our students shows that it is paying off. Here are the changes we have made this year: 1. Added as many as nine peer tutors to Beginning and Intermediate lev
