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MOST POPULAR POSTS OF THE WEEK – ALL CORONAVIRUS RELATED


Big Education Ape: CORONAVIRUS EDITION: This Week With Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... 
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Most Popular Posts Of The Week – All Coronavirus Related

I’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 THIRTE
“Ten Strategies for Teaching English-Language Learners Online”

Ten Strategies for Teaching English-Language Learners Online is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four teachers offer specific suggestions for teaching English-language learners online, including by maintaining consistency and not overdoing it. Here are some excerpts:

YESTERDAY

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 2019 – PART ONE and THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2019 – PART TWO. A
New Study Finds That Peer Assessment Works – Pretty Much Any Way You Do It

The Impact of Peer Assessment on Academic Performance: A Meta-analysis of Control Group Studies is a new meta-analysis on peer assessment, and it’s not behind a paywall. I’ve shared it before, but didn’t have a chance to really carefully review it until now. It’s pretty long, and contains more than you’d ever really want to know about peer assessment. Its bottom line, though, is that pretty much
Video: “A look back at the years the Olympics were called off”

Kyle Dias I’m adding this new CBS News video to A Beginning List For Learning About The 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics :
Helpful New Resources For Teaching Online

geralt / Pixabay I don’t think I’m ready to add any of these new resources to The “Best Of The Best” Resources To Support Teachers Dealing With School Closures , but they do look helpful, so they’re going on the much bigger The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! list: CRPE has published District Responses to COVID-19 Scho


“Ways Educators Are Responding to School Closures”

Ways Educators Are Responding to School Closures is the headline of the third post in a series at my Education Week Teacher column. Five educators discuss ways to respond to the COVID-19 school shutdown crisis, including by 
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