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A VERY BUSY DAY 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


A VERY BUSY DAY
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
The latest news and resources in education since 2007
 
 

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Everything You Wanted To Know About Classroom Management But Were Afraid To Ask
ernestoeslava / Pixabay I have over 2,100 frequently revised and updated “Best” lists on just about every subject imaginable, and you can find them listed three different ways in three different places (see Three Accessible Ways To Search For & Find My “Best” Lists ). I’m starting to publish a series where each day I will highlight the “Best” lists in a separate category. Today, it’s on Classroom
Tuesday’s Must-Read Articles About School Reopening
geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : As Schools Go Remote, Finding ‘Lost’ Students Gets Harder is from The NY Times. Learning Curve: Teacher Resigns Rather Than Expose Her Family To COVID-19 is from NPR. They Work Full Time. They Attend School. They’re Only Teenagers. is from The HuffPost. Duval Schools’ laptop gap impacts
“Strategies for Promoting Student Collaboration in a Distance Learning Environment”
Strategies for Promoting Student Collaboration in a Distance Learning Environment is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Another teacher and I share strategies to encourage student collaboration in a remote or hybrid learning environment, including through group presentations and class-created “norms.” Here’s an excerpt:
Most Popular Posts Of The Week
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
World Teachers’ Day Is On Oct. 5th – Here Are Related Resources
Jorgeduardo / Pixabay World Teachers’ Day, held annually on October 5th since 1994 – when it was created by UNESCO – celebrates teachers worldwide (in the United States, National Teacher Day is Tuesday in the first full week of May). You might be interested in The Best Resources To Learn About World Teachers Day .
Everything You Wanted To Know About Assessment But Were Afraid To Ask
Wokandapix / Pixabay I have over 2,100 frequently revised and updated “Best” lists on just about every subject imaginable, and you can find them listed three different ways in three different places (see Three Accessible Ways To Search For & Find My “Best” Lists ). I’m starting to publish a series where each day I will highlight the “Best” lists in a separate category. Today, it’s on Assessment:
Zoom Adds Features For Educators
Alexandra_Koch / Pixabay Zoom announced, and shared instructional videos, today about some new features for educators (none of which I thought were really that very useful). They had also previously announced that today was going to be the day they introduced a self-selecting option for breakout rooms (see ON SEPT. 21ST, ZOOM IMPLEMENTS A FEATURE TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO CHOOSE THEIR OWN BREAKOUT ROOMS
How Could I Have Not Known That Google Offers Free A.I. Powered Feedback On The Pronunciation Of Any Word?
I wanted to confirm today that I was pronouncing the word “hubris” correctly (why I wanted to say that word is a topic for another blog post). So, I searched “How do you pronounce hubris?” And something like what you see in the image at the top of this blog post appeared. You can click on the audio to hear it – at regular speed or slow. AND you can record yourself saying the word and it will give
New Study Finds That Teacher Leadership Results In Improved Learning For Students
TheDigitalArtist / Pixabay Echoing previous studies highlighted in The Best Posts, Articles & Videos On “Teacher Leadership” — Contribute More! , a new study, The association between teacher leadership and student achievement: 
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