Tuesday’s New Tweets & Articles On School Reopeningsmaxmann / 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: Good luck to us all this week, whether teaching in-person (as we are) or remote (as we should be) — Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferl
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
“Sentence Navigators” Are Great Learning Tools For ELLs“Sentence Navigators” are a term and tool developed by English teacher Jason Renshaw about ten years ago. They are basically grids with words that challenge the reader to select the correct ones to make a sentence. He gave me permission to share many that he created years ago, which you can access at “SENTENCE NAVIGATOR” IS JASON RENSHAW’S GIFT TO ESL/EFL/ELL TEACHERS EVERYWHERE! Katie Hull and I
A Look Back: Sacramento Bee Video Of Me Sharing Tips For New TeachersI 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 . In 2016, The Sacramento Bee asked me to give ninety-seconds of tips for new teachers. Here’s the video (you might also be interested in The Best Advice For New Teachers ):
“Teacher: ‘Omicron Is Truly Bringing Education to Its Knees’”Teacher: ‘Omicron Is Truly Bringing Education to Its Knees’ is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Mindfulness exercises, flexible and fun assignments, and high-interest lesson topics can make the relentless situation more bearable. Here are some excerpts:
Monday’s New Tweets & Articles On School Reopeningsgeralt / 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: It’s wild how the elite conversation about all this is so abstracted and weirdly overheated relative to the actual, modest, tot
Pins Of The WeekI’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 22,000 resources there that I haven’t shared on this blog. I thought readers might find it useful if I began sharing a handful of my most recent “pins” each week (I’m not sure if you can see them through an RSS Reader – you might have to click through to the original post). You might also be interested in MY MOST POPULAR PINS OF 2020 Here
A Look Back: “Ofrecer autonomía es clave para desarrollar la motivación”I 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 . I published this post in 2016: tiching, an organization of teachers in Spanish-speaking countries, did an interview with me on student motivation. You can read it – in Spanish – at Larry Ferlazzo: “Ofrecer autonomía es clave para desar
Critical – & I Mean CRITICAL – Point About “Learning Loss” That Is Being…..Lostaitoff / Pixabay Much of the public date about in-person versus virtual instruction attributes reduced test scores to distance learning. However, as these tweets point out, the majority of factors that influence student achievement lay outside the schoolhouse walls (also see The Best Places To Learn What Impact A Teacher (& Outside Factors) Have On Student Achievement ). Here are some useful twee
Sunday’s New Articles On School Reopeningsviarami / Pixabay America doesn’t have enough teachers to keep schools open is from Vox. 1 2 Oakland schools close after teachers stage ‘sickout,’ citing COVID safety worries is from The L.A. Times. Frustrations rise as Gov. Newsom’s vow to screen students for COVID falls short is from The L.A. Times. As More Teachers’ Unions Push for Remote Schooling, Parents Worry. So Do Democrats. is from The
Video: “How COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Work”torstensimon / Pixabay I’m adding this pretty cool video to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS : How COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Work – Vaccine Makers Project from Vaccine Makers Project on Vimeo .
Video: “‘The Cloud’ has you. Do you know what it is?”GDJ / Pixabay I’m adding this new video from Scientific American to The Best Sites To Learn About The Internet :
A Look Back: “Oh, I Get It! If You Send Me Out, Then I’m Being Bad; If I Send Me Out, Then I’m Being Good!”I 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 . I first published this post in 2014. You might also be interested in Best Posts On Classroom Management … I write about positive classroom management strategies a lot (see The Best Posts On Classroom Management ) and I’m always learnin
Quote Of The Day: Don’t Blame Teachers For School ShutdownsCheck out Who Gets the Blame When Schools Shut Down from The New Yorker. Also: MANY DISTRICTS ARE DOUBLING DOWN ON UNSKILLED LEADERSHIP RIGHT NOW – HAVE THEY LEARNED NOTHING?
Many Districts Are Doubling Down On Unskilled Leadership Right Now – Have They Learned Nothing?photosforyou / Pixabay As I have said on numerous occasions, COVID 19 HAS MADE TRANSPARENT THE LACK OF SKILLED LEADERSHIP IN MANY SCHOOL DISTRICTS. But it has been truly astounding to me in the past week to see that the level of unskilled leadership in many districts reach new heights. Forget about so-called “learning loss” among our students – it seems more prevalent among district leaders. It a
