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For several years, I regularly wrote posts for The NY Times Learning Network on teaching English Language Learners. You can see all of them at ALL MY NY TIMES POSTS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS – LINKED WITH DESCRIPTIONS.
On a lark, I asked ChatGPT to come up with fictional book blurbs endorsing our latest book, The Better Teacher s Toolbox. Here s what it came up with: E.T. Teachers phone home and tell everyone to get The Better Teachers Toolbox. Even an alien can learn something. Tony Soprano Lemme tell you something. Running a [ ]
I’ve begun this weekly post where I’ll be sharing resources I’m adding to The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources or other related “Best” lists. Also, check out Best Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources. Here are this week s picks: I m adding this post to The Best Posts, Articles Videos About Learning [ ]
For the next several months, each week I’ll be republishing posts from the past that I think readers might still find useful. This post first appeared in 2019. Kid Citizen is a free site designed for students to learn with primary sources. It says its focus is K-5, but I think it could [ ]
Wayground/Quizziz is on tons of my Best lists, and I ve published many posts about it over the years. They just shared a video about some new features I m intrigued by the games, less excited about its AI grading worksheets (not thrilled about worksheet use, nor about teachers having AI grade anything beyond learning [ ]
Today is Navajo Code Talkers Day. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About The Code Talkers.
I ve made many videos over the years, including quite a few animated ones with Education Week on differentiated instruction, learning transfer, and student motivation. You can see thirty of them all here. I ve also made about more on TikTok, which you can see here. I ve begun uploading those TikTok videos to my YouTube Channel, [ ]
You may, or may not, have heard about the recent national meeting of students who put together their version of a national framework for schools to use on Artificial Intelligence policy. You can read about it at this NPR article, Adults have struggled to set rules for AI in school. These teens figured it [ ]
The United Nations has declared August 23rd to be International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition. You can find many related resources at their website. You might also be interested in USEFUL RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF BRINGING ENSLAVED AFRICANS TO AMERICA and A BEGINNING LIST OF [ ]
Each 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 can also see all my Best lists on instructional strategies here. Here are this week s picks: How to Streamline IEP Paperwork for Special and General Education Teachers is [ ]
Obviously, our students can learn a lot of English by watching regular television series and using closed captioning. But there are also decent online dramatic series that are specifically designed for language learning. During my first years of teaching English Language Learners, my students and I enjoyed The Connect With English dramatic video series [ ]
I ve written and shared a lot about how some boast that their wonderful and innovative strategies that work well with highly motivated upper income children can easily be applied everywhere and uplift all students. Many of these teacher-proof students would do great in whatever system they re placed in. And, more often than not, their [ ]
I posted photos of my classroom for many years here on the day before school began. Now that I’m retired, I can pass the torch to my grandson , Shea Rusakowicz , who begins his teaching career tomorrow! Good luck, Shea!
For the next several months, each week I’ll be republishing posts from the past that I think readers might still find useful. This post first appeared in 2019. Dylan Wiliam shared an incredibly important piece on Twitter explaining how Districts screw-up adopting materials, including technology: Because they tend to be bad? https://t.co/qCKr6UZrGK — [ ]
The United Nations has declared August 19th to be World Humanitarian Day: World Humanitarian Day is a time to recognize those who face danger and adversity in order to help others. The day was designated by the General Assembly to coincide with the anniversary of the 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in [ ]
At least, for now, I m going to make this a weekly feature which will highlight additions to THE BEST NEW – FREE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS THAT COULD BE USED IN THE CLASSROOM: MarcoAI is an interesting mapping tool, which you can read more about at Google Maps Mania. Travel Animator uses AI [ ]
I thought readers might, or might not, find this new regular post useful. Each week, I highlight several sentences, with links to their sources, that I find interesting/concerning/useful. And they may, or may not, be directly connected to education. I may also include my own comments or related links. This regular post will join [ ]
I recently learned a new term used in English language teaching mediation activities. It s used to basically describe any activity where students have to explain something to someone else. Certainly, teaching classmates (see The Best Posts On Helping Students Teach Their Classmates — Help Me Find More ) and jigsaws(see THE BEST RESOURCES [ ]
Ten 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 all my Best lists on teaching ELLs. Also, check out A Collection Of My Best [ ]
I 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” [ ]