January’s “The Best” Lists – There Are Now 1,531 Of Them!
Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 1,531 of them categorized here):
The Best Resources For Learning How The Every Student Succeeds Act Affects English Language Learners
The Best Resources On The Recent “Discovery” Of A Possible Ninth Planet
The Best Resources For Learning About The Flint Water Fiasco
Part 2 – Best Resources For Learning About Flint Water Crisis
The Best Resources For Teaching & Learning About Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave
The Best Resources For Learning About The Importance Of Prior Knowledge (& How To Activate It)
The Best Comic Strips For Students & Teachers In 2015 – Part Two
My Favorite Posts In 2015 — Part Two
My Twelve Best BAM! Radio Shows In 2015
The Best Education “Year-In-Review” Round-Ups For 2015
I am constantly adding new resources to my over 1,500 categorized “Best Lists.
I also regularly “cull” through the lists to weed-out dead links, but haven’t been very systematic about doing that task.
So, this month I’ve started to go through them and highlight the ones that I’ve gotten around to completely cleaning-up and revising.
Here are a list of them from this month:
The Best Sites For Learning About The Holocaust
The Best Sites To Learn About Australia
The Best Sites For Learning About Nuclear Weapons
The Best Sites Where ELL’s Can Learn About The Super Bowl
The Best Resources On Japanese Internment In World War II
The Best Resources For Chinese New Year
The Best Sites To Practice Speaking English
The Best Websites For Beginning Older Readers
The Best Websites To Teach & Learn About African-American History
The Best Sources For Advice On Student Blogging
The Best Sites That Show Statistics By Reducing The World & The U.S. To 100 People
The Best Resources For Groundhog Day
The Best Images Of Weird, Cool & Neat-Looking Buildings (& Ways To Design Your Own)
The Best Ways To Make Comic Strips Online
The Best Art Websites For Learning English
The Best Ways For Students To Create Online Animations
The Best Tools For Creating Fake “Stuff” For Learning
I regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see older Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month (more recent lists can be found here).
You can also see my all-time favorites here.
Here are some of the posts I personally think are the best, and most helpful, ones I’ve written during this past month (not in any order of preference). There are a lot of them this month:
New Study Suggests That Teacher Observations Should Focus More On Teacher Inputs, Less On Student Outcomes
New ELL History “What If?” Projects
“Seeing Families as ‘Co-Creators’ of our Schools”
“Ask A REL” Archives Are Some Of The Most Accessible Education Research Sites Around…
“KnowMe” Has Immediately Become The Most Useful iPhone App In My Classroom
Supreme Court Agrees To Rule On Obama Immigration Executive Order – Big Implications For The Classroom
Very Interesting Interview With Motivation Researcher
The Latest Videos From Our Sister Class Geography Project — This Time, From Greece!
“Manage Classrooms Through ‘Positive Relationships’”
Simple Exploration Project With ELL History Class
A Simple Writing Prompt To Accompany Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Essay, “The Purpose Of Education”
“Annotation Studio” Looks Like A Nice Tool For Online…Annotation
Interesting Study On Teaching Vocabulary
Here’s A Nice Lesson I Did On Ethics In My Theory Of Knowledge Class
“‘Reading Nonfiction': An Interview With Kylene Beers & Robert Probst”
Statistic Of The Day: Immigrants More “Law-Abiding” Than Natives
Quote Of The Day (& How I’m Using It In Class): “the winner is the person who keeps asking questions”
New Study Finds Big Results From Ethnic Studies Classes
Google & British Museum Create “Museum Of The World”
Here’s A New Phonics Activity I Did Today
My Latest NY Times Student Interactive Is On Martin Luther King, Jr.
Another Study Points To The Importance Of Students Writing For An Authentic Audience
Killing Baby Hitler & Student “What If?” Projects
Michael Jordan Story On Goal-Setting
Studies Find No Surprise: Kindness Matters
“Colleges of Ed Can Make ‘Lifetime Commitments’ to Working Teachers”
The Importance Of Having Many Tools: “If Your Only Tool Is A Hammer, Then Everything Looks Like A Nail”
Useful TED-Ed Lesson On “The Danger of a Single Story”
New York Public Library Makes 180,000 Images Available In Public Domain
Top-Notch English Site, USA Learns, Unveils Rebuilt Version
Great Letter From Feds On Importance Of Welcoming Muslim Students – Ironic That It Comes Same Day As ICE Raids Begin
“Teaching ELLs That ‘Science is a Verb’”
My Latest NY Times Interactive For ELLs Is On New Year’s Resolutions
Newsela Now Provides Spanish Translations With Leveled Text
Our Book On Teaching Common Core To ELLs Will Be Published In Two Months – Here’s Simple Table Of Contents
Quote Of The Day: Gratitude Isn’t Enough
“Teaching Science to English Language Learners”
Useful Writing Scaffold For A Classroom Wall
If You Ever Have A Bad Day, Here’s Some Good Advice On How To Turn It Around
“WordsEye” Is A New Cool Tool That Could Be A BIG Help With Language-Learning
NEW “Fillable” PDF Forms For IB Theory Of Knowledge Presentations
Statistic Of The Day: How Much Do Teachers Spend Out Of Their Own Pockets For Supplies?
Is “Learning Agility” A Useful Concept Or Just Another Buzzword?
This Is Great – National Writing Project & KQED Announce “Letters to the Next President 2.0″
“Increasing Motivation Through Students Setting Goals” Is My New British Council Post
Harvard Business Review Publishes Excellent Classroom Management Formula
No Big Surprise: Having A “Sense Of Purpose” In Life Enhances Self-Control
Statistic Of The Day: Documenting Progress Towards Goals & Making It Public Helps To Achieve Them
