March’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 1,690 Of Them
Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 1,690 of them categorized here):
All My BAM! Radio Shows About English Language Learners
The Best Random Acts Of Kindness Videos
The Best Videos For Learning About The Scientific Method
A Beginning List Of The Best Resources For Fighting Islamophobia In Schools
The Best Resources On The Latest Travel Ban By The Trump Administration
The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Action Research – Help Me Find More
The Best Practical Resources For Helping Teachers, Students & Families Respond To Immigration Challenges
The Thirty-Seven “All-Time” Best Lists
The Best Resources On Classroom Seating Strategies
A Beginning List Of The Best Resources On Virtual Reality In Education
The Oscars Are Awarded This Sunday – Here Are All My “Best” Lists Related To Movies
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. I’ve also been doing “A Look Back” series in anticipation of this blog’s tenth anniversary in February.
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:
Everything You Wanted To Know About How We’re Using Virtual Reality With ELLs, But Were Afraid To Ask
Now This Is A Student Goal-Setting Strategy That May Actually Work
“Do’s & Don’ts of Implementing New Ideas in Education”
Here Are Some Of The Knowledge Questions My TOK Students Are Using For Oral Presentations This Year
What ‘Scarcity’ Does To The Mind & Why Social Emotional Learning Isn’t Enough
“Everyone Is A Teacher” Is A New Engagement Strategy I’m Using & It Seems To Be Working
My Latest BAM! Radio Show Is On Handling Tough Teaching Moments
Quote Of The Day: Reflection Is Important
ELL Beginners Jobs & Careers Project With Hand-Out & Videos
“StoryShares” Lets You Create Virtual Classrooms Where Students Can Read & Write Books
Teaching Critical Thinking In History Reduces Belief In Pseudoscience
The Benefits Of Students Acknowledging Help They Receive From Classmates
Here’s My Entire ELL Beginners Seven-Week Unit On Writing A Story (Including Hand-outs & Links)
“We Need to ‘Initiate Wonder in the Classroom’”
The Simple “New Paradigm Project” We Did In Theory Of Knowledge Class (& Which Could Be Done In Other Classes, Too)
Help Me Create A Series Of Lessons On “Reading As An Act Of Rebellion” (Or Let Me Know If You Have One Already)
How Will President Trump’s Budget – If Approved – Affect You, Your Students & Their Families?
Important Collection Of Lessons & Short Films On Race & Racism From NY Times Learning Network
How P.A. Announcements Affect Student Learning
Type Your Text Into “SlideBot” & It Automatically Chooses Layout & Images For Your Slideshow
“Looking Into Education’s Crystal Ball”
Here Are Good Discussion Questions For Our Book On ELLS & The Common Core
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s Stanford Speech Is Filled With Useful Quotes For Students
Here’s A Great Motivating Question For Students To Consider…
“What Teaching in the Year 2047 Might Look Like”
Video: Best Live Interview – EVER – On TV Is Perfect For ELLs
Sacramento City Unified School District Launches Campaign To Assist Undocumented Students
“Spiral” Looks Like A Great Site Where Teachers Can Set-Up Free Virtual Classrooms
“Bloom’s & SOLO ‘are not Just Colorful Posters we Hang on the Wall’”
Two Excellent Resources On Effective Ways To Influence Your Congressperson
“Your One Word” Seems Like A Pretty Useful Idea For A Lesson
Here’s My Absolutism/Relativism Project For TOK – Help Me Make It Better
The Promise & Peril Of Using Google Translate In The ELL Classroom – Share Your Ideas
The Atlantic’s New “Life Timeline” Could Be An Engaging Social Studies Tool
“Performance Assessment can be an ‘Equity Strategy’”
Nice Issue on Personalized Learning From ASCD Educational Leadership
Most Popular Posts Of The Month
As regular readers know, at the end of each week I share the five most popular posts from the previous seven days.
I thought people might find it interesting to see a list of the ten most popular posts from the previous thirty days:
- The Best Websites For Creating Online Learning Games
- The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom
- Here’s A Great Motivating Question For Students To Consider…
- The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL (& How To Use Them)
- “Spiral” Looks Like A Great Site Where Teachers Can Set-Up Free Virtual Classrooms
- The Best Sites For Learning About The World’s Different Cultures
- The Best Comic Strips For Students & Teachers In 2012 — So Far
- The Best Online Virtual “Corkboards” (or “Bulletin Boards”)
- The Best Resources On Classroom Seating Strategies
- Here Are The Ten Downloadable Graphic Organizers I Use With ELL Beginners To Write A Story
I am constantly adding new resources to my over 1,600 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, I’ve started to go through them and highlight the ones that I’ve gotten around to completely cleaning-up and revising. I’ve completed this process with 261 lists over the past twelve months.
Here are a list of them from this month (you can see previous compilations here):
The Best Sites For Learning To Write A Story
The Best Sites To Learn About Mardi Gras & Carnivals
The Best Websites For Learning About Bob Marley
The Best Sites Remembering Bob Marley Thirty Years After His Death
The Best Resources About Presidents’ Day
The Best Resources For Groundhog Day
The Best Sites To Learn About The U.S. Supreme Court
