Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 1,721 of them categorized here):
The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2017 – So Far
The Best Resources For Helping Beginner ELLs Learn About Opposites
All My Thematic “Best” Lists For Beginning ELLs – In One Place!
The Best Resources For Helping Beginner ELLs Learn About Community, Signs & Transportation
The Best Online Learning Games Of 2017 – So Far
The Best Science Sites Of 2017 – So Far
The Best Resources For Learning & Teaching About Malcolm X
The Best Social Studies Sites Of 2017 – So Far
A Beginning List Of The Best Resources For Teaching & Learning About The North Korea Missile Crisis
The Best Resources On Class Instruction In 2017 – So Far
The Best Guest Posts Appearing On This Blog In 2017 – So Far
The Best Resources For Learning About Cognitive Bias
The Best Articles, Videos & Posts On Education Policy In 2017 – So Far
All Mid-Year 2017 “Best” Lists In One Place
Most Popular Posts From This Blog In 2017 – So Far
My Best Posts On New Research Studies In 2017 – So Far
The Best Videos For Educators In 2017 – So Far
The Best Resources For Learning About The Value Of “Self-Explanation”
The Best Ways To Handle Fidget Spinners
The Twenty-Five Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2017 – So Far
The Best Advice On Protecting Our Digital Info
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:
Here’s What I’m Doing As A Final With Beginning ELLs
“The Best Teaching Advice is…”
How My ELL Students Used Padlet To Create A “Picture Data Set”
My Last BAM! Radio Show For This School Year Is On Flipped Learning
Two New & Very Useful Writing Frames For Teachers & Students
Two Important Reports On Education Released Today
Read, Listen, Watch New Orleans Mayor’s Speech On The Removal Of Confederate Monuments
“Four ways to encourage speaking in the ELL classroom” Is My New British Council Post
“Teaching can be Tough, but We’re Also ‘Lucky’”
No Surprise: Study Finds Immigrant Students Have Trouble Concentrating When Laws Are Passed Attacking Them
I Talk About My Biggest Teaching Mistake In This Radio Interview
I’ll Be Writing Another Book This Summer
“Tech Helps us ‘be a Little Less Common & go far Beyond the Core’”
New Book Excerpt: Supporting ELL Students With Interrupted Formal Education
Big Meta-Analysis Says Four Teaching Strategies Are Most Effective For Low-Income Students
NPR Announces New Science Podcast For Kids & Their Parents
“Ways to Promote Transfer of Learning”
“Learning ‘Transfer is our Collective Goal’”
Six New Videos Teaching Bloom’s Taxonomy In Creative Ways
New Research Suggests That “Community Trust” Enhances Self-Control & Long-Term Thinking
“Equity for Rural Schools is ‘Often Ignored’”
“History does not move on the machinations of a select group of great people”
President Trump & The Civil War
How Are You Using Instagram For Teaching & Learning?
Guest Post: How One District Supports Personalized Learning
“Transfer Of Learning” & Elon Musk
NY Times Learning Network Announces Their Fabulous Annual Summer Reading Contest
My Latest BAM! Radio Show Is On Teaching As A Second Career
This Is Intriguing – Now Anyone Can Create A Class In Google Classroom
May’s Updated “Best” Lists
I am constantly adding new resources to my over 1,700 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 nearly 300 lists over the past twelve months.
Here are a list of them from this month (you can see previous compilations here):
The Best Tools To Make Simple Graphs Online
The Best Sites To Learn About The Internet
The Best Websites For Learning About Memorial Day
The Best Resources For Learning About The “Freedom Riders”
The Best Interactives Showing How Long Our Non-Renewables Will Last
The Best Sites For Learning About The Korean War
The Best Sites For Learning About Penguins
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:
- Big Meta-Analysis Says Four Teaching Strategies Are Most Effective For Low-Income Students
- The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2017 – So Far
- Guest Post: What ELLs Taught Our School In A Week-Long Empathy Project
- The Best Websites For Creating Online Learning Games
- The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL (& How To Use Them)
- The Best Videos For Educators In 2017 – So Far
- The Best Science Sites Of 2017 – So Far
- Six New Videos Teaching Bloom’s Taxonomy In Creative Ways
- The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom
- The Best Online Virtual “Corkboards” (or “Bulletin Boards”)