December’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 1,831 Of Them

Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 1,831 of them categorized here):

The Best Resources For Helping Beginner ELLs Learn About Art & Music

The Best Year In Review Features — 2017

NY Times Editors Need To Read Hannah Arendt (or “The Best Commentaries On The NY Times Article ‘Normalizing’ A Nazi”)

The Best Resources For Learning About The Code Talkers

A Collection Of My Best Resources On Classroom Management

The Best Ideas For Helping Students Connect Lessons To Their Interests & The World

The Best Social Emotional Learning Resources Of 2017

The Best Ed Tech Resources Of 2017

The Best Collections Of Infographics, Charts & Maps – 2017

My Most Popular BAM! Radio Shows Of The Year – 2017

“The Best Classroom Q & A Posts In 2017”

The Best Visualizations Of Story Arcs

The Best Resources On Ferdinand The Bull

New & Updated: Recommendations For Who To Follow On Twitter In 2018

Nine Not Very Optimistic Education Predictions For 2018

The Best Posts On The Nature/Nurture Debate

The Best Reports On The New “Lost Einsteins” Study

All The “Best” Lists Appearing In 2017

A Collection Of My Best Resources On Parent Engagement

A Collection Of My Best Resources On Student Motivation

A Collection Of My Best Resources On Teaching English Language Learners

The Best “Words Of The Year” Features For 2017

The best and worst education news in 2017

The Best Videos For Learning & Teaching About Net Neutrality

My Favorite Posts In December

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 recognition of this blog’s tenth anniversary this past 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:

Helping Students Create “Public Narratives”

No Surprise But A Good Reminder – Critical Feedback Generally Only Works If People Feel They Are Valued

Am I The Only Teacher In The World Who Had Not Heard Of The “Stapleless Stapler”?

“The Banana Principle” Is A Useful Way To Talk About – & Implement – Change

I’m Not Sure Mark Zuckerberg Learned The Right Lessons This Year….

Copy-Edits Done On Our New Book – Look For It Soon!

‘Ethnic Studies Courses Benefit all Students’

“Clean” Video & Lyrics Of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s New Song About Ben Franklin

“eStory” Is A New Free Tool For Making Online Timelines

My New BAM! Radio Show Is On Mistakes We Make Teaching Writing

Wash. Post Published My Ed News Round-Up For The Year

Share Your Immigration Story At The U.N. Site “I Am A Migrant”

National Geographic “101 Videos” Is A Nice Series For Teachers & Students

More Resources To Help Students Find College Scholarships

Using “Quick, Draw!” With ELLs & Other Students

New Big Collection Of Free Music To Use With Facebook & Instagram Videos

Here’s My Tentative Plan For A Support Class For Long-Term English Language Learners – Tell Me How I Can Make It Better

Example Of Our Final “Ways Of Knowing Project”

Study: “You are more likely to remember something if you read it out loud”

Two Good Videos To Help Develop A Positive Classroom Culture

Wow! Amazing New Video Created By Smithsonian Will Probably Be Used In A Zillion ELL Classes

Interview With Eddie Williams, ELL Teacher Featured In “The Newcomers”

My Latest NY Times Post Is On Helping ELLs Learn Academic Language

“Fifteen ways to adapt your textbook so your students aren’t bored to death”

Excellent Post On Education Research By Dylan Wiliam

“Let’s Learn English” From VOA Looks Like A Nice Online Video Resource

Here’s A Typical Formative Assessment I Give To My Beginning ELL Students – How Can You Make It Better?

“‘Questions are to a Teacher What the Lasso of Truth is to Wonder Woman’”

Advice From Ta-Nehisi Coates To Teachers

iCivics Adds Bilingual Social Studies Game

Video: “DECISIVE by Chip and Dan Heath – Animated Core Message”

New Research Quantifies The Vocabulary Improvement Generated By Reading – Here’s How I Plan To Use It In Class

“‘The Newcomers’: An Interview with Helen Thorpe”

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.

You might also be interested in The Twenty Most Popular Posts From This Blog In 2017; Tenth Anniversary Of This Blog — What Have Been My Most Popular Posts? (Part One) and Part Two: Tenth Anniversary Of This Blog — What Have Been My Most Popular Posts?

Here are this month’s most popular posts:

1. The Best Websites For Creating Online Learning Games
2. Am I The Only Teacher In The World Who Had Not Heard Of The “Stapleless Stapler”?
3. The Best Christmas Videos For English Language Learners – Help Me Find More
4. The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL (& How To Use Them)
5. TOK Essay Prompts For May, 2018 Just Released – Here They Are, Along With Supporting Resources
6. A Collection Of My Best Resources On Student Motivation
7. The Best Sites For Learning About The World’s Different Cultures
8. The Best Places To Get The “Same” Text Written For Different “Levels”
9. The Best Online Virtual “Corkboards” (or “Bulletin Boards”)
10. Two Good Videos To Help Develop A Positive Classroom Culture