Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 1,662 of them categorized here):
The Best Resources, Articles & Blog Posts For Teachers Of ELLs In 2016 – Part Two
The Best Resources For Helping ELLs Learn About Sports & Other Fun Activities
The Best Resources On Supporting Long-Term English Language Learners
The Best Resources For Teaching & Learning About The Standing Rock Protests
The Best Year In Review Features — 2016
The Best Articles (& Blog Posts) Offering Practical Advice & Resources To Teachers In 2016 – Part Two
My Favorite Posts In 2016 – Part Two
The Best Professional Development Resources On Writing Instruction
The Best Theory Of Knowledge Resources In 2016 – Part Two
“This Year’s 13 Best Q & A Posts!”
The Best Education-Related Books Visitors To This Blog Read In 2016
The Best Resources On “The Danger Of A Single Story”
My Ten Most Popular BAM! Radio Shows – 2016
The Best Collections Of Education Research – 2016
The Best Articles I’ve Written In 2016
The Best Collections Of Infographics, Charts & Maps – 2016
A Look Back: 2014’s Best Posts From This Blog
The Best Resources – Critical & Positive – For Teaching With “Moana”
New & Updated: Recommendations For Who To Follow On Twitter In 2017
The Best Education “Year-In-Review” Round-Ups For 2016
2016’s Most Popular Posts!
The Best Scaffolded Writing Frames For Students
The Best Ways For Students To Create Online Holiday Content Quickly & Easily
December’s Top Posts From This Blog
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:
A Look Back: A Piece I Wrote For Ed Wk On “the Princess Leia approach to teacher-parent conversations”
“Schools Can’t ‘Wish Away’ Challenges of Student Trauma”
A Look Back: Here’s My Chapter On Elements Of A Successful Lesson, Along With Student Hand-Outs THEY Use To Teach
Useful Student Self-Survey On Learning Strategies
A Look Back: The Importance Of Knowledge Transfer
A Look Back At The Most Popular Piece I’ve Ever Published
My Latest BAM! Radio Show Is On Challenges Facing Math Teachers
“A history of global living conditions in 5 charts” Is Very Impressive
Very Useful NY Times Video Series On Implicit Bias
Simple & Fun Lesson For ELLs Of All Ages: Writing & Recording A Letter To Santa Claus
Teaching Resources On Fake News – Part Three
Education Research & “The Graph That Will Never Die”
“A teacher makes eight education predictions for 2017 — some of them dire”
A Look Back: Our Two Books On Teaching English Language Learners
My New BAM Radio Show Is On Using ELLs Home Language In The Classroom
Study Finds Lecturing Not Best Way To Teach – Shocking (NOT!)
“‘Great Field Trips Expand the Mind’”
A Look Back: All My “All-Time Best” Lists
“Radio Garden” Is A Curated Interactive Map Of Thousands Of Radio Stations Around The World
Interview With…Me: “How Skilled Teachers Cultivate Self-Motivated Students”
Surprise – NOT! Study Finds That Money Matters To Education
A Look Back: “Oh, Boy, This Is Great! Researcher’s Scans Show Brain Connections Growing When Learning New Language”
Guest Post: “Inquiry” vs. “Diagnostic” Frameworks For Writing Assessments
“Encouraging Students to Set Their Own Goals” Is Topic Of My Latest BAM! Radio Show
Instructions & Feedback Form For My TOK Class “Ways Of Knowing” Project
“Tech Tools That ‘Increase Learning’”
A Look Back: Almost Ninety Posts On Teaching ELLs For The NY Times
Big New – & Useful – Federal Report Out Today On Helping Students Develop Self-Regulation Skills
PISA Test Results Are In – Relax!
Statistic Of The Day: Less Physical Activity For Boys Equals Less Academic Achievement
This New Video From “Sandy Hook Promise” Is Useful On Many Levels
Why Did My History Lesson Go So Well Yesterday?
Beginning A New “Best” Series Of Interest To ELL Teachers
Statistic Of The Day: This One Should Make Everyone Learning A New Language Happy
Wash. Post Publishes My Annual Education “Year-In-Review”
A Look Back: All My Posts For The British Council
“‘Learning Self-Regulation’ is Needed ‘on Path to Academic Success’”
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 Collections Of Infographics, Charts & Maps – 2016
- Neat “5-Day-Challenge” To Improve Photography Skills
- The Best Websites For Creating Online Learning Games
- The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom
- The Best Sites For Learning About The World’s Different Cultures
- The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL (& How To Use Them)
- The Best Comic Strips For Students & Teachers In 2012 — So Far
- The Best Online Virtual “Corkboards” (or “Bulletin Boards”)
- The Best Places To Get The “Same” Text Written For Different “Levels”
- The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2016 – Part Two
