Here’s Our Chapter On Distance Learning With ELLs & It’s Free To Download (No Registration Required!)
Our publisher has just released the Distance Learning chapter from our upcoming book, The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide, 2nd edition.
Please remember that it is a draft, so it hasn’t gone through the usual proofreading regimen. The book itself will come out in late 2021, so there will be plenty of time for Katie and I to make changes based on our experiences this fall.
You can download it here.
Feedback is welcome!
July’s Best Lists – There Are Now 2,186 Of Them!
Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,186 of them categorized here):
HERE ARE DETAILED – & TENTATIVE – DISTANCE LEARNING PLANS FOR ALL MY FALL CLASSES
A LOOK BACK: 2020’S BEST POSTS FROM THIS BLOG – PART ONE
TERRIBLE NEWS: JOHN LEWIS HAS PASSED – LEARN ABOUT HIS LIFE
THE TEN MOST POPULAR POSTS IN 2020 – SO FAR
THE BEST RESOURCES ON INSTRUCTION IN 2020 – PART ONE
THE BEST ONLINE TOOLS STUDENTS CAN USE COLLABORATIVELY TO CREATE PROJECTS – PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE ADD YOUR FAVORITES!
My Favorite Posts That Appeared In July
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 reviewing old favorites, too. Check out A LOOK BACK: 2020’S BEST POSTS FROM THIS BLOG – PART ONE.
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:
THE DISTANCE LEARNING CHAPTER OF OUR NEW BOOK WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR FREE ON SATURDAY
NEXT: HERE’S A DISTANCE-LEARNING PLAN FOR MY THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE CLASSES
UPDATED DISTANCE LEARNING PLAN FOR MY NEWCOMER/INTERMEDIATE ELL CLASS
CHECK OUT NEW ED WEEK VIDEO: “TIPS FOR NEW TEACHERS THIS FALL”
“Q&A COLLECTIONS: WRITING INSTRUCTION”
OKAY, NOW, HERE’S MY TENTATIVE REMOTE TEACHING PLAN FOR U.S. HISTORY
GUEST POST: HOW TEACHERS & STUDENTS CAN USE GOOGLE CLASSROOM’S CALENDAR MOST EFFECTIVELY – PART TWO
WASHINGTON POST REPUBLISHES MY “EIGHT WORRIES”
GUEST POST TUTORIAL: CONNECTING GOOGLE CLASSROOM TO YOUR CALENDAR SO STUDENTS CAN MAKE APPOINTMENTS
EIGHT WORRIES ABOUT THE FALL THAT ARE KEEPING THIS TEACHER AWAKE AT NIGHT
WOW, THIS SEEMS LIKE THE MOTHER LODE OF ALL EDUCATION RESEARCH PAPERS
CRITICAL QUESTION FOR US TEACHERS: WHAT AREN’T WE GOING TO COVER THIS YEAR
“A SUPERINTENDENT EXPLAINS WHY HAVING TO DECIDE ABOUT FALL REOPENING IS THE ‘ABSOLUTE WORST’”
“WINDOWSWAP” IS A GREAT SITE FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
ALL SACRAMENTO COUNTY SCHOOLS WILL START ONLINE
“CURRIKI STUDIO” LOOKS LIKE AN EXCEPTIONAL TOOL FOR CREATING INTERACTIVES
GOOGLE UNVEILS NEW INTERACTIVE SITE ON EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHS
IF YOU ARE WONDERING WHY TEACHERS HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN BETSY DEVOS, WATCH THIS CNN VIDEO
THIS IS GREAT – CANVA BEGINS TO UNVEIL REAL-TIME COLLABORATION ABILITY!
“STRATEGIES FOR USING MUSIC IN ALL SUBJECTS”
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LOST ITS MIND TODAY ABOUT REOPENING SCHOOLS
DEVOS TELLS TEACHERS THAT THEY JUST NEED MORE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING SKILLS, NOT MORE MONEY, TO OPEN SCHOOLS SAFELY
USING THE TERM “ACHIEVEMENT GAP” INCREASES PEOPLE’S BIASES AGAINST AFRICAN-AMERICANS & REDUCES EXPECTATIONS
“TIPS FOR WORKING WITH CLASSROOM AIDES”
PODCAST INTERVIEW WITH AUTHORS OF ALL THE “TOOLBOX” BOOKS
STUDY FINDS ONE-THIRD OF U.S. FIFTEEN YEAR-OLDS FEEL DISCONNECTED FROM SCHOOL – & THAT WAS BEFORE THE PANDEMIC
July’s Most Popular Posts
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 It’s The Thirteenth Anniversary Of This Blog – Here Are The Forty All-Time Most Popular Posts.
Not to mention A LOOK BACK: 2020’S BEST POSTS FROM THIS BLOG – PART ONE.
Here are this month’s most popular posts:
1.SHOULD TEACHERS WEAR FACE SHIELDS, MASKS, OR BOTH?
2. The Best Websites For Creating Online Learning Games
3. The Best Online Virtual “Corkboards” (or “Bulletin Boards”)
4. The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom
5. GET A FREE PDF OF THE NY TIMES’ “1619 PROJECT”
6. My “Best Of” Series
7. The Best Places To Get The “Same” Text Written For Different “Levels”
8. The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories
9. EIGHT WORRIES ABOUT THE FALL THAT ARE KEEPING THIS TEACHER AWAKE AT NIGHT
10.THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LOST ITS MIND TODAY ABOUT REOPENING SCHOOLS
