Teaching is a dynamic endeavor. As instructors, we are continually looking for ways to grow and improve. We want to make sure that we are serving our students to the best of our abilities and, thereby, creating inclusive, engaging, and meaningful learning experiences. As part of this journey, we might consider incorporating high impact practices…
GDJ / Pixabay Listen, Khan Academy can be very helpful to English Language Learners with all their multilingual videos. But their overselling of Kahnmigo is getting a bit much – exemplified by tonight’s 60 Minutes critique-free infomercial on it. It would have been nice to offer some differing views…. You can see the entire…
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Odds are that most of us teachers, at some points in our career, are going to have a handful of students who appear to just not like us. I’ve previously shared lots of potential different strategies to use to try to de-polarize this kind of situation, which you can find at Best Posts On…
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As regular readers know, I’ve been doing the Classroom Q&A column over at Education Week for thirteen years. And I plan to continue doing it for quite a few more years. I have so many contributors now, though, that there really isn’t space there for my annual thematic compilation posts, where I collect…
How can Teachers Best Prepare for Retirement? is the headline of one of my recent Education Week columns. After years in the classroom, the time is approaching to move on. So the big question is, what’s next? Here are some excerpts: How can Teachers Best Prepare for Retirement? is the headline of one of my…
It continues to be time for end-of-year “Best” lists. You can see all my previous Online Learning Games “Best” lists (and there are a lot since I’ve doing this since 2007) here. Note that they’re also continually revised and updated. Here are my picks from the second part of 2024: You can find many text-based “choose…
Eight years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2021. Also, check out…
As regular readers know, I’ve been doing the Classroom Q&A column over at Education Week for thirteen years. And I plan to continue doing it for quite a few more years. I have so many contributors now, though, that there really isn’t space there for my annual thematic compilation posts, where I collect links…