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.

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) – also note that I group many updates on the Trump administration’s current attack on education and democracy in weekly posts you can find here):

“Five Strategies For Student Self-Assessment”

“Four Ways To Cultivate Critical Thinking With English Language Learners”

“Putting Teacher Action Research Into…Action”

“Four Ways To Give ELL Students Feedback on Writing”

Here’s The 140 Question Quizizz I Use As A Review & An Assessment In My ELL Newcomers Class

PBS Is Airing A Documentary About Hannah Arendt Next Week – Here Are Resources About Her Work

“Fifteen Ways To Adapt Your Textbook So Your Students Aren’t Bored To Death”

Peer Review Process & Downloadable Form I Used This Year

“Four Games For Vocabulary Development”

“Describe The Word” Is A Good AI-Powered Game For ELLs For Vocabulary & Oral Practice

“Eight Ways To Help English Language Learners Feel Motivated To Read & Write”

“Three New ‘Moves’ I’m Trying Out In The Classroom”

Study Highlights The Value Of Teachers “Faking It Until We Make It”

I Retired From K-12 Classroom Teaching Today

Image: “Unknown Unknowns”

Does Advanced Tech Mean That Secondary ELL Classes Should Be Radically Restructured?

Quizizz Lets You Use AI To Create Interactive YouTube Videos Once Again After Having To Stop Last Year – I Think It’s One Of The Most Helpful Ways To Use AI

My Student Cellphone Policy This Year Was A Bit Different Than Most – But It Worked Out Reasonably Well

I Wrote Nearly 100 NY Times Posts On Teaching ELLs – Here Are Links To All Of Them

The “ML Summit,” One Of The Best Online Learning Opportunities For ELL Teachers, Is On July 12th & It’s Free!

Video: “The clever trick used by sports betting apps” Is Great For Classrooms – How To Use It Through “Reactance”

Yet Another Study Finds That Peer Tutoring Is Effective For Tutors & The Students Being Tutored

“Video Tutor” Looks Like It Could Be A Decent AI Tool – It Creates Videos To Answer Your Questions

TED-Ed Video About Lobotomies – And My Family Has A Personal Connection To This Horror

What Role Can “Precedents Thinking” Have In Education?

“Bloom Library” Is An Excellent Source Of Accessible Online Books In Many Languages

For The Few Teachers Who Still Believe In “Don’t Smile Until Christmas,” There’s Research Now That Shows It Doesn’t Work

New Study Reinforces My Experience Of Feeling That Having A Growth Mindset Makes Me A Better Teacher

NEWLY REVISED: The (Few) AI Tools I Use Regularly & How I Use Them

Was This The Biggest Teaching Mistake I Made This Year?

“The Power Of Mattering At Work” Is A Harvard Business Review Article Worth Reading

My Voluntary Student “Exit Interviews” Are Always A Great Way To End The School Year

“How to Deal With Andrew Tate and the ‘Manosphere’ in Classrooms”

“AI Tutors Can Be Both a Help and a Hindrance in the Classroom, Explain Teachers”

‘The Boys Quoting Andrew Tate Aren’t Your Enemy’

“Teachers Share Their Best Advice—in 6 Words or Less”

“COVID Still Affects Classrooms. Here’s How”

“5 Cost-Free Ways to Make Life Better for Teachers (Downloadable)”

“How to Open Up Your Classrooms to Graphic Novels”

“Up Your Teaching With These Little-to-No Prep Strategies”

“Advice for Beginning—and Veteran—Teachers”

“10 Things I Will (and Won’t) Miss When I Retire”

Source link