TEACHER RESOURCES

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• Academic Research Has Its Place, But It Also Has To Be Kept In Its Place

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 545
  My Teacher Leaders Network colleague Bill Ferriter has written another of his insightful posts over at The Tempered Radical. It’s called Validation and Authority in a Web 2.0 World . The post wonders if teacher research and direct experience might “trump” traditional scholarly investigations. There’s an ...
  10 hours ago

• Intriguing Study On Self-Control

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 545
  There’s a column in today’s Los Angeles Times about a study that was done to see what young people needed to have more self-control in their spending habits — Break bad shopping habits to avoid a debt hangover . There were two things in particular that I thought would be applicable to my classroom — support ...
  12 hours ago

• How I Organize My Classroom Library

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 545
  I have a pretty extensive classroom library — our school is committed to having ones in each English teacher’s classroom and spends a fair amount on books. Plus, as regular readers know, my mother-in-law volunteers with our local “Friends of the Library” group, which has contributed thousands of volumes over ...
  14 hours ago

• Helping Students Respond To Writing Prompts

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 545
  I’ve been spending some time lately trying to figure out how I can help my students respond to writing prompts a little better. The primary strategy I’ve taught is having students use this four-step approach that was suggested to me by my colleague Katie Hull: 1. Read the prompt 2. Circle important words and ...
  14 hours ago

• iLearn Technology a winner in the 2009 Edublog awards!

  
  iLearn Technology — Authority: 122
  Winner In a complete unexpected turn of events, iLearn Technology won for Best Educational Tech Support Blog in the 2009 Edublog Awards!  Thank you for all of your nominations and votes.  I am truly humbled.  I was in great company, the other 26 blogs nominated are fabulous.  You can view the results here. ...
  23 hours ago

• Studies Find There’s No Such Thing as Learning Styles – As Teachers, Should We Care?

  
  tweenteacher.com — Authority: 103
  According to Psychcentral.com , “Learning Styles are being re-evaluated” and negated. This theory, according to a recently published journal article claims that there is really no research out there to prove that students learn differently from one another. Shrug. Cue eye roll.(...) Read the rest of Studies ...
  1 day ago

• Jogstr For Recommendations

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 545
  Jogstr is like Stumbleupon for sites that have been bookmarked on the popular Digg service. You can identify your preferences, and the sites you see will go through that filter first (Got to “My Jogstr Preferences” in the upper right hand corner). I’ve added it to The Best Places To Get Blog, Website, Book, ...
  1 day ago

• Wordle Of My Book On Teaching English Language Learners

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 545
  I’ve just created a Wordle out of my upcoming book, “English Language Learners: Teaching Strategies That Work.” Wordle is a free and easy web application that lets you paste text into it and then produces a “word cloud” illustrating the words that are used most with their size showing their frequency of ...
  1 day ago

• My Ten Most Memorable Teaching Moments — 2009 (What Were Yours?)

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 545
  I was driving back from school today as we enter our winter break, and began to think a bit over the past twelve months. As my mind tends to do, I began to think in terms of lists . So I decided to compile a list of My Most Memorable Teaching Moments for this year, and invite others to share their own in the ...
  2 days ago

• Walking In Someone Else’s Shoes

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 545
  “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird) Empathy, it seems to me, is a pretty important quality to have and to cultivate in others. I’d like to share a few resources that ...
  3 days ago

• An Optimistic but Convincing Scenario by Alan Blinder

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 131
  I didnt post yesterday, but here are some items (the first three from The Wall Street Journal) that I hope will make up for it. First, this opinion piece was in yesterdays edition of The Wall Street Journal (free content at this writing). Princeton economist and former Federal Reserve Vice-chairman Alan Blinder ...
  3 days ago

• Debtors Dilemma

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 131
  The third article from The Wall Street Journal (free content at this writing) continues a series that Ive referenced recently. The article is about people who choose to walk away from their mortgages, even when they can still make the payments. What I found helpful was a side-bar about the big questions people ...
  3 days ago

• Debate about John Maynard Keynes

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 131
  Finally, on yesterdays PBS Newshour , GMU economist Russ Roberts, host of the EconTalk podcasts, and Lord Robert Skidelsky, author of the three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, debated the relevance of Keynes in todays economy. Russ is also working on a rap about Keynes, apparently. The Newshour piece is ...
  3 days ago

• iboard: Balancing Animals

  
  iLearn Technology — Authority: 122
  What it is: Balancing Animals is another fun activity for your interactive whiteboard that lets students use animals as ‘non-standard’ units to weigh others.  Students can drag an animal (or animals) up to the scale, other students try to balance the scale by choosing animals that would cause the scale to be ...
  4 days ago

• A One-Armed Economist

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 131
  This is why President Truman asked for a one-armed economist. And while this isnt a circumstance of one economist espousing both positions, its still an example of why many people dont trust economics or economists. On the one hand... and on the other... The message depends on what you hope to promote, I suspect. ...
  5 days ago

• iboard: Visual Numbers

  
  iLearn Technology — Authority: 122
  What it is: Visual Numbers is another great sample application from iboard for interactive whiteboards.  Visual Numbers lets students add numbers (1-20) to the workspace above.  You can show or hide counters to represent each number.  This is a fantastic visual for students learning how to count, add, ...
  6 days ago

• A Not To Be Missed New Website: Zinn Education Project: Teaching a People’s History”

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 545
  Zinn Education Project: Teaching a People’s History is  a collaboration between Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change! As their announcement states: The new site features over 75 free, downloadable teaching activities for middle- and high- school students to bring a people’s history to the ...
  6 days ago

• iboard: Interactive Number Square

  
  iLearn Technology — Authority: 122
  What it is: Interactive Number Square is another great sample application from iboard for interactive whiteboards.  This number grid is versatile allowing you to hide numbers, change the color of squares, change the start number of the grid, add more or less columns and rows, and choose a step number. ...
  6 days ago

• iboard: Counting Fish

  
  iLearn Technology — Authority: 122
  What it is: Counting Fish is a fun sample interactive whiteboard activity from iboard.  Students can count fish added to the ocean, add, group, subtract, and compare sets.  Click on “Totals” to find out how many of each fish have been added to the ocean. How to integrate iboard: Counting Fish ...
  6 days ago

• My Best Posts In 2009 (That Weren’t “The Best…” Lists)

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 545
  Yesterday, I shared my picks for The Best “The Best…” lists of the year. Now, it’s time for me to share my choices for my best posts that weren’t “The Best…” lists during the past twelve months. Remember that I write a “Top Ten” list each month sharing the non-”The Best….” posts that I ...
  6 days ago

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