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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

9-10-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL:







How Should Teachers Dress?
How Should Teachers Dress? is the first “question-of-the-week” at my Ed Week column this year. Responses are welcome there or here in the comments section.


Author Of Newest IB Theory Of Knowledge Textbook Has Begun A Blog
Eileen Dombrowski is the co-author of the newest IB Theory Of Knowledge textbook, and has previously written guest posts on this blog. She’s now writing her own blog, which is a “must-follow” for any TOK teacher. Here’s her description: Eileen Dombrowski, lead author of the IB Theory of Knowledge Course Companion (OUP, 2013), has recently launched a TOK blogsite that complements the course overvi
Here’s The Table Of Contents To My Upcoming Book On Student Motivation
It’s not quite yet available for pre-order from Routledge, but they do have it up on their website with a publication date of March 15, 2015. I thought blog readers might be interested in seeing the Table Of Contents: Chapter 1. I Still Want to Know: How Do You Motivate Students? Chapter 2. Still Want to Know: How Can You Best Handle Classroom Management? Chapter 3. Still Want to Know: How Can Yo


Interactive Map: “100 Years of Unrest”
100 Years of Unrest is an interactive map that has: tried to gather information on social unrest throghout last century. Protests, uprisings, rebellions and revolts, civil wars, wars for independence, revolutions were mapped. Mapping events in time has enabled to follow hotspots or temporal trends of civil disobedience across the globe. It’s based on information from Wikipedia. Thanks to Google M
How Can A Parrot Help Students Develop Self-Control?
© 2012 Tambako The Jaguar, Flickr | CC-BY-ND | via Wylio Previous readers of this blog and my blogs are familiar with much of my writing about helping students develop self-control, including lessons using the famous Marshmallow Test (see The Best Posts About Helping Students Develop Their Capacity For Self-Control). In fact, in about ten days you’ll be able to read at my Ed Week Teacher column an
9-9-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: The Ten “All-Time” Most Popular Posts From My Ed Week ColumnMy latest column at Ed Week Teacher features links to the ten “all-time” most popular posts that have appeared there. Here’s an excerpt from the number one post:4 by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h 9-8-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF