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Free Resources From All “My” Books
Every two months, I reprint this post so that new subscribers learn about these resources. I have many free resources, including excerpts and student hand-outs, available from all “my” books (“my” is quotation marks because several are ones I have co-authored or edited). Clicking on the covers will lead you to them. Katie and I have begun work on a new book for both ELL and non-ELL educators. Look for it in Spring, 2027! Coming up with an idea for a book and then getting a contract with a publisher for it is great – up until the time one actually has to write it 🙂
    
      Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week
Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You can also see all my “Best” lists on instructional strategies here. Here are this week’s picks: When Feedback Creates Readers (and When It Doesn’t) is from From Experience To Meaning. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning How To Best Give Feedback To Students. Here are instructions to a Talking Points activity from Ilana Horn. I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles On How To Teach “Controversial” Topics. 4 Ways to Make Story Problems More Engaging and Accessible is from Edutopia. This is from Dan Meyer: Here are some slides and handouts from Anand Bernard’s talk at Utah’s state math teacher conference last week. Who is Anand Bernard? No one I knew before last week, but I attended his talk and I liked it a lot. He and I nominally covered similar ground at UCTM—how to help students learn and love learning math—but Anand covered it on the level of classroom routines and rituals, which has never been a particular area of strength of mine. Why Modeling Matters in Elementary Writing Instruction is from IES. I’m adding it to THE BEST RESOURCES TO LEARN ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF TEACHER MODELING.
The Research on Protecting Teacher Well-Being is from Edutopia.  Apparently, Data Driven Learning Related To Language Learning Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does akshayapatra / Pixabay
I’ve never been a big fan of being “data-driven” in education (see The Best Resources Showing Why We Need To Be “Data-Informed” & Not “Data-Driven”). Imagine my surprise, however, when I learned that the term “data driven learning” apparently means something completely different in language learning circles. I saw a study titled The impact of data-driven learning form-focused tasks on learners’ task engagement: an intervention study. It sounded like data-driven learning was awfully similar to inductive learning (see The Best Resources About Inductive Learning & Teaching). So, I asked ChatGPT: Is data-driven learning (DDL) similar to inductive learning? Here’s its answer: Yes. Data-Driven Learning (DDL) is closely related to inductive learning, but they aren’t synonymous. I’d describe DDL as one particular way of doing inductive learning, especially in language teaching. In inductive learning, students examine examples and try to infer a pattern or rule rather than having the teacher give them the rule first:
In Data-Driven Learning, the examples—the “data”—typically come from a language corpus, meaning a large collection of authentic language. Students examine multiple examples of a word, phrase, grammatical construction, collocation, etc., and look for patterns. For example, rather than telling English learners:
you might give them corpus examples:
Then ask: “What word usually comes after interested? What pattern do you notice?” The students discover interested + in, which makes this both DDL and inductive learning. The important distinctionYou can have inductive learning without DDL. A teacher might create five sentences illustrating the past tense and ask students to determine the rule. That’s inductive teaching, but it isn’t normally considered DDL because students aren’t investigating corpus/language data. And DDL doesn’t have to be completely inductive. A teacher could tell students a rule first and then have them use corpus data to investigate whether, when, and how the rule operates. That’s DDL being used more deductively. So I’d represent the relationship roughly as: Inductive learning = the broader instructional approach
For ELL teachers, I think “inductive learning using authentic language data” is probably the clearest one-sentence explanation of DDL.  The Best Resources For Teaching Social Studies To English Language Learners ArtsyBee / Pixabay
I have tons of “Best” lists related to teaching Social Studies to ELLs and English-proficient students alike, but realized I never published one specific list for ELLs, as I’ve done for math and science. So, here goes: First, here are various “Best” list collections: Tools For Teaching About Economics and Jobs
Here are some of my other previous posts: Guest Post: Teaching Social Studies To ELLs Guest Post: How A Social Studies Teacher Can Recognize The “Living History” ELLs Bring With Them Guest Post: Social Studies, ELLs & “Engagement” Guest Post: Practical Tips for Working with ELL Students in the Social Studies Classroom Guest Post: Making Social Studies Accessible to Elementary English Language Learners What Happens In A Typical Day During My ELL U.S. History Class
Here are resources from elsewhere: Social Studies for English Language Learners: Teaching Social Studies that Matters Engaging Bi/Multilingual Students in Inquiry & Argument Writing is from Read Inquire Write. 3 Strategies to Support English Language Learners in Social Studies is by Tan Huynh. Social Studies Instruction for ELLs is from Colorin Colorado. Preparing an Engaging Social Studies Lesson for ELLs: 12 Tips for Educators Teaching Social Studies to English Language Learners  This Week’s Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom geralt / Pixabay
At least, for now, I’m going to make this a weekly feature which will highlight additions to THE BEST NEW – & FREE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS THAT COULD BE USED IN THE CLASSROOM: I like the idea behind Visualize.AI – you upload an image of something (car part, appliance, etc.) and that it’s supposed to tell you how it works. But I didn’t have a lot of luck getting it to do what it says it can do.
AI Transparency Surveys: A Tool for Navigating Student Choices Together appeared in Edutopia. Beyond the Brainstorming Plateau: What AI for Teachers Could Look Like
Chatbots From Classroom to Conference: Fostering Collaboration in Language Learning with Mizou is from FLT Magazine. I’m adding this post to THE “BEST” IDEAS FOR USING CHATGPT, BARD, & OTHER FORMS OF AI WITH STUDENTS:
I’m adding this post to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR HELPING STUDENTS SEE THE BENEFITS OF WRITING (IN THE AI AGE):
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