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The Best Sites To Find Short & Engaging Prompts For “Do Nows” Or Presentations Dany_Sthalin07 / Pixabay
Student warm-ups and presentation topics are generally better when they are directly connected to the topic being discussed in the classroom. Sometimes, though, for a change, it can be nice to provide students with more choice. Here are a few places that provide long lists of prompts: Oxplore provides prompts, along with related resources students can use to explore those topics further. Kialo does the same thing. KQED’s Do Nows also offer questions and resources. The NY Times Learning Network offers daily questions.      “Speaking Monkey” Looks Like A Good (& Free) AI Tool For ELLs To Practice Pronunciation
Speaking Monkey provides lots of sentences for users to practice repeating, and then provides an assessment. If you want to create your own sentences, you have to pay to subscribe. I’m adding it to: The Most Useful Free Or VERY Low Cost AI Tools For Supporting English Language Learners THE BEST SITES FOR ONLINE PRONUNCIATION FEEDBACK – DO YOU KNOW OTHERS?  A Look Back: Schools Could Do Far Worse Than Making This New Research Paper A Focus Of Professional Development For Months To ComeFor the next several months, each week I’ll be republishing posts from the past that I think readers might still find useful. This post first appeared in 2021.
The cognitive challenges of effective teaching by Stephen Chew and William Cerbin is one of the best and most practical research studies anyone in education is going to find. It was behind a paywall, but you can now download it now for free here. They lay-out a list of key challenges facing teachers, and then offer a number of different strategies for responding to them. As the text box on top highlights, they recognize that we all face different school environments so, though the challenges may be common, the responses to them are not. Here’s their list of challenges. Though you definitely want to read their paper, and I don’t say that about a whole of studies, I’ve also hyperlinked several of them to “Best” lists on the topic you can find elsewhere on this blog: Misconceptions Ineffective learning strategies Constraints of selective attention Constraints of mental effort and working memory
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 SEL Weekly Update
I’ve begun this weekly post where I’ll be sharing resources I’m adding to The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources or other related “Best” lists. Also, check out “Best” Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources. Here are this week’s picks: What Olympians Can Teach Us About Disappointment is from The NY Times. I’m adding it to The Best Posts, Articles & Videos About Learning From Mistakes & Failures. This Is The Simplest Way To Make Your Life Awesome is from Barking Up The Wrong Tree. How your personality impacts your career success (and what you can do about it) is from Fast Company. I’m adding this video to The Best Posts & Articles On Building Influence & Creating Change:
This is an excerpt from I was an unlikely Super Bowl MVP. You should know the full story: Luck was not a concept we considered impacting a football game. It was never a topic of conversation whether we got a good break or a bad one. Coach Carroll never said: “We’ve got to get lucky.” In sports, you have to make your own luck. You’re either in a position to take advantage of situations, or you’re not. You either did something to get you there in that position, or you didn’t. That’s always been my thought, and that’s the undertone to my career. I choose to believe that you make your own luck and fortune with the extra effort that often goes unseen. I’m adding it to THE BEST RESOURCES ON LEARNING HOW TO IMPROVE OUR “LUCK”  Paulo Freire Was Born On This Day In 1921 – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
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