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“What ‘Sold a Story’ Misses About Direct Instruction”What ‘Sold a Story’ Misses About Direct Instruction is the headline of one of my recent Education Week columns. A veteran educator takes issue with Emily Hanford’s stance on a contentious instructional system. Here are some excerpts:
     Use AI To Create Parallel Text For ELLs
“Parallel text” – where one column is in English and the other column has the same words in the students’ home language – can be a very helpful strategy for both making texts accessible and for helping language acquisition. There are many online tools that offer these kinds of texts, and you can find them at THE BEST TOOLS THAT SHOW “PARALLEL TEXT” – SAME SENTENCES TRANSLATED INTO DIFFERENT LANGUAGES SIDE-BY-SIDE. Educators can also have an AI chatbot create their own. The image at the top of this blog post is an example of one ChatGPT created in response to this prompt: Create a short summary of the three branches of government in language accessible to an English Language Learner. Create it in two columns – one in English and then the other in Spanish, having the exact words on the Spanish side parallel to English side. I’d certainly use this if I was still in the classroom!
 Research Studies Of The Week Mohamed_hassan / Pixabay
I often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature. You can see all my “Best” lists related to education research here. Here are some new useful studies (and related resources): Why do teachers and students (dis-)agree in judging student motivation? A lens model perspective
Research-Backed Strategies to Keep Students on Task is from Edutopia.
 In Memoriam: Video – “Sesame Street: Patrick Stewart Soliloquy on B”
I’ve been a longtime Star Trek: The Next Generation fan and, in fact, have now began to watch the series again for the first time since it came out.   Excellent Materials For PD On Increasing Student Engagement geralt / Pixabay
A big new study on student engagement, with a zillion co-authors, including Carol Dweck, was recently released. The practices the study promoted won’t be anything new to most teachers: Practices targeted by the program. In the FUSE program, we provided teachers with professional learning that helped them to communicate a culture of learning (and overturn the culture of judgment and evaluation) through relatively short, targeted messages to students (see Table 1 and Extended Data Figure 5). These messages conveyed that all students, regardless of their past performance, can learn, improve, and do well if they work hard and seek appropriate help from teachers and peers. Examples of these messages include the ideas (a) that students’ mistakes provide useful information to teachers about what students need and about how the teachers can be more effective in their teaching, (b) that test scores represent students’ performance at one moment in time and, if not optimal, need not determine how well they can perform in the future, and (c) that the teacher has 4 rigorous but flexible classroom grading policies if students correct their mistakes and show evidence of mastering the material (via retesting or revision). (see Supplemental Online Materials). However, while the practices won’t be new, the study’s authors included the materials they used to train teachers to implement them. I think a fair number of them might be new to teachers, and suitable for distribution and discussion among faculty. You can download them here, and then scroll to page 11. I’m adding this info to The Best Posts & Articles On Student Engagement.  More Recent Articles |
