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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: Meaningful feedback is by Jo Castelino. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning How To Best Give Feedback To Students. How and Why to Use Concept Maps is from Cult of Pedagogy.
The poverty of Explicit Instruction is from The Education Contrarian.
     A Key Issue Often Overlooked In Efforts To Reduce Use Of Laptops In Class – It’s Going To Make More Work For Teachers Mohamed_hassan / Pixabay
I agree with calls to reduce screentime in class for students and, if I was still in the classroom, I would have done so already (see Was This The Biggest Teaching Mistake I Made This Year?). But, as I said in this BlueSky post, an overlooked issue in this discussion is that reducing student screentime will result in more work for teachers:
I never had students spend much time on laptops in my ELL classes, though pushed them to use it in their homes (see The Role Of Tech IN My ELL Classroom? Not Much, But That’s Not The Whole Story). And, since my ELL classes were pretty small, it was easy to handle grading and I was able to print-out any needed paper copies off my printer. Three periods of over 30 students each in my IB Theory of Knowledge classes were a different story. If I was teaching this year, I’m pretty sure that making copies and hand-grading would have added at least five-to-eight hours each week to my workload. I could have handled that since my kids are grown and I don’t have a life, but that’s a pretty big “ask” for most teachers. And please don’t quote that BS statistic about how Artificial Intelligence is saving teachers 5.9 hours each week. If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge I want to sell you. It would be nice if this campaign against screentime didn’t become just another in the endless efforts to squeeze blood out of a rock (the rock being teachers). Some ways schools could mitigate this problem could be: * Providing teachers with high-quality fast printers so they can print out class materials instead of having to wait in the teacher copier room and hope the machines don’t break down. * Create district or school-wide grading policies “codifying” that teachers should not actually grade every assignment, so that individual teachers don’t get pushback if they don’t. * Bring back student teaching assistants (TA’s) if you work in a district like ours that banned their use. TA’s can help make copies. * Create a school program like ours did for several years where TA’s worked in the school office and teachers could submit materials for copying. They would then deliver them the following day.
I’m all for schools making changes to benefit students. But those changes don’t have to hurt teachers, too.  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: Building and Sustaining a Sense of Belonging During the Transition to High School is from Stanford. I’m adding it to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING HOW TO PROMOTE A SENSE OF “BELONGING” AT SCHOOL. I’m adding this video to The Best Posts, Articles & Videos About Learning From Mistakes & Failures:  The 4 Seasons Organizations Go Through—and How to Lead in Each is from The Harvard Business Review, and I think is worth administrators and superintendents reading, and even teachers when thinking about their classrooms. I’m adding it to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES ON LEARNING ABOUT LEADERSHIP – SHARE YOUR OWN. 2 things you can do to make experiences less painful, according to experts is from The Washington Post. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On Helping Our Students Develop A “Growth Mindset.”  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): Research Bite #41: Secondary School Mathematics Teachers’ Accuracy at Predicting Student Errors is from Tips For Teachers.
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I’m adding this info to The Best Resources On Student Absenteeism:
Practice-Based Teacher Education Pedagogies Improve Responsiveness: Evidence from a Lab Experiment is a paper I’m adding to The Best Resources On Professional Development For Teachers — Help Me Find More. Kids’ Social Media Use Linked to Lower Reading and Memory Scores, Study Suggests is from Ed Week.  April’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 2,578 Of Them! Prawny / Pixabay
Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,578 of them categorized here – you might also want to check out THREE ACCESSIBLE WAYS TO SEARCH FOR & FIND MY “BEST” LISTS). Here are the lists from this month: The Best Resources Highlighting What English Language Learner Students Want From Their Teachers The Best Resources For Using The “Spot The Difference” Strategy With English Language Learners The Best Resources For Helping Students Understand The Impact Their Behavior Has On Classmates  More Recent Articles
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