Katrina Schwartz has written an excellent article over at MindShift headlined How Do You Know When A Teaching Strategy Is Most Effective? John Hattie Has An Idea. She’s done a masterful job of explaining a fairly...
Read MoreHere are some useful resources I use in my IB Theory of Knowledge classes, and they are also applicable to other classes: First, many teachers are familiar with the Jigsaw cooperative learning activity. You can learn more about...
Read MoreI’m a big fan of using games with my English Language Learners (see The Best Ideas For Using Games In The ESL/EFL/ELL Classroom) and, clearly, some games are better than others. Some of the ones that are near the bottom,...
Read MoreI recently saw this site called JigZone, and began wondering if there was any way it might be useful to English Language Learners. It allows you to upload photos and then turn them into jigsaw puzzles that you and others can...
Read MoreSolar System Jigsaw is another game from the BBC where the player has to put the planets in the correct order. It’s a good reinforcement activity if students have already learned the planets in class. If that’s the...
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