Blogs Each year, Teaching Channel has the pleasure of publishing great ideas, thoughtful reflections, and helpful advice from our community of educators in our Tchers’ Voice blog. This year was no exception! We published posts from writers across the country, covering topics from classroom management to the solar eclipse. In case you missed any of these amazing posts, here’s a wrap-up of our top reads.
Top Community Contributors
First up, let’s take a look at the most popular posts from our community contributors. We’re recognizing the bloggers who published our most-read posts with a badge to honor their work as our Top Community Bloggers. We thank them for taking time out of their lives as educators to share their wisdom with us through writing.
Want to join the ranks of these Top Community Bloggers? Check out our call for bloggers. We’d love to hear from you.
Most Read Post of 2017
Fidgeting for Physics: Spinner Science in Six Steps by Matt & Meg Richard
Runners Up
Top Five Vocabulary Strategies for English Language Learners by Erica Hilliker
Teaching Has Taught Me… Nothing by Elissa Smith
The Far-Reaching Benefits of Co-Teaching for ELLs by Jamie Ponce
Five Ways Teacher Leaders Use Storytelling by Christopher Bronke
Responsive Classroom: Empathy is the Key by Ann Rose Santoro
Most Popular Topic: English Language Learners
This year’s most popular blog topic was English Language Learners. From video playlist blogs to posts on how to teach vocabulary, our readers wanted to know more about teaching and learning with ELLs. In addition to the community posts recognized above, here are a few more of our popular ELL posts:
Video Playlist: Five Essential Practices in the Elementary ELL Classroom
Bridging Content and Language: Strategies from a Dual Language Classroom
Strengthening Teaching and Learning for ELLs
The Power of Collaboration for ELLs
And, for a closer look at all of our resources on ELLs, be sure to check out our ELL Deep Dive.
Although ELLs was clearly our top topic this year, math was a close second, especially Tch Laureate Kristin Gray’s focus on Number Talks in her DIY series of posts.
Top Tch Tips
Our monthly Tch Tips series aims to provide tips and tricks to help make your day a little easier. This series continues to be a popular one, and here are the top Tch Tips from this year:
Four Ways to Communicate with Families
Four Tips for Surviving December
Top Topics to Learn
This year, we launched a new blog series called I Want to Get Better At as a way to share resources for summer learning. Your clicks told us which topics you wanted to learn more about!
I Want to Get Better At… Classroom Management
I Want to Get Better At… Organization Next Year
I Want to Get Better At… Growth Mindset Next Year
Thanks again for reading and commenting on posts this year in Tchers’ Voice. Do you have a favorite post? Is there something new you learned from our blogs this year?
