50 Must-See Blogs For Special Education Teachers
While being a teacher is never easy, working with students in special education comes with some unique challenges. From writing lengthy IEPs to working closely with parents and other teachers, it takes a calm, collected, organized, confident, and very special person to work with students who often need a great deal more support and assistance than their peers to succeed. Yet even the best special education teachers can use a little guidance, inspiration, and information to help them to be even better at what they do. That’s just what the 50 blogs we’ve collected here can do. Special Education Teaching Tips and Strategies These blogs are written by teachers and educational professionals who share their ideas, tips, tools, and advice for working with special education students. Technology and Assistive Technology Technology is a big part of just about every classroom these days, including special ed. Special Topics Special Education News and Policy Special Education Law
50 Education Blogs For Future Teachers
School Counselor Blog: Danielle Schultz and her crew talk about the issues and strategies involved with counseling kindergarteners through 12th graders on both academic and personal matters.The Principal Blog: Here, an elementary school principal opens up about the day-to-day elements of her job and shares resources and ideas that have helped her through different dilemmas.Superintendent’s Blog: While it understandably doesn’t update as frequently as some of the other blogs listed here, this Bedford, Mass. Education Policy and Activism Education Gadfly Weekly: Presented by The Thomas B. Educational Technology Darcy Moore: This wildly popular, award-winning educator and administrator from Australia loves talking pedagogic strategies, technology, and their creative intersections, making her blog an essential read for up-and-comers.Dangerously Irrelevant: Dangerously Irrelevant is all about innovation, and these days, innovation is all about technology. Higher Education Special Education
Tips for making the perfect blog post
You can over-think these things, and it’s generally better to write something interesting than worry too much about a formula – but this is a useful guide to the kind of things you might think about if you’re utterly determined to get noticed. If your blog is part of your attempts at personal branding, if you’re wanting to be noticed above all and want to use your blog to push your career onwards and upwards, then do two things: write something interesting, and take these tips for how to present your brilliant thoughts. Tips from Blogpros.
Ideal Blog Post Length for SEO
“It depends.” What a totally unsatisfying answer. Of course it depends. Here are guidelines for length for ten types of content. Now that you’ve got the data, let’s look at the research… Ideal Blog Post Length for SEO Blog posts vary in length from a few short paragraphs (Seth Godin style) to 40,000 words (Neil Patel style). When serpIQ analyzed high ranking pages, they found more text correlates with high rankings. (source) On this chart, “content” includes navigation, sidebar content, and other page elements, so the numbers here look slightly higher than the recommended blog post length. Think about it this way: Google is a research tool. Another reason is links. The ideal length for a search optimized blog post is 1,500 words. Ideal Length for an Email Subject Line Surprisingly, the length of an email subject line doesn’t have a big impact on open and clickthrough rates. Even if the benefits are in the single digits, most experts would say shorter is better. Ideal Line Length
Use a Google Form to Keep Track of Student Blogs
One of the questions that I am often asked about using blogs in the classroom is, "how do you keep track of them all?" Even if you have all of your students contributing to the same blog it can be difficult to keep up with all of the posts. One strategy that I've used in the past is to have students enter their names and links to their most recent posts into a Google Form. All of their submissions will appear in a tidy spreadsheet. I offer strategies like this one and many more in my Practical Ed Tech course, Blogs and Social Media for Teachers and School Leaders.
