Bill Page

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Fifty Years of Teaching

by Bill Page
www.teacherteacher.com
Continued from page 4
March 1, 2009

The Four Most Valuable Lessons I Have Ever Learned

The following four videos, hosted on YouTube, are excerpts from a 13-minute VHS tape that was recorded 13 years ago.

  1. You Make the Decisions
  2. Begin With the Givens
  3. Today is the Day
  4. Being and Becoming

Thirty of my articles have been published and are available in the archives of the teachers.net/gazette The wide variety of articles can give an additional glimpse of my educational philosophy and methods. At the end of this article is a list of two dozen articles that have been run in the past issues. Here are three recommendations:

The last half of Classroom Rules??? (Aug 2002) tells how I run my classroom.

  • What I Know I Know (July 2002) gives my beliefs about the educative process. This is the preface of my At-Risk Students Book.

With joy in sharing, Bill Page

Comments and questions are welcome and will be answered. billpage@bellsouth.net

At-Risk Students: Feeling Their Pain, Understanding Their Defensive Ploys. “Insights and strategies for kids who can’t, don’t, or won’t learn, try, follow procedures, cooperate, or behave.”

At-Risk Student: One whom teachers cannot motivate, interest, control, or teach via traditional techniques.

The term “At-Risk” refers to being at risk of failure, but it has come to mean “at-certain” of not being taught.

At-Risk Students is currently in its Second Printing and was released January 2009, 280 pages, $24.95 including P & H, Educational Dynamics Publishers, Nashville, TN, Visit www.TeacherTeacher.com for information, preview, and orders. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Send to billpage@bellsouth.net for quantity discounts for Teacher Study Groups.

My favorite article, “Insights and Strategies for Kids Who Can’t, Don’t, or Won’t even try to Learn, Cooperate, or Behave can be read or downloaded free at: www.teacherteacher.com .

Teachers can sign up there for my free monthly newsletter: At-Risk Student Advocate.

“To the world you may be just one person: but to one person you just may be the world.”



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About Bill Page ...

Bill Page, a farm boy, graduated from a one-room school. He forged a career in the classroom teaching middle school “troublemakers.” For the past 26 years, in addition to his classroom duties, he has taught teachers across the nation to teach the lowest achieving students successfully with his proven premise, “Failure is the choice and fault of schools, not the students.”

Bill Page is a classroom teacher. For 46 years, he has patrolled the halls, responded to the bells, and struggled with innovations. He has had his share of lunchroom duty, bus duty, and playground duty. For the past four years, Bill, who is now in his 50th year as a teacher, is also a full time writer. His book, At-Risk Students is available on Abebooks, Amazon, R.D. Dunn Publishing, and on Bill’s web site: //www.teacherteacher.com/

In At-Risk Students, Page discusses problems facing failing students, “who can’t, don’t and won’t learn or cooperate.” “The solution,” he states, “is for teachers to recognize and accept student misbehavior as defense mechanisms used to hide embarrassment and incompetence, and to deal with causes rather than symptoms. By entering into a democratic, participatory relationship, where students assume responsibility for their own learning.” Through 30 vignettes, the book helps teachers see failing students through his eyes as a fellow teacher, whose classroom success with at-risk students made him a premier teacher-speaker in school districts across America.


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