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| Teachers.Net Gazette Vol.6 No.3 | March 2009 |
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 Fifty Years of Teaching | ||
| by Bill Page www.teacherteacher.com Continued from page 4 March 1, 2009 |
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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. 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.
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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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.”