See NCLB Instructionally - No Longer About the Zip Code - It Applies Nationally

Teach the Total Learner, Not Just a Topic

Teachers That Continually Learn As They Teach and Build Relationships With Learners










Jaime Escalante AND Kay Toliver

1. Bridge to the Next Level -Excerpt from Stand and Deliver: What is Calculus?
2. On the Road to Optimization: Kay Toliver's Lesson: The Apartment

What is ESL?

English as a Second Language Instructional strategies involve best practices that also help us to teach the total learner. I believe that teachers that know L1 and L2 have a special advantage in building biliteracy as well as bilingualism. This advantage is built upon academic training and practical, communicative and cultural experience.

1. What is ESL? Multimedia model
2. Instructional Strategies that Benefit Across Content Areas
3. Second Language Learning for Young Culturally Diverse Learners

What is GT? New York Offers Some History

A History of Giftedness AND Gifted Education
(Part One & Part Two)

Profiles of the Gifted and Talented - Types I through VI

There are six (6) recognized profiles for Gifted and Talented Learners:

Type 1 - Successful Type 4 - Dropouts
Type 2 - Challenging Type 5 - Double-Labeled
Type 3 - Underground Type 6 - Autonomous

Texas GT Tools Are Meant to Be Used

* GT Toolkit *Equity in GT Enrollments * GT Project Standards

* Content Area Product that Models the Standards of All Three

* Student Product

What is GT? Beyond "Type 1" As All We See

To meet NCLB instructionally, we have to teach today's learners as if they have always been GT.

To meet NCLB instructionally, to get District numbers to where they should be, we have to rethink CEP instructionally and use data to teach in ways that transform "G" into "GT." This site is dedicated to the proposition that really smart people add to and multiply the abilities of others rather than minimize, penalize and subtract from their potential.

2011 means that we all win. And, that all subgroups meet 75% mastery to win. The rules have changed, and we will adapt to that change.

2013 means that we all win. And, that ALL students master the school game because all districts will respect both local and national expectations in order to win.

In the end, your and their success is entirely linked. There is no room for bias in a world where team success must take place based on expectations, merit and rules.

But can we teachers undergo transformation to maximize their "public" education? Who are you willing to become?


TEACHING SLEEPY



We have got to learn how to teach Sleepy. Sleepy--in today's classrooms of the NCLB era--no longer bears one stereotype.
Freestyle or no style, exemplary education goes forth
from all of us having and renewing a teachable spirit.
Teach to learn, continually learn how to teach, and then teach Sleepy and others how to do both.

ONGOING PROJECTS AND MODULES - NCLB INSTRUCTIONALLY MEANS USING THE STRATEGIES THAT BUILD GT

To Teach Sleepy, You Must Reach Sleepy

The profiles below are based on 4 talented young learners and their interests.

How might we see them as GT instructionally?

Profiles and Plans - GT & VIP

1. Teaching A.B. (A.B. Quintanilla) (Lives completely in and between two cultures - switches regularly) (Older Brother of Selena Quintanilla - A Family of Genius)

• Profiles
• Multimedia Profile (Google "Fuiste Mala video" for work product 1 from A.B.)
• (Google "Kumbia Kings Boom Boom" for work product 2)
• (Google "Kumbia Kings baila esta cumbia feat. selena" for work product 3)
• (Google "kumbia kings - mi dulce niña" for work product 4)
• (Google "Kumbia kings - Mi Gente" for work product 5)
• (Google "2412 LA ENTREVISTA CON A.B Quintanilla" for words in English & Spanish)
• (Google "ab quintanilla and peewee kumbia allstarz" for words from A.B. and Pee Wee - Key for Second Language Teachers - "Pastry?")
• Plans

2. Teaching Kris Kross

• Profiles (Student looks "G" but looks are not the whole story)
• Multimedia Profile (Google "Kris Kross It's A Shame video" for work product 1 from Kris Kross)
• Biographic Profile (Google "Kris Kross biography")
• Plans

3. Teaching Betty

• Profiles
• Multimedia (Google "Yo soy Betty, la fea intro - Versión salsa" for model en Espanol) (Google "Yo soy Betty, la fea entrevista")
• Plans

4. Teaching Emmie

• Profiles
• Multimedia Profile (Google "Life of a Goth video" for documented profile of "Emmie")
• Model Bio Profiles (Ask student to write their own)
• Plans

5. Teaching Kat

• Profiles (Student lives constantly in more than one culture - succeeds at BICS level in both)
• Multimedia Profile (Google "Kat DeLuna - CosmoGIRL! Interview" in English)
• (Google "Kat DeLuna featuring Elephant Man - Whine Up video" for work product 1)
• (Google "Kat DeLuna - Run The Show (featuring Busta Rhymes) video" for work product 2 in English)
• (Google "Kat De Luna ft Don Omar- Run The Show video" - version en espanol)
• Bio Profile (Model) (Kat De Luna - English)
• Plans

6. Teaching Satoshi

• Profiles
• Plans

7. Teaching Fuzati

• Profiles
• Multimedia (Google "Fuzati - Sous le signe du V video" for work product en Francais)
• (Google "Interview Klub des Loosers - Montpellier - Mai 2007" for words and ideas)
• Plans

8. Teaching Kenan

• Profiles
• Multimedia (Google "SNL Promo - Jake Gyllenhaal 1/11/2007" for work product 1)
• (Google "Kenan Thompson interviewed by Snakes on a Blog" for words and ideas)
• Plans

9. Teaching SWR (Suburban White Rappers)

• Profiles
• Multimedia Profile (Google "Suburban White Rappers video" for SWR work product)
• Plans

10. Teaching T-Moon

• Profiles
• Multimedia (Google "Best Female Rapper in Korea (English Lyrics)" for work product of T Moon en Korean)
• Plans

11. Teaching Yoani (Generacion Y)

• Profiles
• Plans

12. Teaching Diego

• Profiles
• Plans

13. Teaching Robert

• Profiles
• Plans

14. Teaching Cynthia Ann

• Profiles
• Plans

15. Teaching John

• Profiles
• Plans

16. Teaching Jodie

• Profiles
• Multimedia Profile (Google "jodie foster interview CBS" for work product 1 in English)
• (Google "Jodie Foster quoting Eminem" for work product 2 in English
• (Google "French Interview w/Jodie Foster-The Brave One(2007)" for work product 3 in French and English)
• Bio Profile (Model)
• Plans

17. Teaching Barack

• Profiles
• Plans

18. Teaching Temple

• Profiles
• Plans

19. Teaching Sandra (Sandra Cisneros)

• Profiles (Bilingual and Biliterate)
• Multimedia (Google"Sandra Cisneros en la convención de FLOC" for words and ideas)
• (Google "Sandra Cisneros, Caramelo" for words and ideas)
• Book Reading and Interview
• Quote from Sandra: "Sandra Cisneros, author of Bad Boys, House on Mango Street, and Woman Hollering Creek, combines her experiences working with high school drop-outs, the disempowered and the ignored of the world, and fragments from her own life as a Mexican-American growing up in Chicago into her short stories and poems.
• Ms. Cisneros finds herself especially attracted to children because of her keen aptitude for demonstrating the difficulty children have in expressing their sadness and trauma to adults, and the difficulty adults have in understanding child sadness and trauma.
  "I'm 36 on the outside, but on the inside I'm 10, I'm 14, I'm 27, and I'm 5," she said. "I don't forget what it feels like. I remember what that was like."

Profiles and Plans - GT CEP & GT VIP

Gentle Reader: to solve a problem, you must first confront it.


1. Teaching Carlos

• Profiles


• Multimedia Profile (Google "SPM phone interview from Harris County Jail PT.1" for words and ideas of Mr. Carlos Coy)


• (Google "SPM - In My Hood" for work product 1 in English)*


• Plans

2. Teaching Marshall

• Profiles


• Multimedia (Google "Eminem 8 Mile Interview" for words and ideas by Marshall Mathers)


• (Google "Eminem Lose Yourself video" for work product 1 of Mr. Marshall Mathers)


• Plans
  
  

3. Teaching Jimmy Buffett (You know he gets it but when will he go public and pass?)

• Profiles


• Multimedia (Google "JIMMY BUFFETT PROTECTS PARADISE" for words and ideas)


• (Google "Margaritaville: Jimmy Buffet Music Video"
  for work product 1 for James Buffett)


• (Google "Jimmy Buffet book "Swine Not" " for words and product 2)


• Plans

4. Teaching Andre (Dr. Dre) (A known musical perfectionist, Andre makes those producing product give only their best. Dr. Dre is known to make artists re-record one clip over 100 times.)

• Profiles


• Multimedia (Google "Dr. Dre - Detox (interview + snippet)" for words and ideas)


• (Google "Dr Dre Detox is coming" for words and ideas)


• (N.B. Dr. Dre has masterminded the studio success of many rap and hip-hop artists; Google "Dr. Dre" and his many products (and proteges) will appear)


• Plans

5. Teaching Amy (You motivate her ...but how does she motivate her?)

• Profiles


• Multimedia (Google "Amy Winehouse - Rehab" for work product 1)


• (Google "The DL: Amy Winehouse Interview" for words and ideas)


• Plans

6. Teaching Dana (Latifah) (Attitude and Aptitude)

• Profiles


• Plans

7. Teaching Curtis (50 Cent)(Appreciating "The Resilient" - the 7th GT Profile?)

• Profiles


• Multimedia Profile (Google "50 cent at home" video for words and ideas by Mr. Jackson)


• (Google "50 Cent - Ready For War (Instrumental)" for work product 1--Music by Dr. Dre)


• (Google "50 cent touch the sky instrumental CURTIS *new*" for work product 2)


• (N.B. Lyrics omitted; Google for all work product by Mr. Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cent)


• Plans

8. Teaching Bored Stiff (Every Student, Any Race)(Are we sure that being "Sage on the Stage" and/or worksheets are working?)(As Dr. Renzulli gently notes: "...No Child Left Bored?")

• Profiles


• Multimedia (Google "Bored AP Students video" for work product of "Bored AP Students")


• (Google "chillin in ap calc!" for words and ideas of "Every Student")


• Sleep In Class (Google "Sleep in Math RMHS")


• (Google "Sleep in Class video")


• (Google "Everybody sleeping during the class,,,")


• Plans

9. Teaching Tupac (2Pac Shakur)(Note: Exemplary GT Teachers need knowledge of this opus, since nearly EVERY GT kid knows something of this profile)

• Profiles


• Multimedia Profile (Google "2Pac - Dear Mama" for work product 1 of Mr. Shakur)


• (Google "2Pac - Keep Ya Head Up" for work product 2 of Mr. Shakur)


• (Google "Tupac Interview video" for words and ideas 1 of Mr. Shakur)


• (Google "2pac interview wit tanya hart" for words and ideas 2 of Mr. Shakur)

10. Teaching Robin (Could he ever just sit quietly in a worksheet class? Voted "Most Likely Not to Succeed" by his high school class)

• Profiles


• Multimedia Profile (Google "Robin Williams on Letterman Part 1" for work product in English 1)


• (Google "Mork And Mindy TV Show Opening Theme Season One 1978" for work product 2 of Robin Williams)

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ELL and ESL RESOURCES

Works Cited (Courtesy of National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition. (2006). Resources About Secondary English Language Learners, Washington, DC.)

Birdas, S., Boyson, B., Morrison, S., Peyton, J. K., & Runfola, T. (2003, December). Resources for educators of English language learners: Elementary and secondary levels. Washington, DC: Council of Chief State School Officers.
Chamot, A. U. (2000, April). Literacy characteristics of Hispanic adolescent immigrants with limited prior education in high standards. Paper presented at a Research Symposium on High Standards in Reading for Students From Diverse Language Groups: Research, Practice & Policy held April 19-20, 2000 at the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs in Washington, DC.
Fix, M. & de Velasco, J. R. (2001). Challenges facing high immigrant-serving secondary schools in the context of standards based school reform. Washington, DC: Urban Institute.Fry, R. (2003, March). Hispanic youth dropping out of U.S. schools: Measuring the challenge. Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center.
Kindler, A. (2002). Survey of the states' limited English proficient students and available educational programs and services: 2000-2001 summary report. Washington, DC: National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition.Lucas, T. (2000). Facilitating the transitions of secondary english language learners: Priorities for principals. NASSP Bulletin, 84(619), 2-16.
Macias, R. F. (2000, September). Summary report of the survey of the states' limited English proficient students and available educational programs and services, 1997-98. Washington, DC: National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition. National Center for Education Statistics. (2005, March). A profile of the American high school sophomore in 2002: Initial Results from the Base Year of the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002: Statistical Analysis Report. Washington, DC: Author.
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Pub. L. No. 107-110.
Runfola, T., Carolino, B., Lara, J., Pande, G., & Spaulding, S. (2004, January). English language learners and high school reform conference proceedings. Washington, DC: Council of Chief State School Officers. Swanson, C. B. (2004, February). Who graduates? who doesn’t? a statistical portrait of public high school graduation, class of 2001. Washington, DC: Urban Institute.U.S. Census Bureau. (2004). Foreign-born population of the United States (PPL-176). Washington, DC: Author.
Zehler, A. M., Fleischman, H. L., Hopstock, P. J., Stephenson, T. G., Pendzick, M., & Sapru, S. (2003, September). Descriptive study of services to LEP students and LEP students with disabilities: Volume I research report. Arlington, VA: Development Associates, Inc.

Earlier Projects - Youniversity (Teaching GT to Get Exemplary Outcomes that Build "Me")

AP Calculus-Aligned Projects - With Integrated Medical Themes

Earlier Projects - Youniversity (Teaching GT to Get Exemplary Results that Build Their "Me")

AP Statistics-Aligned Projects - Lesson Plans Are Located Here

Hip Hop to Success in High School

DJ Math - A Sine of the Times