A Unique Teacher with Unique Experiences
- Bill has run "completely individualized classrooms" going from September to June without ever addressing the entire group. And, he has done it at elementary, middle, and high school levels.
- He has gone for many years without giving an F to any student on anything ever and has helped other teachers to do the same.
- He taught a civics class of 527 ninth graders by himself in an auditorium for a year
- Bill taught a completely individualized math class of 93 seventh graders.
- He taught a "wild" innovative, open school where they eliminated the halls, walls, bells, classes, grades, report cards, textbooks, schedules, and curriculum and used a teacher controlled variable, flexible schedule that changed daily.
- He taught in a district of 10,000 teachers and one of 300 teachers. He taught in schools ranging from elite to inner-city populations in seven districts in four states.
- He graduated eighth-grade from a one room country school with 27 kids in all eight grades.
- For three years Bill taught the lowest achievers in a large school in a federal research project based on the premise:” The problem isn't what's wrong with the kids, it's what teaching programs are doing to them." He taught 32 teachers to replicate the program in sixteen other schools in two states.
- For twenty-six consecutive years, Bill has taught teachers in summer courses at the University of California, to teach regular classes to individualize and to teach students at-risk by teacher’s shifting their roles from taskmasters to resources.
- He set-up and directed an entire innovative elementary school on an ungraded, individualized, team basis.
- He taught demonstration classes of “troublemakers” in a joint project for Peabody College and the Kennedy Child Study Center and Metropolitan Nashville Schools.
- Bill taught in a juvenile facility and psychiatric hospital.
- He served as a remediation specialist for two psychological services organizations.
MEET BILL PAGE, A teacherteacher
Bill Page is a classroom teacher. For 50 years, 1958-2008, he patrolled the halls, responded to the bells and struggled with reforms. He had his share of lunchroom duty, playground duty bus duty, staff development meetings, and reform movements.
Bill has had remarkable success in closing the gap between successful students and those at-risk. His specialty is individualization. He has run completely individualized classes at all levels, working with problem students in heterogeneous groupings.
Bill has spoken to hundreds of thousands of teachers in staff development programs throughout North America. He taught extension courses for twenty-six consecutive summers at the University of California at Riverside, San Diego, Irvine, Santa Barbara and Davis, and taught fourteen different methods courses for teachers at eighty-six universities.
As a speaker, Bill does not present himself as an “expert,” instead, he offers his testimonial as a classroom teacher who discovered and developed his own educational philosophy and created his own effective strategies. Bill’s personal message gets at the heart of professional attitude, personal responsibility and individual teacher initiative for increasing effectiveness and increasing the achievement of all students.
