This web page is primerly intended to be used as a tool to communicate academically with my students. Here you will find assingments, projects, messages for our main content areas and club activities as well. Visit  frequently to check updates and send your comments and suggestions to improve this site.                             -Mr. E.-

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Bolletin:

Course Theme: Humane Education

If life has a purpose, last course (2005-2006,) I finally discovered the holistic purpose of my profession as an educator, my responsability to teach Humane Education. After many years of practicing, promoting and living empirically the principles of the Humane Education, I discovered there is a teaching approach to promote those values and the life style I have believed in for a long time, and I am inspired to continue linking and integrating the Humane Education Principles into my content area.

Last course at John A. Ferguson Senior High, I started an experiment, by integrating Humane Education discussion topics, research, reflections, critical thinking among other teaching techniques with my ESOL students, and it resulted in an inspiring end of the course, after receiving verbal and written testimonies from my students of how those topics changed their lifes forever and how they helped them to be better human beings.

I witnessed the prosess, I saw the change, and there hasn't being something more rewarding in my teaching carrer than seing my students improve academically and humanely, ready to aproach life from a new perspective, and knowledgeable of how their choices can affect or improve the world we live in.

Because of the above, I have decided to continue working on this project by integrating the principles of Humane Education into our curriculum.  

(To know about Humane Education, visit the link on the left.)

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Teacher's Prayer:

 I want to teach my students how to live this life on earth, to face its struggles and its strife and improve their worth. Not just the lesson in a book or how the rivers flow, but how to choose the proper path wherever they may go.

 To understand eternal truth and know the right from wrong and gather all the beauty of a flower and a song.

 For if I help the world to grow in wisdom and grace then I shall feel that I have won and I have filled my place.

 And so I ask your guidance, God that I may do my part for character and confidence and happiness of heart.

Amen.

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 Resources for Teachers

 Recomended Materials for ESOL

Guide to complit an LEP Student Plan

ESOL Functional Levels

ESOL Strategies

Individual LEP Plan Form

Active Lesson Plan Form

Instructional Strategies and Active Lesson Plan Form

Suggested Strategies Part I

Suggested Strategies Part II

Bilingual Department Resources

Palm Beach County Multicultural Department

Sunshine State Standards for Language Arts

 English for Speakers of Other Languages ESOL

Recomended Instructional Materials

ESOL Competency Based Curriculum or CBCs

English Through ESOL

English I Through ESOL

English II Through ESOL

English III Thorugh ESOL

Ensglish IV Through ESOL

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English I through ESOL

English II through ESOL

English III through ESOL

English IV through ESOL

Developmental Language Arts Through ESOL

Developmental Language Arts Through ESOL I

Developmental Language Arts Through ESOL II

Developmental Langugae Arts Through ESOL III

Developmental Language Arts Through ESOL IV

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