The document outlines the many responsibilities expected of teachers including monitoring students' health and behavior, maintaining ongoing professional development, serving as a role model, ensuring student success on standardized tests, communicating frequently with parents, and incorporating various technologies and strategies into teaching. It notes that all these duties are expected to be fulfilled with limited resources and for low starting salaries. The concluding lines question how the teacher is supposed to accomplish everything without prayer.

3. • I am to check their heads occasionally for lice, maintain a safe
environment, recognize signs of potential anti-social
behavior, offer advice, write letters of recommendation for
student employment and scholarships, encourage respect for
the cultural diversity of others, and, oh yeah, always make
sure that I give the girls in my class 50 percent of my
attention.
• I’m required by my contract to be working on my own time
summer and evenings at my own expense toward advance
certification and a master’s degree; and after school, I am to
attend committee and faculty meetings and participate in
staff development training to maintain my employment
status.

4. • I am to be a paragon of virtue larger than life, such
that my very presence will awe my students into being
obedient and respectful of authority. I am to pledge
allegiance to supporting family values, a return to the
basics, and to my current administration. I am to
incorporate technology into the learning, and monitor
all Web sites while providing a personal relationship
with each student.
• I am to decide who might be potentially dangerous
and/or liable to commit crimes in school and who is
possibly being abused, and I can be sent to jail for not
mentioning these suspicions.

5. • I am to make sure all students pass the state and
federally mandated testing in all classes, whether or
not they attend school on a regular basis or complete
any of the work assigned. Plus, I am expected to make
sure that all of the students with handicaps are
guaranteed a free and equal education, regardless of
their mental or physical handicap.
• I am to communicate frequently with each student’s
parent by letter, phone, newsletter and grade card.
I’m to do all of this with just a piece of chalk, a
computer, a few books, a bulletin board, a 45 minute
more-or-less plan time and a big smile, all on a starting
salary that qualifies my family for food stamps in many
states.
• Is that all?

6. • And you want me to do all of this and expect
me not to pray?

7. What are her academic onramps for ALL kids?

8. Strategies for Inclusion
Cooperative Learning
Discovery/Exploration
Expectations
Integration of Listening, Speaking, Reading, & Writing
Meaningful/Relevant Curriculum
Metacognition
Vocabulary and Academic Language
Teacher Self-Reflection

9. Logical-Mathematical
OBJECTIVE
Spatial
Musical
Bodily-Kinesthetic
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalist
Linguistic

10. Planning Questions: How can I use:
Logical-Mathematical
numbers, calculations, logic,
Classifications, critical thinking
Spatial
visual aids, visualization,
Color, art, or metaphor
Musical
Music, environmental
Sounds, or set key points
In a rhythmic or melodic
framework
Bodily-Kinesthetic
Hands-on experience, involve
the whole body
Interpersonal
Peer sharing, cooperative
Learning, large-group
simulation
Intrapersonal
Personal feelings, memories,
Or give students choices
Naturalist
Living things, natural
Phenomena, ecological
awareness
Linguistic
Spoken or
written word

20. “It is of the utmost importance that we
recognize and nurture all of the
varied human intelligences and all of
the combinations of intelligences.”

21. “Understanding is far more likely
to be achieved if the student
encounters the material in a variety
of guises and contexts. And the best
way to bring this about is to draw on
all of the intelligences that are
relevant to that topic in as many
legitimate ways as possible.”

23. Projects & Assessments

24. Projects
1. Write a two chapter sequel to Don
Quixote.
2. Write and videotape a chapter of Don
Quixote and Sancho Panza in the 21st
century. (groups of 3 or 4)
3. Read and record three chapters of the
book. Add music and sound effects.
(groups of 1 to 3)
4. Story circle: draw seven of your favorite
scenes from D.Q. and write a summary for
each picture.

25. 5. Create a personal banner for Don Quixote or
Sancho Panza. Use a minimum of three colors
and five symbols. Explain the symbolism of
each color and object. Give examples from the
book that demonstarte that quality.
6. Create a game board with a D.Q. theme. Write
the instructions for playing your game. (group
of 1 or 2)
7. Take a stand: Don Quixote was crazy or not
crazy. Give 10 examples of actions in the book
that defend your position and why.