DOCUMENT RESUME ED 358 173 UD 029 143 AUTHOR Rester, Donald TITLE an Instructional Guide Concerning the Highly Successful Teachi
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 358 173 UD 029 143 AUTHOR Rester, Donald TITLE An Instructional Guide Concerning the Highly Successful Teaching & Motivating Practices of Jaime Escalante for the Escalante Math Project at East Los Angeles College. INSTITUTION Los Angeles County Office of Education, Downey, CA. SPONS AGENCY ARCO Foundation, Los Angeles, CA.; East Los Angeles Coll., Calif.; Ford Foundation, New York, N.Y.; National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. PUB DATE Ma: 93 NOTE 133p.; Parts of this paper were presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Evaluation Association (Washington, DC, October 18-20, 1990), the California Educational Research Association (San Diego, CA, November 1990), the American Evaluation Association (Seattle, WA, November 5-7, 1992), and the California Educational Research Association Conference (San Francisco, CA, November 1992). PUB TYPE Guides Classroom Use Teaching Guides (For Teacher) (052) Reports Research/Technical (143) Tests/Evaluation instruments (160) EDRS PRICE MFOI/PC06 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Academic Achievement; Curriculum F.aluation; Educationally Disadvantaged; High SC-ools; *High School Students; *Hispanic Americans; Instructional Materials; Interviews; *Mathematics Instruction; Minority Group Children; Program Descriptions; Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance; Student Motivation; Teaching Guides; Teaching Methods; Urban Education IDENTIFIERS *Escalante Jaime; Jaime Escalante Math Program; *Los Angeles City Schools CA ABSTRACT This instructional guide, or.e product ofa large -scale research project on Jaime Escalante and his Mathematics and Science Program, describes the teaching and motivatingstrategies that he uses to bring about high academic achievementamong poor minority urban youth in Los Angeles (California). The firstpart of five describes a pilot test in whicha colleague and an administrator who have worked with and observed Escalante rateda list of successful techniques according to the degree to which they explained Escalante's teaching success.
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