Notes

Stand and Deliver

James Garfield East LA

Effective teaching: Is very passionate towards teaching and his students:
Mr. Escalante went to the extreme of visiting a student’s parent when she quit school. I think her name was Ana. He went there to encourage the parents to please let her come back to school. He believed she had a lot of potential. The parent wanted her to work in the restaurant that the family owned. The parent was offended at first but did come around.  Also at dinner his wife explains to their children that he stays after school to help teach the kids for no pay. Also MR. Ecalante explains to his neighbor that he chose to teach and was not forced to teach.

 He speaks the native language of the students.  He is not foreign to the students and puts up a complex of wanting the students to strive for a higher education.  

He cuts the apples into sections, ½. ¼. It worked it got their attention and they soon enjoyed coming to his class because they were learning and he was someone who believed in them. Escalante used real life scenarios to solve math equations. For example, Lupe has 3 girlfriends, Javier has 2 more girlfriends than Angelo, how many girlfriends does Jesus have?

 
A great scene of persistence is when  Mr. Escalante dedicated 24 consecutive hours to his students to help them prepare for the test, when in real life most teachers would not be this willing to dedicate as much time. Also when he openly defends his students against the two school interrogators. At first he was patient with the testing board interrogators, but slowly looses it, at one point threatening to kick their ass the testing board interrogators continue to refuse and deny him an opportunity to see the test even though the test was finished and there was nothing he could have done to change the scores.      

Bad Teaching: Is too harsh at times, this could cause students to drop out.
One of the Girls is having problems at home and dose not have enough time to finish work, Mr. Escalante then pokes fun at her claiming that she has to many boy friends hinting at where she is spending her time not knowing what she actually does. This causes her to leave the class until Mr. Escalante confronts her on her reason why she left.

A through IV

I want to tell the story of my brain and the journey it took to learn hoe to use it. I must tell how it all started, what happened in the middle, what i learned during this experience, and the current situation. I shall use the Malcolm X article as a big reference in my essay. I will include a story and a way of explaining what i am writing about. I shall focus on the learning journey i took on the way to having the brain i do now. That includes all of the influences and advise i have gotten. How i tell it. 

What I would like people to get form reading my essay!

My educational narrative follows me through three events that happened during three different times in my life. Each experience was different, but the same. The underlying message i wanted people to get from the essay was that even though you do not understand something, it doesn't mean that you can not learn from it of how to uses it.  

British Man In Suit talks About School Thing while making bad jokes that I do not like X(

He has jeans, a grey under shirt, a grey long sleeved dress shirt, and a black over coat... I think he may like dark colors. I do not like his jokes. He is mean, I do not like him. He looks to the future of the children of the world. He explains that kids are smart. He fakes an ending for comedy... not funny. Some kids have a funny seance of humor. He makes a Mail Gibson joke... not funny. I do not believe his story about his son, it is a lie. I do not get the joke he just made. Kids will take a chance, i did that all the time. I do not agree with him. I like being wrong. where is Stratford Avon, why would you move to LA. This guy is not smart... hahaha he is not funny. Again why would you move from England to LA. He explains how his sons first girlfriend was a bad person. It is pronounced America not "Merica".  I like the thought of having dance not math. I do not care that you used to be a university professor , your not one anymore. Another joke i do not find amusing. I have lost all care for this video. He gives a good explanation on how our school system is not letting us learn the right way. I agree with his thoughts on intelligence. He insults his wife's cooking and leaves an innuendo as to what she is "good for", this guy is a jerk. I do not care about your book, you are a jerk and I don't wont to learn about how you do it. He claims the he is friends the person who helped make and choreographed "Cats", now I do not just dislike him, he scares me as well. Why is there a shirt on a pedestal  in the background? The ending of this video was about the environment... this has been the most unfunny almost stupidly random video i have seen in a long time. The only saving feature about this video is that the British man in dark colors had some good points.

Learning Counscious

The mind is a wonderful mysterious thing that has some parts of it that we may never find nor completely understand. But despite all the mystery behind the human psyche there are a few parts of it that we do understand why they are there and what they are used for. One such part is the human conscious, the little and in the back of our heads that tells us right from wrong. I have had the amazing educational journey of finding out and learning how to use it. It starts in us all when we first begin to grasp what is god or bad, and we begin to better learn how to judge our actions better. Without my conscious I believe that I would be reduced to an inhuman animal only living off instincts there by turning myself into a monster. Needless to say I am happy that I have a conscious and that I have have learned how to use it properly to shape me into the person I am today.   

When we are born we only have a base knowledge on what happens around us, it isn’t until later in life that we begin to understand the concept of right from wrong. For me this new found understanding would come in the shape of guilt. When I would do something bad I would feel guilty about it and wonder why I felt so bad for doing it. One such case would be when I called one of my fellow kindergarten mates a mean name, I knew that saying the word was wrong and should not be used but I decided that I would use it any way. It would take a few seconds for my little child mind to somewhat comprehend what I had done, but when it hit me that what I said was wrong and mean I immediately found my friend and apologized. After this event I sat down and felt a brief sense of satisfaction, like I had done something good. From this I would learn that certain feelings would come from the actions I chose, I could be the “Good Guy” and feel great about what I had done, or I could be the “Bad Guy” and feel bad and horrible about what I did. These feelings would teach me how to better choose what path or choice to take. This would be the start of how I would learn how to use my conscious        it would also lead to me becoming what I am today. The feeling of feeling god will find its way into my mind more and more as I began to comprehend my actions as I got older, but as the feeling of satisfaction would continue to grow, so would the feeling of disappointment when I would do something bad. As time would go on more and more things about my conscious would become more and more clearer to me, there would come the time when I would have to learn to choose from being right or wrong, when I would have to choose between being righteous or being cynical. One day this idea of choosing would come in the form of how I would spend my money for during Christmas time. I had just received my paycheck from the newspaper office and headed down to the store to buy things for presents, the problem was that I saw a new game that I caught my eye but knew I would not have enough money to buy it and get all the gifts that I wanted to get for my family. I was stuck between what I thought at the time to be a rock and a hard place. I could buy myself that video game and be happy, or I could buy all the presents I wanted to get my family. Looking back I took longer to make my decision than I would have preferred, the right choice being to buy gifts for my family, but the outcome was satisfactory. I decided it would be better for my whole family to be happy than just me, so I bought the gifts for the family. Needless to say when all was said and done I was happy with my decision, I still wanted that video game though.

AS life would go on and on more and more choices like this one would show up and I would deal with them as each one presented itself. Sometimes I would make the right choice, other times I would choose the obvious wrong choice and regret that I had been week and chose to be wrong that being right. With all of these choices I would learn more and more about how to better use my conscious and how learning to use it would help me learn who I really am, I am a nice guy who strives to make all of the right choices and at times can get blinded and frustrated with the choices I make. It is funny to think that learning something would come in the form of learning how to use something we can fully comprehend but then again there are a lot of things we do not understand as human beings and that the few things that we do understand we learn how to better use them and the things that we learn shape who we turn into as people and dictate the actions and choices we take every day. And with those choices we shape the world into the world we live in. I am happy to have learned how to use my conscious and how I learned to dictate what is right and what is wrong, and at the end of the day I can go to sleep easy that through my life and what I have learned of my conscious, that I make good decisions and that I am a good person not a crazed inhuman evil animalistic being that works off of pure animal instinct alone.

How I Learnded to Learn

The proses I took for learning how to learn is an educational journey that was started a few days after I was born. Simple things such as what to do when I got hungry or when I needed for my dipper to be changed, for this I learned that I alone could not do it so my own so my response would be to get the attention of the person that was taking care of me, I would do this by crying. From then on I would grow and learn my name from hearing it a thousand times by my parents and the people around me. Shortly after this I would begin to learn how to speak by trying to imitate the things that was being said around me, my first word was “no”, as a baby I learned that whenever I would say this simple word it would surprise the people I saw from day to day and it would get me what I wanted. As time went by other achievements happened along the way, such as the ability to walk which got me from place to place, again I would learn this by trying to imitate the people around me then trying it out for myself until I got it right. So the learning proses I would take would simply be the proses of doing the something over and over and over again until I got it right. This simple recollection I had from being able to mimic and practice what I saw until I got it right is what got me the ability to learn how to learn, needless to say I am looking forward to learning more and more new things.

“How I learned to love travelling solo” written by Cate Huston, commented on by Paul Bradley

“How I learned to love traveling solo” by Cate Huston is, like the title suggests, a narrative of how Cate Huston Learned to travel by herself. It starts out just like the other educational narratives we have read and written about so far a person who wants to learn something new based off of something that they have done in their life or connected to what they do every day. In the case of Cate she travels a lot and before she decided to travel by herself she always traveled with a group. She decided one day that she would break away from traveling in a group and decided to be more independent. This same idea of breaking away from something you are used to is much like Joshua J Romero “How I learned to live Google free” except where he got away from an internet browser, Cate Huston lived and breathed a new way of looking at the world, literally. The entire article can compare to en educational narrative simply due to the fact that it is an article that explains something the author learned and how they turned that into the most important thing they had ever learned and wrote about their experience. The only difference from this article from the other ones we have read is the content, which is about traveling, and the tone which is upbeat, happy, and not serious for the most part.