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.