Mona Lisa Smile Notes

• the era takes place in the fall of 1953
• open with a girl typing about a teacher named Cathrine Watson
• art history teacher
• to work in conservative college
• Cathrine wanted to make a difference
• heavily religious
• school for girls
• cathrine doesn't choose to live in campus
• girls are very snooty and know-it-alls
• they have all been to the class before

Simularities between Rose and Black

Rose and Black Also Disagree about the Following:

• Rose supports and wants children to have more creativity
• Black Wants Parents. Teachers, and all educators to be more accountable for the students learning
• Rose comes up with a ways to improve our systems
• Black pokes fun at the people who should be improving our system.

Rose and Black agree on most things involving the education system, they both agree that:

• the education system has to many politics involved.
• Learning isn't the number one priority.
• people who do not have any educational backgrounds hold major position on boards.
• The system holds back on giving students that best teachers.

Both Rose and Black make great points about our flawed System and great points about how it can be fixed.

Education Arguement (Final)

Education is one of the most fundamental staples in life. Education starts at birth, you never stop learning; but your education really starts at age five. In school you learn how to read, write, arithmetic, science, and history. The United States education system has some serious problems. There are many changes that could be made, like a better curriculum, smaller class sizes, and more accountability. These changes would make momentous changes for our children. One change that could propose is to start teaching children young, very young, as young as six months of age, By proposing that the education systems starts introducing sign language to all children.

In the Banking concept of Education, Friere states “instead of communicating the teacher issues a Communiques and makes the deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat”. This statement reflects the potential for early learning. Children learn by example, it’s the term monkey see monkey do, except these aren’t monkey, these are children. In early development infants start to pick things up faster, they can absorb knowledge and after repetitive actions they will soon demonstrate the actions being taught. Soon after that children will start to understand what they are doing and the process of learning has begun. There is a spark in the eye of a child once they have learned something new. After learning one thing they continue on. Children learn from our actions, they want to speak how adults speak, walk how adults walk, and act the they adults act

In preschool children learn the alphabet, to count, to match colors, and shapes. They learn words and how to use them. There should be education before preschool, when a child hits preschool they are already behind, most children have not been socialized with other children, they are slow to learn and interact. We should have earlier head start programs that teach our young children sign language to start forming communication skills, the benefits are outstanding. Children are more susceptible to learning and retaining knowledge when you start teaching them before they can talk. Children who learn sign at an early age show that they can understand more when they develop into toddlers and more when they reach adolescence. Teaching six month old infants how to communicate makes their brains functions just a little faster in the long run. Children need knowledge to grow, they are on a quest to find it every time they ask a question or commit an act, they are finding out how to act. Children are constantly doing things that are either good or bad to have an adult teach them the difference between both. Having a child who can’t talk and can’t walk communicate with you about what, who, when, and where at the age would be form there verbal thoughts later.

The benefits of sign language are outstanding, it develops communication skills, observational learning, and making it easier to take in more learning early communication and reading, learning comprehension would be higher in K-12 schools. Sign also can help with developing motor skills, seeing, touching, all around learning. Education starts at home, when you are learning to crawl, talk, and walk, we are already being prepped for a life full of institution. As hooks said “As teachers, we can create a climate for optimal learning if we understand the level of emotional awareness and emotional intelligence in the classroom.” By entering a head start program to the education system it can give children more opportunity to learn more and comprehend faster.

Gatto makes a great statement “The reason given for the enormous upheaval of family life and cultural traditions was, roughly speaking, threefold: 1) to make better people 2) to make good citizens. 3) To make each person his or her personal best.” Why not teach children another language? Teaching children sign would open the mind to more opportunity. Du Bois stated “best end to have in view”. That is what parents and educators want for children in the best end. Who wouldn’t want to open up all these super opportunities? Education strives to teach children critical thinking making them understand what it is that they want, learn, and need. As Curtis Acosta said “our students are critical thinkers, we provide the soil for them to grow in. we nurture them.” Education is the foundation for the children of America to learn and achieve greatness.

What a better way to start out a child’s life than to be able to communicate without talking. Knowing how to ask for things, making decisions, telling you what is wrong. Making these changes could help each child’s overall educational experience a little more easily. Being able to take in more knowledge and learn easier would improve all of the children’s school experiences. As Hooks said “A radicle commitment to openness maintains the integrity of the critical thinking process and its central role in education. This commitment requires much courage and imagination.” Let’s take that commitment to children and start early by keeping their brain working, the child’s brain is slower when it is not learning, those early months are crucial to the brains development. Keeping the brain occupied keeps the sells growing, neurons moving, neuro networks sparking. The human brain can do wonders, all the memories it can hold, all the things you can learn and retain.

Teaching sign language to children before they can talk helps them later in life. Children who have learned sign tend to have better grades, better reading ability, and impeccably better reading comprehension. It would give children a better chance in school learning new things faster and retaining them easier and holding them longer. These thing will come in handy when the child become an adult, making retaining new information and still knowing it when they need it later in life. Its about keeping the brain sharpened like a pencil the more use the more you need to sharpen, the less use the duller the pencil gets, this is the very same for the brain. You never know one day the child may learn other languages, but knowing sign is handy in many ways as an adult. You can use it almost anywhere, at work, in college, even make a career out of it.

In closing there are many changes that can be made to the education system, you can argue each and every one from Classroom overcrowding, to taking away standardized testing. Each change would make a huge difference. In the end adding sign would make a huge impact on the way that all children learn. Teaching small children communication at six months would improve a lot of the learning curves today. Children are more susceptible to learning and retaining knowledge when you start teaching them before they can talk. Yes teaching sign wouldn’t fix the problems that America has in the education system but it would sure improve the way that a child learns and develops. children will have a higher reading comprehension, vocabulary, differentiate between right and wrong when they hit kindergarten Each child deserves a quality education why not give them some help in the begging so they have a head start in learning new things.

 

 

Gatto, John Taylor, “Against school”, http://www.wesjones.com/gatto1.htm

Friere, Peole “The Banking Concept of Education” from Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1970. – Chapter 2,

Hooks, Bell “Practical Wisdom, Teaching Critical- Thinking Teaching 1”

Aronson, Deb “Arizona Bans Mexican American Studies Program: “it was never about what we were doing, it was about who we are”. National Council of teachers English, September 2012

Gilyard, Keith “Children, Arts, and Du Bois” Presidents Commentary, National Council of teachers English, September 2012

Black, Rose, Gatto and Freire/Chalk (Group Exercise)

1.       In Pedagogy of the oppressed, chapter 2, the banking concept: This process was presented quite often through the movie. One example occurred in the middle of the school year. Mr. Lowery had the students repeat everything on the board until they memorized it. This is similar to the statement in the third paragraph “The student records, memorizes, and repeats these phrases without perceiving what four times four really means, or realizing the true significance…..”. Mr. Lowery lacked experience and passion; therefore, he was not able to teach the students. He talked at them. He did not engage his students in the conversation or topic.

 

2.       In one scene a student was a few seconds late and the teacher did not discipline him for this action. Coach Webb is very controlling and felt that everyone should follow the rules. She felt her students needed to know yoga and she was also the hall monitor and felt that the teachers were setting a bad example and should follow the rules. I thought it connected with the Gatto's "The reason for school" a)To make good people. b) To make good citizens. c) To make each person his or her personal best.

 

3.       In Mike Rose’s Resolutions on Education, his number one resolution states “to have more young people get an engaging and challenging education”. Our example is the first day of school in Mr. Lowery’s class he writes his name on the board and he calls on a student to state his name and asked what is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of history. The students sit blankly with no response.

 

4.       In Education in America, Black referred to the Kennedy school in L.A. They spent 580 million dollars on a new school with manicured lawns, swimming pool and more. In the movie Chalk there was a scene where they had a meeting to discuss finance’s but no discussion of students or other challenges at the school.

 

Selina Ayers, Mandy Kennedy, Ryan VanOrt, and Brittany Dumford

Education Argument (Rough Draft)

Education

 

Education is one of the most fundamental staples in life. Education starts at birth, you never stop learning; but your education really starts at age five. In school you learn how to read, write, arithmetic, science, and history. If you are good at one or all subjects you advance into higher classes, but if you are not good at any of the courses you just float through school not understanding or grasping the knowledge. Educators are supposed to educate you and make you understand, but with the classes overcrowding and standards being generalized there are many students being depraved of a quality education. In the United States has a very poor educational system. States officials elect people to boards who run lower boards and those boards are over the superintendents who are over the principles and the line continues all the way down to the parents of students. Who do you blame for the issues within your state, county, or district? Who is going to make changes to education? Who is going to stand up and hold all accountable for the low grades and school success rates? And last who is going to change the system to benefit the student not the test scores? Even though those are great but the best question is what could we do about it? To stop the accountability train long enough to define what we mean by “Achievement” (The answer Sheet: “Mike Rose’s Resolutions on Education”, http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/guest-bloggers/some-2011-resolutions-someone.html). Mike Rose asks all of these questions, and they are agreeable. What is it going to take to make changes to benefit the students? The answer is that all are accountable and all need to start making changes to correct the educations injustices to students.

 

These are changes that can be made, small changes like the way students are taught on one curriculum and tested on another, abolish standardized tests. Teach students how to succeed in life not just school. Fewer students per classroom and more one on one learning. Take more focus on students and less on the money. These are just some things that our education boards need to focus on. When did education become this destructive mess? Most people will agree that it has been a mess since its creation and some may feel it’s the changing of time. We need to focus on the current and less on the past.

 

Education starts at home, when you are learning to crawl, talk, and walk, we are already being prepped for a life full of institution. Society is to blame for some problems in the education system, like if your child is hyper they may have a learning disability, or if your child is a slow learner they also may have a learning disability. As soon as children are labeled with these brands of ADD, OCD, a form of Autism, Dyslexia, Etc. the system automatically rules them out. “These kids slow down the class” as teachers tell parents and advise them to look at other alternative learning. This is where smaller classrooms come in handy, stop throwing these labeled students into special education classes that do not teach them at the class level they are. Educators grow intolerant of student behavior and ignore the signs for help. As teachers, we can create a climate for optimal learning if we understand the level of emotional awareness and emotional intelligence in the classroom (Bell Hook’s Engaged Pedagogy, Teaching Critical Thinking Teaching 3). this is another change that needs to happen. Stop labeling students and start reinforcing there esteem. 

 

In preschool children learn the alphabet, to count, to match colors, and shapes. They learn words and how to use them. There should be education before preschool, when a child hits preschool they are already behind, most children have not been socialized with other children, they are slow to learn and interact. We should have earlier head start programs that teach our young children sign language to start forming communication skills, the benefits are outstanding. Children are more susceptible to learning and retaining knowledge when you start teaching them before they can talk.

 

Parents should be held accountable to for their children; it is their responsibility to teach them as well as teachers. Teachers cannot do it all. The reason given for the enormous upheaval of family life and cultural traditions was, roughly speaking, threefold: 1) to make better people 2) to make good citizens. 3) To make each person his or her personal best. (Against school, by john Taylor Gatto. http://www.wesjones.com/gatto1.htm). If parents would get involved with their children’s education starting at a young age, children will have a higher reading comprehension, vocabulary, differentiate between right and wrong when they hit kindergarten, most students who have their parents involved, tend to have at least two grades higher reading levels, better test scores, and better attitudes. If schools and educators pushed the issue of early communication and reading, learning comprehension would be higher in K-12 schools.

 

Education is just that EDUCATION; schools should be able to fulfill their dreams of fully educating the classes for life. Standardized tests set all students up to fail, there is no such test that can be accurate for each learner, why would we do this? Why would we make our children take tests that they are no way prepared for? Awe, yes because the schools need money, they higher the scores the more money the school receives. But what is that showing the students who cannot perform the standards of the test? In what other profession do we use a single metric to judge goodness? (The answer Sheet: “Mike Rose’s Resolutions on Education”, http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/guest-bloggers/some-2011-resolutions-someone.html). There is no other profession that would be an unfair advantage. We are showing them that according to these tests, they are not up to par and breaking their esteem. Making students perform at a “standard level” is what is crippling the education system, tests should not be a make or break situation.

 

 Grading the work is not creating potential, it is killing it. Students get graded on assignments, work, tests, and behavior. But what really happens when the grades are given? If a student is failing and warned about their work what happens next? Educator should be paying more attention. Teachers find it menial help students understand the curriculum, example: Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat. (“The Banking Concept of Education” from Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Chapter 2, by Peole Friere, 1970).Why is that student failing? Why do they not understand? These are the questions that the parents, teachers, and school counselors should be asking and getting answers, not looking past the issues. Education should be looking into the creativity of a child finding their strengths, and focus on strengthening the weaknesses.

 

In our schools we should be teaching about life, how to bank, how to fill out applications, how to do taxes, how to manage money, sexual education, how protect yourself after high school. We should not have to rely on the parents alone to teach their children about life, because they also don’t have the answers. When a student graduate’s high school the education system is pushing them into a world they have never had to experience before. Most students won’t have a job, won’t go to college, and won’t have a car. Wouldn’t you want them to be a bit more established leaving high school? Knowing how to get a job or fill out a college application knowing what you need to do before you can buy a car or sign an apartment lease. Our education system should prepare students for life. These are life goals that go with education. Accomplishing all of these and graduating high school bring more hope for a young person’s future. How do we allow our teachers to teach the things that would make a better life for students and society? A radicle commitment to openness maintains the integrity of the critical thinking process and its central role in education. This commitment requires much courage and imagination. (Bell Hook’s Practical Wisdom, Teaching Critical Thinking Teaching 1).  The education system should have the courage to stand up and teach the students about life during and after graduation.

 

Society today puts a lot of pressure on the education system. It blames the schools for the bad apples and the welfare cases. But it’s not the schools fault. Schools and teachers can’t control how someone grows up, but they can try and make it a better place through learning. Society complains about the school system but never follow through with taking an initiative to fixing the schools problems as Lewis Black roughly we spend more time on how a school is built or what types of fixtures we have but it’s about the quality of education that the child receives. (Dailey Show: Back in Black: Education Crisis, Lewis Black. http://politicsisstupid.com/link/223041)

It’s time that society figure out that it takes a village to raise a child, and with all the influences today we have to keep our kids aware of the outside world and making sure they get the knowledge they need to prepare for it. It’s not the schools fault your child is now a teenage parent, but the school can offer sexual education and condoms. It’s also not the schools fault that your child begins drug addiction, but the school can offer drug and alcohol awareness. Blaming the education system for examples like this is not going to fix the problems of society.

 

Technology is one factor in the problems with schools. It is a blessing and a curse. Requiring students to type out papers and do internet research as homework make people feel bad for not being able to afford a computer or internet service. When did penmanship leave the curriculum?  Why is it not important to spell without auto spell check anymore? In the five years the dictionary may be out of print. Writing teaches patients and willingness to learn. We should bring back penmanship as a standard. Technology makes it so easy for students to cheat and cause distraction.

 

Schools should try and eliminate as much of societies reliance on technology and bring focus back to learning, not to Facebook. The education system is broken, it needs to be fixed. We need to find ways to fix it. Making changes to the current situations can have an outstanding effect on how students learn and teachers teach. Schools need to worry less about having the latest and greatest food, or track fields, or cafeterias. They need to focus on making school a better place for learning. Cutting down class sizes and removing standardize tests is a start, but to really fix it is to reevaluate the education structure and redefine what is truly important. It all needs to start at the top each person involved in education needs to be held accountable and bring our education system to a higher standard for the future generations.

 

 

Arguing Education (Rough Draft)

              Education is one of the most fundamental staples in life. Education starts at birth, you never stop learning; but your education really starts at age five. In school you learn how to read, write, arithmetic, science, and history. If you are good at one or all subjects you advance into higher classes, but if you are not good at any of the courses you just float through school not understanding or grasping the knowledge. Educators are supposed to educate you and make you understand, but with the classes overcrowding and standards being generalized there are many students being depraved of a quality education. In the United States has a very poor educational system. States officials elect people to boards who run lower boards and those boards are over the superintendents who are over the principles and the line continues all the way down to the parents of students. Who do you blame for the issues within your state, county, or district? Who is going to make changes to education? Who is going to stand up and hold all accountable for the low grades and school success rates? And last who is going to change the system to benefit the student not the test scores? Even though those are great but the best question is what could we do about it?

 

There are changes that can be made, small changes like the way students are taught on one curriculum and tested on another, abolish standardized tests. Teach students how to succeed in life not just school. Fewer students per classroom and more one on one learning. Take more focus on students and less on the money. These are just some things that our education boards need to focus on. When did education become this destructive mess? Most people will agree that it has been a mess since its creation and some may feel it’s the changing of time. We need to focus on the current and less on the past.

 

Education starts at home, when you are learning to crawl, talk, and walk, we are already being prepped for a life full of institution. Society is to blame for some problems in the education system, like if your child is hyper they may have a learning disability, or if your child is a slow learner they also may have a learning disability. As soon as children are labeled with these brands of ADD, OCD, a form of Autism, Dyslexia, Etc. the system automatically rules them out. “These kids slow down the class” as teachers tell parents and advise them to look at other alternative learning. This is where smaller classrooms come in handy, stop throwing these labeled students into special education classes that do not teach them at the class level they are. Educators grow intolerant of student behavior and ignore the signs for help; this is another change that needs to happen. Stop labeling students and start reinforcing there esteem. 

 

In preschool children learn the alphabet, to count, to match colors, and shapes. They learn words and how to use them. There should be education before preschool, when a child hits preschool they are already behind, most children have not been socialized with other children, they are slow to learn and interact. We should have earlier head start programs that teach our young children sign language to start forming communication skills, the benefits are outstanding. Children are more susceptible to learning and retaining knowledge when you start teaching them before they can talk.

 

Parents should be held accountable to for their children; it is their responsibility to teach them as well as teachers. Teachers cannot do it all. If parents would read to their children starting at a young age, children will have a higher reading comprehension when they hit kindergarten, most students who have been read to, tend to have at least two grades higher reading levels. If schools and educators pushed the issue of early communication and reading, learning comprehension would be higher in K-12 schools.

 

Education is just that EDUCATION; schools should be able to fulfill their dreams of fully educating the classes for life. Standardized tests set all students up to fail, there is no such test that can be accurate for each learner, why would we do this? Why would we make our children take tests that they are no way prepared for? Awe, yes because the schools need money, they higher the scores the more money the school receives. But what is that showing the students who cannot perform the standards of the test? We are showing them that according to these tests, they are not up to par and breaking their esteem. Making students perform at a “standard level” is what is crippling the education system, tests should not be a make or break situation.

 

 Grading the work is not creating potential, it is killing it. Students get graded on assignments, work, tests, and behavior. But what really happens when the grades are given? If a student is failing and warned about their work what happens next? Educator should be paying more attention, why is that student failing? Why do they not understand? These are the questions that the parents, teachers, and school counselors should be asking and getting answers, not looking past the issues. Education should be looking into the creativity of a child finding their strengths, and focus on strengthening the weaknesses.

 

In our schools we should be teaching about life, how to bank, how to fill out applications, how to do taxes, how to manage money, sexual education, how protect yourself after high school. We should not have to rely on the parents alone to teach their children about life, because they also don’t have the answers. When a student graduate’s high school the education system is pushing them into a world they have never had to experience before. Most students won’t have a job, won’t go to college, and won’t have a car. Wouldn’t you want them to be a bit more established leaving high school? Knowing how to get a job or fill out a college application knowing what you need to do before you can buy a car or sign an apartment lease. Our education system should prepare students for life. These are life goals that go with education. Accomplishing all of these and graduating high school bring more hope for a young person’s future.

 

Society today puts a lot of pressure on the education system. It blames the schools for the bad apples and the welfare cases. But it’s not the schools fault. Schools and teachers can’t control how someone grows up, but they can try and make it a better place through learning. It’s not the schools fault your child is now a teenage parent, but the school can offer sexual education and condoms. It’s also not the schools fault that your child begins drug addiction, but the school can offer drug and alcohol awareness. Blaming the education system for examples like this is not going to fix the problems of society.

 

Technology is one factor in the problems with schools. It is a blessing and a curse. Requiring students to type out papers and do internet research as homework make people feel bad for not being able to afford a computer or internet service. When did penmanship leave the curriculum?  Why is it not important to spell without auto spell check anymore? In the five years the dictionary may be out of print. Writing teaches patients and willingness to learn. We should bring back penmanship as a standard. Technology makes it so easy for students to cheat and cause distraction.

 

Schools should try and eliminate as much of societies reliance on technology and bring focus back to learning not to Facebook. The education system is broken, it needs to be fixed. We need to find ways to fix it. Making changes to the current situations can have an outstanding effect on how students learn and teachers teach. Schools need to worry less about having the latest and greatest food, or track fields, or cafeterias. They need to focus on making school a better place for learning. Cutting down class sizes and removing standardize tests is a start, but to really fix it is to reevaluate the education structure and redefine what is truly important. It all needs to start at the top each person involved in education needs to be held accountable and bring our education system to a higher standard for the future generations.

Chalk

Chalk Notes

• Opening Scene shows that the students are not enthused about school
• Mr. Stroope is excited
• Coach Webb is enthusiastic
• Mr. Lowry is not sure what he is doing
• Mrs.Reddell is confused about what she needs to be doing as an AP 
• first day of class Mr. Lowry is having trouble getting to participate and respect
• Mrs. Reddell is a choir teacher who is now the high schools AP
• Mrs. Reddell has no Idea what she is in for
• Mr. Stroope wants to be the most popular teacher, he wants to be all the students friend.
• This is Mr. Lowry's first day ever of teaching
• Mr. Stoope only cares about popularity
• Coach Webb is a little apprehensive and takes school policy and roles very seriously, she feels that her friend will back her up all the way 
• Mr. Stroope has his appraisal and going over his goals and he hasn't created any lesson plans
• Mrs. Reddell does not handle conflicts well, not knowing how to handle the situation
• Coach Webb Constantly thinks about her self
• Mr. Lowry in the class room scene where the students aren't listening and throwing around someone's backpack he is almost losing it
• Mr.Stroope worries about the wrong things.
• Mr. Lowry Cannot get a handle on his students
• Mrs.Reddell is having a hard time adjusting to being an AP, it is taking a toll on her marriage
• The Principle tries to give Mrs.Reddell some very cryptic advice.
• Coach Webb confronts a teacher about the tardy policies and is very aggressive about it.
• Mr. Lowry is not good under pressure and is then ridiculed by his students
•  Coach Webb does not really have a very good outlook on teaching, but she tries to.
• Mr. Lowry is very embarrassed about having to ask for instruction book on classroom managment 
• Coach Webb confronts Mrs. Reddell on her lack of friendship and is very confrontational about it.
• Mr. Stroope confronts students about using big words and about being to smart.
• Mrs. Reddell shows her frustration while chasing after a student by calling him a bastard
• Coach Web during the yoga scene shows a sense of humor
• Mr. Stroope has a lot of over confidence about the election
• Mr. Lowry lost his cool with a student
• Mr. Lowry learns a lot from the students mother
• Mr. Stroope tries to bring the bright side to him losing the election and fails miserably by breaking down in front of his students
• Coach Webb attacks Mrs. Reddell over their friendship and how she feels that Reddell doesn't want to help her.
• Mrs. Reddell feels the pressure of her position
• all the teachers compete in a spelling bee about slang words. having fun with their students
• The Teachers all sit around and talk about their year and making big changes for the next year.
• Mr. Lowry has doubts about returning to teaching
• Mr. Lowry finally connects with his students the last day of class.

Compare and Contrast: Two Educators (Final)

 

Compare and Contrast: Two Educators

 In high school I had two teachers that stood out, one of them was Mrs. Heart, and she was a very enthusiastic and spirited teacher. The other was Mr. Football, he was unmotivated, ill prepared, and frustrating teacher. Mrs. Heart was a wonderful teacher who cared and loved her students; Mr. Football, on the other hand, was also a football coach for the school and only cared about his players. These are two very different teachers and how they interacted with and taught their students. They both exhibited very different characteristics, but both of these teachers are ones that I will always remember. They both went to school and had a passion for what they did. However they both had good teaching habits and bad teaching habits. Mrs. Heart and Mr. Football left me with higher expectations of teaching.

In Mrs. Heart’s classroom there were six large island sized workstations and three large pallets of clay. There were four pottery wheels in the back and a large adjoining room to the left of the class, which was the kiln room that was full of fired pottery. On the first day, she was wearing a giant yellow hat and bright orange coveralls, standing by the desk handing each student a number. She gave each student a number and directed each one towards their assigned seat with that number. All the students piled in, the bell rang meaning the class has begun. She turned to the board and writes her name and the class name on the board. When she finished she turned and said in a loud but welcoming voice good afternoon class I am Mrs. Heart and this is pottery. Mrs. Heart told the class about the numbering system and how the class will need to meet new people, after she went on to tell us about pottery and she was so enthusiastic and passionate about what she was saying, the whole room was captivated. As the semester went on she taught us about pottery and making art, making the art that we liked not what was expected from us. She allowed complete free artistic license with each project we did. She only had simple rules and guidelines for what was needed for the project to be complete, for example if it was a candle stick it needed to hold a candle, or a wall mask it needed to be hung on a wall. She was great about inspiring us to complete our work; if her students struggled they suffered from what she called artistic farts. If her students had an artistic fart she would come to each one who experienced this anomaly and help them find some light. She was a good teacher and a great inspiration to find our creative side. Mrs. Heart loved coming into class, she was always prepared for the day’s assignment. She was fun and charismatic. She was always encouraging; she never wanted her students to struggle with a project. Mrs. Heart made sure we not only learned but that they had fun doing it. Mrs. Heart was bubbly and full of enthusiasm. She felt that we could never fail. Mrs. Heart was a very good teacher, but she was also very strict about class rules and was not easily swayed. She made sure that all her students were accountable for their work. Mrs. Heart had good teaching qualities, she was always on time, always prepared, and motivated on the student’s success in the class.

Mr. Football taught US History, the classroom was located in the senior hallway of the main building. The classroom was moderately sized, full of desks, and the walls were covered with maps, and famous historical figures. There were large windows showing the garden and a very large whiteboard that wrapped around the two connecting walls. The bell rang and all of the class just sat there wondering if we were in the right class, as we sat confused and agitated, Mr. Football finally appeared, he was twenty minutes late and talking on his phone, and he would normally be completely captivated with something other than his class. After a few minutes finally he would speak to the class. On the first day he announced that he did not have a syllabus or a plan for the day’s work, He would always promise to have class assignments ready the next day, but they never happened. This was normal for Mr. Football, He pull out a DVD and put it on the TV for us to watch. It was usually a documentary of ancient Egypt or some movies about WWII. As the class work or movie started, Mr. Football would grab all of the returning football players that happened to be in his class and brought them to the back of the class by his desk. He then precedes to pull-up last year’s highlights and goes over stats and formation with them. As the rest of the week goes on every day is the same. Mr. Football was habitually late, and he would be very vague about class work and homework. Mr. Football seemed passionate about history when he did talk about it but he let his extra duties step in the way. Just Like every day he grabbed the football players and went to the back of the class and watched last week’s game, sometimes the head coach would join him in class and they would have a full on meeting about football. Our homework was always given back late and sometimes not even corrected. Projects were hard to understand and complicated, and he would never really answer your questions about homework. He was a bad teacher, a great football coach but a horrid teacher. Mr. Football was always late for class and unprepared. He never fully explained projects or homework, but expected it to be perfect to his standard. Mr. Football cared more about football than he did his history students. Mr. Football showed very bad teaching qualities, he was always late, never prepared, and not focused.

In conclusion, a good teacher is one who cares and wants their students to learn and succeed in school or another venture. A bad teacher is on who does the bare minimum and leaves their students a minimal understanding of the class subject. Both teachers worked for the same school, and were great teachers but in very different aspects. Mrs. Heart deeply cared about the success of her students while Mr. Football cared deeply about winning the next football game. If Mr. Football gave the same attention to his history class. Mr. Football was a great teacher. These teachers both had enthusiasm, passion, and they both loved their students. It’s just only one of them showed it to their actual class and the other did not. Mrs. Heart was a fun and knowledgeable teacher she loved teaching her students how to create their own art. She was an outstanding teacher. Mr. Football was a horrible teacher, he never answered questions and if he did they did not help. He was always late and ill prepared; it made him seem as if he did not care about his students.

 

Compare and Contrast: Two Educators (edited)

 

Compare and Contrast: Two Educators

When I was in high school I had two teachers that stood out, one of them was Mrs. Heart and the other was Mr. Football. Mrs. Heart was a wonderful teacher who cared and loved her students; Mr. Football on the other hand was also a football coach for the school and only cared about his players. These are two very different teachers and how they interacted with and taught their students. They both exhibited very different characteristics. Both of these teachers are ones that I will always remember. They both went to school and had a passion for what they did. The following paper will point of the good teaching habits and bad teaching habits. In high school I felt that I knew it all and never had to listen, I was seventeen and this was my senior year. This was my year; at the end I was free. I had two teachers that stood out above them all in that year of high school.

Mrs. Heart and Mr. Football left me with higher expectations of teaching, and what I truly needed as a student. I remember the first encounters with both teachers, walking up the road from the main school from the admin building to the arts building on Hostmark Street. It was third period after lunch when I first met Mrs. Heart. In Mrs. Heart’s classroom there were six large island sixed workstations and three large pallets of clay. There were four pottery wheels in the back and a large adjoining room to the left of the class, which was the kiln room that was full of fired pottery. When I walked in, I saw a lady wearing a giant yellow hat and bright orange coveralls, standing by the desk handing each student a number. When I received my number she said that I will find my seat with that number and that will be my home. We all piled in, and then found our new homes. The bell rang meaning the class has begun. She turned to the board and writes her name and the class name on the board. When she finished she turned and said in a loud but welcoming voice good afternoon class I am Mrs. Heart and this is pottery. She went on to tell us about pottery and she was so enthusiastic and passionate about what she was saying, the whole room was captivated. As the semester went on she taught us about pottery and making art, making the art that we liked not what was expected from us. She allowed complete free artistic license with each project we did, the only guideline was it needed to serve the project function, for example if it was a candle stick it needed to hold a candle, or a wall mask it needed to be hung on a wall. She was great about inspiring us to complete our work; if we struggled we suffered from what she called artistic farts. If we had an artistic fart she would come to each one who experienced this anomaly and help us find some light. She was a good teacher and a great inspiration to find our creative bone. Mrs. Heart loved coming into class, she was always prepared for the day’s assignment. She was fun and charismatic. She was always encouraging; she never wanted us to struggle with a project. Mrs. Heart made sure we not only learned but that we had fun doing it. Mrs. Heart was bubbly and full of enthusiasm. She felt that we could never fail, she also was not a push over we were all accountable for our work.

 I met Mr. Football fifth period history class; this class was located in the senior hallway of the main building. My first encounter with Mr. Football was not in high school, it was in junior high. It was a miserable failure, not only had I not realized I had him as a teacher before but he never changed. We walked into class and took a seat; Mr. Football was nowhere to be seen. The bell rang and all of the class just sat there wondering if we even had class. As we sat confused and agitated, Mr. Football finally appeared he was twenty minutes late on the first day of school. To make things worse he did not have a syllabus or a plan for the day’s work. He pulled out a DVD and put it on the TV for us to watch. It was a documentary of ancient Egypt. While he tells us about how he will have a syllabus completed by the following day that now will just watch this documentary and have no homework. As the documentary started I knew what would happen next, and it did. Mr. Football grabbed all of the returning football players that happened to be in his class fifth period and brought them to the back of the class by his desk. He then precedes to pull-up last year’s highlights and goes over stats and formation with them. As the rest of the week goes on every day is the same. But now he actually talked to us for the first fifteen minutes of class or the fifteen minutes after he was  ten minutes late. He would give a rough run through of what he wanted us to do that day or a project that that was due by the end of the week and never fully explain. Mr. Football seemed passionate about history when he did talk about it but he let his extra duties step in the way. Just Like every day he grabbed the football players and went to the back of the class and watched last week’s game, sometimes the head coach would join him in class and they would have a full on meeting about football. Our homework was always given back late and sometimes not even corrected. Projects were hard to understand and complicated, and he would never really answer your questions about homework. Like I said this is the second time I had Mr. Football as a teacher, and nothing about his teaching style changed. He was a bad teacher, a great football coach but a horrid teacher. Mr. Football was always late for class and unprepared. He never fully explained projects or homework, but expected it to be perfect to his standard. Mr. Football cared more about football than he did his history students.

In conclusion both teachers worked for the same school, and were great teachers but in very different aspects. Mrs. Heart deeply cared about the success of her students while Mr. Football cared deeply about winning the next football game. If Mr. Football gave the same attention to his history class I would probably write about what a great teacher he was, or if I was a football player I would write about that. I did not find that he was a great teacher at all for me. These teachers both had enthusiasm, passion, and they both loved their students. It’s just only one of them showed it to their actual class and the other did not. Mrs. Heart was a fun and knowledgeable teacher she loved teaching us how to create our own art. She was in my opinion an outstanding teacher, which is why I chose her for my paper. Mr. Football was a horrible teacher, he never answered questions and if he did they did not help. He was always late and ill prepared; it made him seem as if he did not care about his students.  I hope that you take from this paper is the degree of teaching that works for me. I do not expect all my teachers to wear bright colored clothes or big hats and have funny names for not doing your work, but I do expect my teachers to care about what they are teaching and that their actually succeed.

               

 

Compare and Contrast: Two Educators (Rough Draft)

 

Compare and Contrast: Two Educators

When I was in high school I had two teachers that stood out, one of them was Mrs. Heart and the other was Mr. Football. Mrs. Heart was a wonderful teacher who cared and loved her students, Mr. Football on the other hand was also a football couch for the school and only cared about his players. This compare and contrast paper is about these two very different teachers and how they interacted with and taught their students. I will point out their good characteristics and their flawed ones. Both of these teachers are ones that I will always remember. They both went to school and had a passion for what they did. The following paper will point of the good teaching habits and the bad teaching habits of Mrs. Heart and Mr. Football. In high school I felt that I knew it all and never had to listen, I was seventeen and this was my senior year. This was my year; at the end I was free. I had two teachers that stood out above them all in that year of high school.

Mrs. Heart and Mr. Football, these two teachers left me with higher expectations of teaching, and what I truly needed as a student. I remember the first encounters with both teachers, walking up the road from the main school from the admin building to the arts building on Hostmark Street. It was third period after lunch when I first met Mrs. Heart. In Mrs. Hearts Classroom there were six large island sixed workstations and three large pallets of clay. There were four pottery wheels in the back and a large adjoining room to the left of the class this was the kiln room that was full of fired pottery. When I walked in, I saw a lady wearing a giant yellow hat and bright orange coveralls, she was standing by the desk handing each student a number. When I received my number she said that I will find my seat with that number and that will be my home. We all piled in, and then found our new homes. The bell rang meaning the class has begun. She turns to the board and writes her name and the class name on the board. When she finished she turned and said in a loud but welcoming voice good afternoon class I am Mrs. Heart and this is pottery. She went on to tell us about pottery and she was so enthusiastic and passionate about what she was saying, the whole room was captivated. As the semester went on she taught us about pottery and making art, making the art that we liked not what was expected from us. She allowed complete free artistic license with each project we did, the only guideline was it needed to serve the project function like if it was a candle stick it needed to hold a candle, or a wall mask it needed to be hung on a wall. She was great about inspiring us to complete our work; if we struggled we suffered from what she called artistic farts. If we had an artistic fart she would come to each one who experienced this anomaly and help us find some light. She was a good teacher and a great inspiration to find our creative bone.

Mrs. Heart loved coming into class, she was always prepared for the day’s assignment. She was fun and charismatic.

She was always encouraging, she never wanted us to struggle with a project. Mrs. Heart made sure we not only learned but that we had fun doing it.

Mrs. Heart was bubbly and full of enthusiasm. She felt that we could never fail, she also was not a push over we were all accountable for our work.

 I met Mr. Football fifth period history class; this class was located in the senior hallway of the main building. My first encounter with Mr. Football was not in high school, it was in junior high. It was a miserable failure, not only had I not realized I had him as a teacher before but he never changed. We walked into class and took a seat; Mr. Football was nowhere to be seen. The bell rang and all of the class just sat there wondering if we even had class. As we sat confused and agitated, Mr. Football finally appeared he was Twenty minutes late on the first day of school. To make things worse he did not have a syllabus or a plan for the day’s work (This was fifth period the first day of school). He pulled out a DVD and put it on the TV for us to watch. It was a documentary of ancient Egypt. While he tells us about how he will have a syllabus completed by the following day that now will just watch this documentary and have no homework. As the documentary started I knew what would happen next, and it did. Mr. Football grabbed all of the returning football players that happened to be in his class fifth period and brought them to the back of the class by his desk. He then proceeds to pull-up last year’s highlights and go over stats and formation with them. As the rest of the week goes on every day is the same. But now he actually talked to us for the first fifteen minutes of class or the fifteen minutes after he was  ten minutes late. He would give a rough run through of what he wanted us to do that day or a project that that was due by the end of the week and never fully explain. Mr. Football seemed passionate about history when he did talk about it but he let his extra duties step in the way. Just Like every day he grabbed the football players and went to the back of the class and watched last week’s game, sometimes the head couch would join him in class and they would have a full on meeting about football. Our homework was always given back late and sometimes not even corrected. Projects were hard to understand and complicated, and he would never really answer your questions about homework. Like I said this is the second time I had Mr. Football as a teacher, and nothing about his teaching style changed. He was a bad teacher, a great football couch but a horrid teacher.

Mr. Football was always late for class and unprepared.

He never fully explained projects or homework, but expected it to be perfect to his standard.

Mr. Football cared more about football than he did his history students.

In conclusion both teachers worked for the same school, they both were great teachers but in very different aspects. Mrs. Heart deeply cared about the success of her students while Mr. Football cared deeply about winning the next football game. If Mr. Football gave the same attention to his history class I would probably write about what a great teacher he was, or if I was a football player I would write about that. I did not find that he was a great teacher at all. These teachers both had enthusiasm, both had passion, and they both loved their students. It’s just only one of them showed it to their actual class and the other did not. Mrs. Heart was a fun and knowledgeable teacher she loved teaching us how to create our own art. She was in my opinion an outstanding teacher, which is why I chose her for my paper. Mr. Football was a horrible teacher, he never answered questions and if he did they did not help. He was always late and ill prepared; he did not care about his students. That is why I chose him as a bad teacher in the paper.  I hope that you take from this paper is the degree of teaching that works for me. I do not expect all my teachers to wear bright colored clothes or big hats and have funny names for not doing your work, but I do expect my teachers to care about what they are teaching and that we/I actually succeed.

Stand and Deliver (Part 2) notes

Christmas dinner scene Mr. Escalante is very dedicated to his teaching. while the family suffers

Class room scene Mr. Escalanteworks so much that his health takes a toll.

Class room scene the class room suffers without him as Angle and Pancho fight.

Hospital Mr. Escalante goes against doctor wishes and goes back to teaching.

Teaching scene post hospital Mr. Escalante makes his student study in unconventional situations like standing in a line to answer questions

post Test the education system is investigating the AP Students stating that they cheated on the tests

pre test Mr. Escalantebrought his students closer.

post news of investigation Angel gets destructive after the news of the board investigation

interrogation of student by Dr. Pierson and Dr. Ramirez, Mr. Mallino is not sure about Mr.escalantes class.

during interrogation Angel Stands and makes a joke about the investigation at the expense of the investigators

post investigation everyone at the school thinks that Mr. escalantes class cheated on the test.

post confrontation Mr. Escalanteis starting to think they cheated as well.

Mr. escalante confronts the investigators about the tests and test scores

Mr. escalante pushes the racial issue on the matter of the investigation

the students elect to retake the test with only 24 hours to study

Second paper Homework

We as students spend a maximum of 20 years in school, we go through many teachers this is my perception of Good Teaching vs. Bad Teaching:  A good teacher is one that cares about your education, one that really wants you to succeed. A bad teacher is one who only does the bare minimum, the one who really could care less about your education.  Teaching students is a hard job and only certain people can teach and teach well. But there are the ones who at first loved teaching, but now could care less about the future of his/her students.

 I have had many teachers; most of them have been great teachers. A good teacher is someone who will guide you through your educational life and answer any question you could ever have. one of my favorite teachers was in junior high school, she was the most enthusiastic teacher ever. She would come into class and immediately engage the class in the day’s assignment.

Stand and Deliver

Mr.Escalante was supposed to teach computer science.

He ends up with a problematic math class.

no respect from students

poor attitudes from fellow teachers

uses props and exercises to keep the class engaged.

Gang related Students

Trying to helps students from getting in trouble

makes examples of his students

uses stereotypes to make his points

a failing school

poor expectations of teacher fro their students

believes in his students, works with them to help them achieve their talents

students know about the schools struggles

cares about his students

disapproving/jealous colleges

striving for excellence

treats/retaliation

understands students struggles

frustrated with students

wife is frustrated.

In the beginning scenes Mr. Escalante is a good teaching trying to engage his students using an apple as math problems.  *Good Teaching*

In the same seen two students arrive late and he pushes them to act out. *bad Teaching*

In the fight scene he shows willingness to prevent further harm. *good teaching*

In the same scene uses force to do so. *bad teaching*

In the next class scene he uses students personal live as examples to make examples out of them. *bad teaching*

The same seen he pushes them to answer questions that he knows that they know. *good teaching*



Class Exercise

The first teaching scene where Mr. Escalante appears. The class room has no discipline or control – bad Teaching

Restaurant Scene where Mr. Escalante and Fabiola Escalante (wife) show up to have dinner in the restaurant that one of his students (Ana Delgado) family owns and complains to the father about her schooling – Good/Bad teaching

1^st meeting scene the principle and vice principle are discussing the schools accreditation and the failing test scores. Mr. Escalante speaks up about the students will only achieve the standards you set for them and nothing more. Good Teaching.

2^nd meeting scene Mr. Escalante speaks up again about want the students to learn calculus and strive for higher expectations - Good Teaching

Teaching scene Apples Mr. Escalante begins class buy wearing a costume and cuts apples to use as props for his learning exercise. – Good Teaching

The fight scene where he sees the fight happening outside and stops Angel from Participating – good teaching

Teaching scene where they are actively participating in a math exercise Mr. Escalante uses gigolos and woman as the problem and the makes crude statements about the students – bad teaching

How I Learbed to Draw a Star (Final)

 

My uncle was a very militant person; he joined the navy soon after his eighteenth birthday. He was between 5’10” and 6’ tall, medium build, hair was short and always combed, and he always wore thick coke-bottle glasses. His name was Jack; Uncle Jack was my father’s brother. Uncle Jack was known to all of us little kids as mean uncle Jack, it felt like he never smiled or was happy for that matter, we were always in trouble it seemed.

Uncle Jack was a strict and reserved man, he never had any biological children, but he had 3 step children and fifteen nieces and nephews. I guess now that he adored children because he always had a house full of them. My Uncle Jack would come over every baseball and Football game and watch with my dad. He would be at every birthday party and holiday. That was something he was very good about.  He would watch me and my brothers and our cousins, he would have 3 or more of us at a time. He lived in Indianola tribal housing and had lots of neighbors that all of us knew. When you are tribal you know everyone; mostly because they are all your relatives or close to your family. We usually had a good time at Uncle Jacks, yes we all did get yelled at and even received a whooping for acting out, but mostly a nice time over there. Even though he was strict we really had a lot of childish freedom. We had set times to be back at his house for dinner or lights out; we could watch TV or movies. Some of my favorite memories are the movies that he had for us to watch, and why I have deep appreciation for very unusual or weird things. I and most of my cousins saw a lot of Jim Henson’s work outside of The Muppets; I loved The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and the TV show Dinosaurs. It was at his house I was introduced to these movies and shows that are now my favorites. I also first saw Disney’s Nightmare before Christmas with him and my aunt; this all explains my very different interests in dark movies.     

Now to the good stuff. I was about six years old, it was around November 1997. I was sick, and it was cold outside. I remember that the leaves were changing and falling, the air was brisk and I was HOT! I had about a 104.7 temp and (I have massive ear problems, what a thing to be stuck with) so naturally I had a double ear infection to top off the fever and chills, to put it out there I was miserable! Oddly I remember my dad was the one who was taking me to the doctor, he and my Uncle Jack had made plans to go to either Lowes or Home Depot I cannot recall which, but I was coming too.

My dad had a black two door ford long bed truck, the seat was a bench seat and had two pull down seats in the back. In 1997 having a full back four point harness car seat was not required
(I don’t even think that was a thing back then) like it is today. So there I am in my small booster with a long fat arm trapping me in the seat wedged between my dad and my uncle Jack. We had to go to the doctor’s office which mine was located in Kingston, I remember the drive and the remorse that both my dad and uncle felt for me that day. I could barely hear them talking, my ears were so muffled and plugged that I really could not understand what they even said. It was like the teacher in Peanuts wah, wah, waahh, wahhhh. My dad dressed me that day so of Couse I was wearing my giant purple coat and head to toe thermals, with a pink and purple shirt and matching pants (at least I matched! Even then I was a diva) and my pink furry lined boots. Nothing was going to make me cold wearing all that. Oddly enough this was the only time in my life that I had short hair so he didn’t have to bother with that except I had to have a bow (of course, can you say diva!). It felt as if the drive took forever, but I know that it was twenty minutes or so. When we arrived I was seen very quickly and of course to pour salt on the already smarting wound my father is notorious for asking the doctor “is Brittany up to date on all her shots?” oh yay my dad should get the world’s best dad award. I know that he was always making sure I didn’t need extra doctor visits and un-needed illnesses beyond the common cold or the seasonal flu. After my worry about needles (since I can hear the word needle through doors down) was ceased due to I was all up to date (yay!) I had to endure something else I hated equally. Since the age of three months till now I have had more ear infections than normal I lost count. One thing I cannot stand is ear drops, but having an ear infection as a child you have to endure them. I protested and tried to bite the doctor I was forcibly detained and given liquid hell. Now the tears have subsided and the popping in my ears was to a slowing stop I could finally hear everything. Walking out of the doctor’s office after getting a dose of Tylenol and some antibiotics I was given the green light ride along to the store.

Now we are off to Silverdale to go to the boring store. After about two hours of being pushed around the hardware store looking at everything from twenty different sized screws to new lawn mowers we were finally leaving for home. Once we got to our house my dad was unloading the truck and my uncle had been watching me doodle on the paper my dad had given me at the store he noticed I couldn’t draw a star, even though I made my best efforts as shown on the sad piece of paper. My uncle grabbed the pen and said “would you like to learn how to draw a star?” me of course nodding my head in shame that my miss matched triangles could not cut the rug as a star. He started to draw; he started at one point then continued up to another point and back down, not lifting the pen from the paper. He finished moving the pen up down and side to side, he finished drawing the star.

I grabbed the pen and started tracing the drawing that he had finished and after about four or five tries I had done it, I had successfully drawn a star. From that day on, I have always associated drawing a star with that cold day that my Uncle Jack taught me to draw a star.

What I learned from this experience now that I am old enough to understand who my uncle was, that he was a nice man. Yes he was gruff and rough around the edges, but he was also loving and gentle. Now I know that he did help shape the person I am today, from my passion for the unusual movies and darkness, to drawing stars. I wish he was still here to see how I turned out, and to see how well I can draw a star now.