Joe Clark Lean On Me Techniques

Rita Pierson has discovered a way to incorporate positive reinforcement without setting her students up to fail. During her speech, she offers personal experience to help support her theory that acknowledging the correct answers over incorrect answer can lead to confidence building in a pupil’s self-esteem and creating a trustful human connection with the student. Rita offers a comfortable and wisdom providing argument wrapped in a presentation that shows passion for how teachers and student relationship should be. Her over all demeanor has the audience listening, learning and engaging as she shares her beliefs with a passionate smile on her face. To top off the speech she adds some comedic relief that encourages the connections with her listeners. The room was set in a lecture classroom like setting with Rita being highlighted. Everyone looking down at Rita as she presents her argument about human connections and positive criticism in today’s classrooms.

Yelling, name calling and humiliation, these are just some of the things that Joe Clark had done to transform teachers who were once looked down upon by students to people that they now look up to. Through harsh methods Joe Clark was able to change teacher that once had no control over their students to people who are now looked up to, but in-order to change them he had to do more than just give them respect they had to earn it and work hard to earn it by changing how they behaved with their students. From the evidence shown it can be said that Joe Clark like his teachers to act quickly and on command thus preparing them to act quickly without notification if something were to happen in the school that would require their immediate attention. From one of Joe Clark’s quotes he states that, “Discipline establishes the format, the environment for academic achievement to occur”, meaning that without a firm hand of authority in a high position of a school, teachers will not act to their full potential because they will feel

The lesson begins with the Teacher using a remote to click through a series of scenes taking place between the Jumper and Good Samaritan, with the plot not turning out as one would expect. The first scene shown lacks conflict and does not allow for further plot; therefore the Teacher explains that this is not satisfying to the audience. The second scene also lacks conflict, by resolving too quickly, and the third scene is absurd with both characters using unnecessarily foul language that does not appeal to any kind of viewer. As the Teacher clicks through several more poorly constructed scenes the other two characters come to life and revolt which causes the Teacher to lose control. The true comedic events ensue when the Teacher battles with the other characters in order to regain control over the play. Surprisingly the Teacher is the one who becomes the victim to death, thereby creating an example of a well written play.

White sets the tone for the piece by informing the audience of his “increasing admiration for the teacher in the country school.” This simple beginning statement puts a positive image of country schools into the readers’ minds without too harshly pushing his opinion upon them, which could in turn, result in alienation of the audience. By using this technique, White is able to begin to persuade readers without them even realizing

Imagine trying to fix a failing school rife with drugs, crime, violence, and failing grades. Some of the students can’t even read, and most will end up dropping out. That is what the film Lean on Me is about. A former teacher at a high school, Joe Clark, is told to go and fix Eastside High, where more than half the students do not even meet basic skills, or the state will take over the school. When he takes over, he immediately begins several changes, imposing strict authority in the halls, improving the quality of education, and expelling drug dealers or failing students. Clark also many times encourages students and staff that hard work are needed for success. In Lean on me, Joe Clark persuades the student and staff to work hard using ethos, pathos, and logos.

Pathos, out of the three rhetoricals, is used the most throughout the film by Joe Clark. He uses it a plenty among almost all of his speeches to his students and his staff, and it's even found when he’s talking to his superiors. The one of the beginning appearances of pathos is when he speaks to the auditorium of students on his first day. He mentions that their mascot is the Eastside Ghosts, and that they will rise like ghosts do from the grave. It meant to be an encouraging and empowering speech, the first of many from Joe Clark. The second instance is when he is in the gymnasium with the entire staff of Eastside High. He demands everyone put both hands up, and when hes done battering them for their failure to educate their students, he says, “Because you are failing to educate them, this is the posture our students will wind up in, only they’ll be staring down the barrel of a gun!”. This is a speech to insert guilt upon the staff members for not giving these students the help they knew they needed, and Clark makes it very clear he wants more from his staff than most principles. Last but not least, just before the final exam, Clark asks for his “white children” to stand up. He does this as a way to show that, “They’ve got no place to go. If they had, they would have abandoned us a long time ago like everybody else did, but they couldn’t, so here they are at East Side High, just like the rest of us,” as said by Clark himself.

There were many diverse aspects to this book. Most of this book is a recall from either the main character, or one of his students. This book is intended to open people’s eyes to see that in order to change the world we must first change ourselves. Being able to go through this story and see the mistakes, and the good decisions, teachers in Michie’s life have made, has taught me that the best way to teach is through love, justice, cultural empathy and imagination. Some of the points brought up in this book include the positive and negative sides of physical contact with a student, classification/stereotyping, race, gangs, police brutality/lack of justice, and children not being able to escape peer pressure.

Joe Clark used harsh and unconventional methods when dealing with problems associated within the school. Joe Clark does not listen to what others have to say and follows his own heart. Some might say that Joe Clark’s ways were harsh by stating that he fired

In the text, “A Talk to Teachers,” Baldwin emphasizes that as this is enlightened by utilizing tone, mood, and pathos. Baldwin applies tone in order to illustrate that people should take charge in educating the children in order to support his claim that a student should choose what path to take in his or her life. He reveals anger by stating, “They really hate you - really hate you…”. Basically, he started to show that society tend to teach students that they are hated by many. This feeling of anger supports Baldwin’s claim by getting the audience to feel a need to help the children be educated to right way; to allow a student to decide for himself on what he wants to do with his life.

Eisenhower High School has shaped me into the women that I am today. At first, the transfer from private to public middle school was difficult. I did not know what to expect from public schooling. Immediately, I was met with friendly faces and extraordinary teachers. When the time came for me to decide if I would attend a private high school or Eisenhower High School I didn’t hesitate on my decision. Since my first day walking through the newly renovated Eisenhower halls, I knew I had found my home for the next four years.

Mr. Escalante pushes his students to overcome great encounters. Stand and Deliver highlights the realities of stakes testing. Students throughout the U.S. are required to take standardized tests. Standardized testing is a controversial issue still today. These tests are used to indicate the average level a student is academically. The problem is, these tests are not accurate at all. The work Mr. Escalante did with his students is relative to today’s educators and their students. Mr. Escalante did more than provide a strong base of academics. He broke down walls they seemed permanent. Adapting to each child’s needs. Getting to know each students and

Students fought daily. A student was stabbed and was carried out on a stretcher and one girl’s blouse was ripped off. Students in the auditorium were smoking and passing drugs around in the presence of the teachers and the principal. The student crowd was like a night club and no one listened to or respected authority figures. The mode of the school was dangerous and chaotic. There was no order. Furthermore, there were students who had been there for five continuous years on the stage. Those kids were bad influences to the entire student body. Consequently, Dr. Clark expelled them because he had to show those young men and the entire school that their conduct was no longer tolerated. He told the remaining students that if they did not succeed, they could blame no one but themselves. They were there to learn, the alternative was to waste their time and they would fall into crime, death and poverty. Although, Dr. Clark faced many challenges in the school, he never gave up. He believed in his heart that he could change the school’s culture and he did. He was diligent and persevered until his goal was accomplished. My thoughts are if Dr. Clark can change an out of order school society, then I can make a difference in the classroom as well, however, the conditions I face as a substitute are trivial and minute in comparison to the environment in which Dr. Clark

Cronin faced a gargantuan task. He wanted to bring equity to one school in the district that needed significant upgrades in order to align with the other schools in the district. The school was located in a lower socioeconomic area of the district and served African-American, Latino, and white working-class families. Several former superintendents orchestrated initiatives to build a new school in this area, but all attempts failed. This problem was certainly political. The residents of areas served by the school had little political influence. Furthermore, those opposed to the initiative used scare tactics to discourage voters from supporting the plan. Cronin decided to take a stand and made a very powerful statement. He stated he wanted his superintendency to be measured by this ability to turn the Kennedy School around. Cronin’s focus went much farther than simply building a new facility. He wanted equity for the students who attended the school. As expected, Cronin met vehement opposition, including the Parent-Teacher Organization of Clayton. Cronin took the challenge seriously and set out to educate the public on the need for the school. He even took elderly citizens in the community to the Kennedy School so they could see first hand the need for a new

East Side High started as just an ordinary inner city school that was changed over time because greed and power was more important than student and school success. Over the next twenty years the school becomes ravaged by the gangs and drug dealers that

“Dead Poet’s Society” was a film which centered around a group of students whom were unhappy with their education, even though they attended the “best prep school in America.” Most of the students were controlled in one way or another when it came to their education and life as a whole. Over the course of the movie, the boys gradually opened up and their personalities shined through as the seemingly unusual, replacement English teacher began to change their opinion on learning. Although Mr. Keating’s approach was very different from what the students were used to, he came to have a substantial impact on their lives. After analyzing many aspects of the students, teachers, and education as a whole, it can easily be determined that the movie’s main goal was to display the importance of transitioning from the mandated teacher-centered approach to open minded student-centered classroom in the years to follow. By the end of the movie, the students realized that they were entitled to their own opinion and could have a voice, in spite of the administration’s liking, when it came to their education.