Stand And Deliver Reflection

Jaime Escalante, the new mathematics teacher at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles, started his job with the determination to change the system and challenge Garfield's students to a higher level of education. Teaching unmotivated adolescent was a challenge for Escalante, but he was able to accomplish his goal. Based on the true story of the real-life Jaime Escalante, Stand and Deliver tells the typical American underdog story, where an inner-city school leaves the shadows and steps into the light.

Imagine you’re in a classroom full of teenagers that don’t want to be there, and are known for being violent and doing illegal activity, and now you’re expected to teach them math. This was the situation of Jaime Escalante. Jaime Escalante took a stand during the 1980s by teaching in a way that helped the students understand that he wanted them to succeed and impacts us today by showing that teacher support can help kids succeed.

According to the 1988 Hollywood film, which Stand and Deliver, which depicted his career as a teacher, Jaime Escalante's passion for teaching and desired success for all students to succeed and surpass to status quo motivated him to organize and establish an advanced mathematics program with a handful of students.1 Because of it, many students at Garfield High School were able to pass the advanced placement calculus test for numerous years. As evidence would show, according to the ETS results, more and more students were successful because of his unorthodox teaching style. Another thing, Escalante could somewhat connect with the student he was teaching. While growing up, his father was an abusive alcoholic and after his father died, to provide for his family and himself, he worked odd jobs until he was 19 years old when he joined the army. After that, he was persuaded by

This movie, The Classroom, which was very interesting to watch, discusses all that goes on in the school system, the good and the bad. But it also shows how things at home can affect the way the student acts during the school day. This movie definitely makes you look at students that act out differently, instead of punishing them maybe we should all look deeper into the issue and find a way for the student to thrive and use school as an outlet.

My time spent in the Clinical setting, so far, has been extremely inciteful as to how to become a better educator in a classroom setting. Through the data I collected I was able to connect Borich’s Seven Variables of learning to the students. By being in the clinical setting for nearly two months, I have been exposed to new ways of thinking when it comes to structuring a classroom and instructing a classroom. Within this reflection you will find out how I would better plan an effective lesson for the pupils in my future classroom. You will also discover what I will do about certain issues in the classroom and how I will address/fix them.

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

The characters in “Stand and Deliver” went through a great deal in this movie and all brought something else to the movie. The star of the movie is Jaime Escalante played by Edward James Olmos. Escalante is the teacher of the students that quits his job with a computer company to teach at Garfield High School. He comes to teach computer science, but the school did not get the computers and he has to teach math. He takes over the math class and expects a great deal of his students and challenges the faculty to allow him to teach Mr. Escalante encounters some opposition to teaching calculus from Mr. Molina, the principal and Raquel Ortega, a teacher. Mr. Molina is the principal of

making Practice-Based Learning work Reflection on PRACTICE A resource commissioned by the Making Practice Based Learning Work project, an educational development project funded through FDTL Phase 4 Project Number 174/02 and produced by staff from the University of Ulster. www.practicebasedlearning.org Author Patricia McClure School of Health Sciences, University of Ulster www.practicebasedlearning.org contents Reflection on Practice 02

This movie that I watched was based on a true story located in Los Angeles, California 1982. It was about a mathematics teacher named Jaime Escalante who was a new teacher teaching at Garfield High School. The area was mainly surrounded by a population of Hispanics and mostly an environment that valued a quick fix over education and learning. Although Jamie was a new teacher in a school with high rebellion, he tried to change the system since many teachers were focused on disciplining their students rather than enforcing academic work. I realized throughout this film that Jamie was a very determined teacher who worked hard to excel in his profession. He was determined to challenge the students to have a higher level of achievement and be able

Stand and Deliver follows an idiosyncratic teacher, Jaime Escalante, and his high school students throughout the course of a few years. Escalante pushes his students to excel in mathematics through the course of a few years, in spite of the low expectations placed on them because of their ethnicity and low socioeconomic status. While they begin with skills far below their grade level, they work their way up to learning calculus and they all pass the AP Calculus Exam. Connections abound between the film and the chapter of Santrock’s (2016) text devoted to achievement, work, and career development.

Today, July 20, 2015 was my first experience with the TeachLivE Lab, mixed-reality teaching. The professor made groups of three students each; our group consisted of the following members: Tori, Kim and myself. For our TeachLivE exercise, and as a collaborate agreement, we chose the class procedure topic “Turning in Papers”.

I thought it was funny when on pg. 284 – 285 that Bessie was saying that there might not be a African American president in a couple of years, and she also believed that there might be even a women president before an African American president. So, today we have an African American president and there hasn’t been a women president yet. Bessie was right about somethings but, I believe that is just a coincidence that this has happened. Sadie was right about Bessie, how she could tell the future, I guess Bessie was just gifted. I think that Bessie would be a great president, in my opinion, she knows what made the country fall and what has helped build it up.

As I began facilitating my scheduled students, a classroom teacher requested I also support non disable students not being serviced in the program including them in minor groups. Overjoyed with this innovative position, I knew instantly this was my calling to be an educator. The love of engagement of the lesson that reflects unambiguous communication between students and their peers, collaboration between teacher and student, motivation from students to students. In addition, I appreciated and accepted my newly found role, becoming euphoric when the Special Education Director employed my services in the summer of 2006. I carefully observed numerous effective and efficient teachers’ model positive curriculum lessons and strategies to students

After revision and revision I perfected my think aloud lesson plan and was very confident going into this lesson and was very pleased with the outcome! I feel as though the students learned from my lesson in many ways. I know they learned from this lesson because they were using sentences with the new words they learned about. They also were telling other friends who did not get to participate in the activity about frogs and the facts they learned! It was awesome!

The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate my understanding of reflection and reflective practice. Reflection means that we learn by thinking about our experiences and seeing them in a different way. (Dewey, 1938) suggested that, ‘we learn by doing and realising what came of what we did’.