Trust in Freedom Writers and Stand and Deliver

In chapter 19 the author mentions Anne Fox Elementary School, a school in Chicago that goes from having a very poor academic performance in the entire school district of 21 other schools to becoming the second highest academically performing school in just a matter of few years. Anne Fox Elementary School is a great example of the magic that can take place when adults really see the full potential in children and take responsibility in making sure that the children's needs are met in terms of academics. Anne Fox Elementary School shows what can really take place when adults truly believe the idea that every child can succeed. By looking at where they were going wrong and targeting those problem areas Anne Fox Elementary School, created a timely, and organized way to make sure the meet their goals. From changing the false belief of I can’t to I can the elementary school really turned

Jaime Escalante was phenomena teacher in Los Angles. He was a successful person in the category of outer and inner success. His outer success were to educate his students to the point that is fun education and to pass the calculus placement test. The inner was that somehow he get through his student that education is the most important thing. He explains the importance of attending college. The reason why he goes out of his way to assist these students because poverty that the school is located at, has a toll on the students. As result, students’ expectation are low. There is one scene were the teachers had a meeting and Jaime says that teachers need to set on high expectation on the students. Students need to have “ganas” in order to succeed but without expectation the students

“Freedom Writers” is a powerful film that is based on a true story about a teacher named Erin Gruwell, who struggles to connect with her students to make them believe that they can succeed in life, and to show them that their lives, experiences, and knowledge is valuable, all while attempting to unify them and to overcome racial segregation and gang violence that is part of their daily lives. Gruwell focuses on introducing the concepts of discipline and obedience in her classroom. She gradually begins to earn their trust and buys them composition books to record their diaries, in which they talk about their experiences of being abused, seeing their friends die, and being evicted; Gruwell refers to the composition books as “The Freedom Writers Diary.”

The first three chapters of the book describe why trust in schools is important, define trust, and give ideas for cultivating trust. Then there are chapters on betrayal, revenge, teachers trusting one another, fostering trust with students and parents, and restoring trust. The final chapter outlines ideas for becoming a trustworthy leader. Appendix A has several surveys on trust. Each survey includes scoring directions and information about reliability and validity.

In Rose’s “I Just Wanna Be Average”, readers can determine from what he says that teachers play an integral role in the educations of students. When others are teaching you what to do, it becomes easier to understand; when others are not teaching you, it becomes harder to understand. You can tell how essential a teacher is to a student if you were to read Rose’s narrative and see that: students float to expectations, if teachers don’t expect anything of you they won’t help you, and how beneficial it is to have a teacher who challenges you to be better.

In the essay “I Just Wanna Be Average,” Mike Rose explains how the failure of students is all revolved around the teachers, when the fault should be put on everybody.

Students will become what their teachers believe they can become. If a teacher believes a student lacks motivation and is in the lower level class, such as the vocational track instead of the college track, often times the students won’t care or put in effort to succeed. The expectations or absence of them, damages the future of these students and their yearning for greatness. Mike Rose recounts his years in vocational school in the short story, “I Just Wanna Be Average” as he struggles with physical abuse from his teachers that utilized their power to control the ill-mannered youths, coupled with his lack of desire to learn, only to discover how one educator could transform his view on education.

At the beginning of the book, Rose mentioned many students who suffered school for many reasons. He mentioned Laura, who took his English’s class four times and dropped it because of the fear of making mistakes. Laura’s story showed that teachers didn’t try hard enough to help students overcomes their fear, instead they let them suffered. He also mentioned Bobby, he was a star during high school but felt lost when he came to college. He wasn’t prepared well enough for college and couldn’t complete any of his assignment. The lack of preparation from his high school teachers had failed him. The score that show on Laura’s and Bobby’s test had isolated them from their classmates. The teachers didn’t try to figure out what happened to these kids, instead, they focus on the test score, and removed these kids from their classroom, put them

Trust and respect is the foundation of learning. The author explains if there is no trust and no respect, the process will not work. She explained before the Daily 5, they didn’t trust students could read independently without a worksheet to accompany them. Since there was not trust in the student, there was a lack of respect because the student didn’t want to complete another paper just because the teacher said so. The teacher also has to respect the student. If the student shows signs of stamina being broken before the rest of

After learning the scores of the students’ practice test scores, Mr. Clark needed to talk to all every single one of the teachers. Mr. Clark used ethos to let the teachers that they were not doing enough to help the kids get better scores on the test and they need to give them help if they are going to improve. Right before the students take the final exam, Mr. Clark told all of his students that they could pass the exam even though all of those people doubted them. With Mr.

Emily Smith seems to believe that the main problem in this scenario is an issue of the teachers in Alton High School failing to reach and make connections with the students they perceive to be more difficult than others. Specifically, Ms. Smith struggles with a student named Carlos Sanchez, whom her cooperating teacher indicates is the most difficult student in his classes on her first full day at the school. At the beginning of her experience, Ms. Smith opens up to John Nolan, her cooperating teacher, about how Carlos reminds her of her own younger brother Jake. She tells Mr. Nolan “most teachers thought he was dumb. But he wasn’t – he just needed a different kind of teaching. Any teacher that took the time to get to know Jake, to talk to him, to find out why he wasn’t doing the work, ended up getting great results from him” (p. 10). The connection she makes between Carlos and her own brother is reflective of her idea that Carlos’ other teachers simply have not reached him in a way he has needed to be reached up to this point. Her question at the end of the section regarding having lost Carlos for good is also reflective of this as her main problem, as she feels that making a personal connection to her most difficult students is crucial to her management of and success in the classroom.

In the movie, The Freedom Writers Mrs. Erin Gruwell (Hillary Swank) plays a role of a dedicated teacher who did all she could, to help her students learn to respect themselves and each other. She has little idea of what she's getting into when she volunteers to be an English teacher at a newly integrated high school in Long Beach, California. Her students were divided along racial lines and had few aspirations beyond basic survival. Mrs. Gruwell was faced with a big challenge when a group of freshmen students showed her nothing but disrespect which made it hard for her to communicate, teach and understand them. However, Erin Gruwell was determined that no matter the cost she would teach her students not only

Trust is perhaps the most important element of an effective and efficient educational environment. I think creating a climate of trust requires us to explore two questions "how can we build trust as leaders in education, and how can we avoid losing it?" In order to build a truly

" Jaime believes otherwise, and the students proceed to prove them wrong by finding the courage to separate themselves from societies expectations for failure and to rise above through hard work and dedication. Their rigorous study sessions and desire to learn pay off by receiving astounding scores on the AP test and reaching their goals. However, their toxic environment bites them again when the

The film Freedom Writers directed by Richard La Gravenese is an American film based on the story of a dedicated and idealistic teacher named Erin Gruwell, who inspires and teaches her class of belligerent students that there is hope for a life outside gang violence and death. Through unconventional teaching methods and devotion, Erin eventually teaches her pupils to appreciate and desire a proper education. The film itself inquiries into several concepts regarding significant and polemical matters, such as: acceptance, racial conflict, bravery, trust and respect. Perhaps one of the more concentrated concepts of the film, which is not listed above, is the importance and worth of education. This notion is