Rafe Esquith

prepare the audience for the first appearance for Rafe on the stage? What are the audience expected to think about him? 07817966841 224 1970 In this coursework I will be focusing on a play called "Spring and Port Wine". It was first performed in 1965 and is set about forty years ago. I am going to comment on how social and historical things have changed since then and how we as an audience are expected to think of the character called Rafe before his first entry in the play. At the start

Rafe Esquith teaches fifth grade at Hobart Elementary School in California. In his novel, Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire, he reflects on his experiences as a teacher at an inner-city school located in the not so safe side of Los Angeles. Rafe is aware he has to be forceful with his students for them to learn, but he also focuses on their enjoyment of learning in his classroom. Each chapter has useful tips on how to be a successful teacher by incorporating fun activities into the lesson plans and

Into the first chapter of the book, Rafe describes the school environment as a place that “accepts graffiti-covered walls and urine soaked bathroom floors as normal” He has a “tiny leaky classroom” with “insufficient space” in a school where the faculty and students are “surrounded by racism, poverty and ignorance”. Based on the setting would I want to teach at his school? No, not really. However based on how he perceives the classroom and how he wants the kids' to perceive the classroom, Yes I would

Rafe Esquith the author of Teach like your Hair’s on Fire, always seems to put the children he teaches first. He has been referred to by the Washington Post as “the world’s most famous teacher” (Deloza, 2014). He is known for his incredible dedication and commitment to the children he teaches (Deloza, 2014). From the very beginning, his book allows you to experience, both Esquith’s love of teaching and his journey with Room 56, a classroom, in a struggling neighborhood in Los Angeles. The book

Like Your Hair’s On Fire, Rafe Esquith has a lot of words of wisdom for future or current teachers. Rafe seems like a very wise teacher who has been through it all during his journey. He teaches at a school where many of the students live in households under the poverty level. Out of all of the lessons in this book, there are a few that stick out to me. A few are classrooms are managed by fear when they should not be, the six levels of moral development and how we study. Rafe goes into great detail

1. Rafe Esquith demonstrated an authoritative classroom management style in There Are No Shortcuts. Authoritative teachers have caring attitudes towards their students and declare limits when necessary (Santrock, p. 475). For example, Esquith wrote that he spent time to catch up his students that were behind, encouraged them to reach their highest potential, and believed that they could improve their skills (Esquith, p. 54). He stayed after school or sat with children for extra hours if they were

Rafe Esquith is more than an elementary school teacher; he is a role model to hundreds of students, teachers, and other individuals who have the honor of learning about him. Most teachers follow their school responsibilities to educate their children. Rafe not only educates them, but makes sure that he gets to know each child, enhances their self-esteem, and empowers them. Rafe also works the weekends just for his students who come to learn more. Rafe demonstrates various skills that are utilized

Its curriculum is mostly based on life experience where knowledge is “obtained through interactions, [and it is] constructed from what is seen, heard, [and] done” (Powell, 2015, p.73). It is like when Rafe takes his students to field trips to give his students experiential learnings from real life involvement. The next student centered philosophy is social reconstructionism which is “to educate students in ways that will help society move beyond all

TEACH LIKE YOUR HAIR’S ON FIRE: ANECDOTAL WISDOM OF AN EXPERIENCED EDUCATOR Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire by Rafe Esquith is a book, where one finds pieces of wisdom of an experienced educator on how to become a better teacher, parent and person and also a student (prologue). By sharing such wisdom extracted over the years and inviting teachers to a difficult self-training in the shape of “true sacrifice, mistakes and enormous amount of effort,” (prologue) instead of providing them with “simple

Real Teachers Rafe Esquith brings in his own classroom experiences to gather tips and advice for teachers. He introduces a lot of examples and ends each piece of advice with pointers to summarize his words. While reading this book, I connected a lot of his experiences with my own. I was thinking of ways my teachers were very similar to Rafe and ways they could have been better. I was also constantly coming up with my own ideas if I were able to teach in a classroom. For example, Rafe talked about