in class activity question #2

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Dan Brown states in his article that among many things that make a good teacher, student-teaching programs and experience, positive and constructive feedback from superiors, engaging in community affairs, and showing leadership with the students are all "ingredients" to make a good teacher. In the movie "Stand and Deliver", Mr Escalante is not experienced in teaching math. You see in this film when he first arrives that he had been hired on to teach computer class, but is placed in a math class that he is not trained to teach. Right away he is faced with rebellion from his students, when one young man, Angel, begins the movie with coming and going as he pleases. As well as inviting his friends in to threaten Mr. Escalante. Mr. Escalante had not been trained or observed this before in a student-teaching environment, which is suggested by Dan Brown. Even when the students state "this is our senior year, our year to slack off" and "whats calculus?" he managed to reel them in still. He also did not receive much if any support from his faculty and fellow staff members, which is something that Dan Brown states is important when being a good teacher. He is told that he "will disappoint the students when they do not pass the AP test". The first staff meeting shows other teachers quitting, while Mr. Escalante offers to teach more. Stating "children will rise to the expectations in which they are held" Lastly, we look at leadership and building a relationship with students, Mr. Escalante does this, and well. He sees a fight break out between gang members and immediately apprehends one of the students that is his own, Angel. He develops drum rolls that he and his students do together to get them excited about something in class. They miss him after he is away from school because of a heart attack. He allows Angel and his grandmother into his home and they become closer acquainted over dinner. Mr Escalante fits this portion of the criteria, the rest he was not as lucky to have. It was not ideal teaching standards to start with.