John Taylor Gatto was a teacher for over 30 years and can only blame school for lack of student interest. His article on "How public schools cripple our kids, and why." He found himself as well as all the students board in the classroom. he later references his father saying to him that if "I was bored it was my fault and no one else's." In his teacher of the year acceptance speech he talks about how it is a rough time for education. He continues to talk about school being to blame for the bad grades and lack of attraction.
I personally agree with Gatto because i am a student and i know how it feels to be in a boring class. Many students would agree too, when we know what is going on in class that day you get the feeling that it is not important to be in the class. The days that we know that something interesting is occurring in class that day you will notice a slightly higher attendance.
Paulo Freire's idea of teaching is vary plan and simple. Student comes to school a few teachers fill their minds with information that the students sit and absorb. It is a to b, the students have no choice in what they can learn. his article goes on about contradictions in education, that if students had an influence on their own education they would actually need a teacher to give them options then again how would the students know what to teach themselves.
Freire's theories have been my favorite. all of his ideas seem to connect to the the average school life. The main idea is summed up that the young minds are empty and the teachers have the obligation to fill NOT DONE
Lisa Delpit teaches young students and her idea is that she can feed the children complex work and they will feel that it is natural. She realizes that this is not the most interesting way to teach but it is possable
Monday, April 26, 2010
HW - 49 - A 4-6 paragraph analysis of your section's class savior/teacher film
I had written a story line for the classes super teacher movie. it was not chosen, although i was allowed to contribute to to Victor's script. in the final cut of the movie i was in a quick flash. I played as a background.
Our classes movie was signaling that students need to respect teachers. the basic outline of the story is that a new teacher comes in to school after studying super teacher movies, and the students are not fooled. the students hurt the teachers feelings and later arrives to class a mess, the students pity him. problems are solved and the teacher has cured them.
the short movie's tone was loud and sad. in the class room it was noisy, people were making a mess of the class. andy the protagonist, his voice was not able to be herd in the first half of the movie. two thirds of the movie was a tragedy, its a shame that all these inner city school children have no respect for someone that is on a mission to help, its is also sad and i thought that it was a bit of a fail in the story line that the teacher was weak and had no control and that the only reason that there was respect is that andy went down a self destructive path.
In a sense the class film and the savior teacher had the same goal, to teach the delinquents, victor's idea was basically watching an ugly hamlet 2. All the other main characters in the super teacher movies were were determined throughout the entire movie and a majority of the time the saviors pitied the students.
going to an inner city school gave me a different perspective when watching the super teacher movies. Our school is not rough considering the others schools in the city.
Our classes movie was signaling that students need to respect teachers. the basic outline of the story is that a new teacher comes in to school after studying super teacher movies, and the students are not fooled. the students hurt the teachers feelings and later arrives to class a mess, the students pity him. problems are solved and the teacher has cured them.
the short movie's tone was loud and sad. in the class room it was noisy, people were making a mess of the class. andy the protagonist, his voice was not able to be herd in the first half of the movie. two thirds of the movie was a tragedy, its a shame that all these inner city school children have no respect for someone that is on a mission to help, its is also sad and i thought that it was a bit of a fail in the story line that the teacher was weak and had no control and that the only reason that there was respect is that andy went down a self destructive path.
In a sense the class film and the savior teacher had the same goal, to teach the delinquents, victor's idea was basically watching an ugly hamlet 2. All the other main characters in the super teacher movies were were determined throughout the entire movie and a majority of the time the saviors pitied the students.
going to an inner city school gave me a different perspective when watching the super teacher movies. Our school is not rough considering the others schools in the city.
Monday, April 12, 2010
HW 48 - Treatment for Savior/Teacher Movie
Ronald Calvin is new to the teaching environment he just received call from a school that put him on hold. There was an incident that left a student and a teacher in the hospital. The argument was apparently provoked by the student. at home Ronald watches the full review over he news and hops on his NETFLIX account and browses through some war movies and documentaries on dictators that show discipline and he takes notes.
His first day of work finally arrives. he walks through the metal gate that forked at the top ensuring that no one can go over the fence. There are bars on the window, the building has a cold feeling like being in a prison. he arrives at fifteen to eight and heads into the from office. There are no students to be seen. He asks the only secretary "where are al the students?" she replies that they show about twenty past the hour. Ronald is dressed in a grey suit, and put on a nice neck tie. the woman at the front desk in in her fifties, overweight, wearing a cardigan glasses with neck change.
Ronald wonders into the principles office has a very classic introduction. Juan Phanning is a man about discipline, wants no relationship with rouge students. Phanning provides Ronald with a cautionary tale.
Ronald runs through a day of class identifying who all of his students are and the roles that they play. In midst of watching a James bond special on Spike TV he is inspired to be a double agent at school. get on the students side hang out with them then once that they all think that they are on his side he will pull the plug.
His girlfriend is not happy about his plans but ignores her warnings. He winds up smoking with the stoners, gets involved with other crimes with the students. He begins to destroy his relationship with his girlfriend. After a couple weeks of crazy crime, drug abuse, and showing up later than the students at school. He lays in bed alone at home and looks through all the notes and all the careful planning has failed. The next morning he shaves puts a fresh suit on arrives to school the next early. When the students arrive, he has them form a circle of chairs and tells all of them his plans to screw them over.
The students have made friends with him and he has created a strong bond with him. Ronald lays on the new that he is going to lose his job if their grades don't improve. Phanning has made it clear to him that is his students don't pass the midterm that all the students will be kicked out of school and Ronald will not be able to teach in the entire county.
He has held the students back for a while and the rest of the movie the students are the only ones showing up on time to school. Ronald makes class fun for the students playing videos, games, and history reenactments. Later shots of the school is bright. gates are off the windows, a fresh coat of paint. The school looks very welcoming. The morning of the midterms one his students that had a rough home life was found shot and killed in the early morning. The rest of the students scored high and Ronald kept his job, his class graduated to the next grade and the school was renamed in memory of the student who died.
His first day of work finally arrives. he walks through the metal gate that forked at the top ensuring that no one can go over the fence. There are bars on the window, the building has a cold feeling like being in a prison. he arrives at fifteen to eight and heads into the from office. There are no students to be seen. He asks the only secretary "where are al the students?" she replies that they show about twenty past the hour. Ronald is dressed in a grey suit, and put on a nice neck tie. the woman at the front desk in in her fifties, overweight, wearing a cardigan glasses with neck change.
Ronald wonders into the principles office has a very classic introduction. Juan Phanning is a man about discipline, wants no relationship with rouge students. Phanning provides Ronald with a cautionary tale.
Ronald runs through a day of class identifying who all of his students are and the roles that they play. In midst of watching a James bond special on Spike TV he is inspired to be a double agent at school. get on the students side hang out with them then once that they all think that they are on his side he will pull the plug.
His girlfriend is not happy about his plans but ignores her warnings. He winds up smoking with the stoners, gets involved with other crimes with the students. He begins to destroy his relationship with his girlfriend. After a couple weeks of crazy crime, drug abuse, and showing up later than the students at school. He lays in bed alone at home and looks through all the notes and all the careful planning has failed. The next morning he shaves puts a fresh suit on arrives to school the next early. When the students arrive, he has them form a circle of chairs and tells all of them his plans to screw them over.
The students have made friends with him and he has created a strong bond with him. Ronald lays on the new that he is going to lose his job if their grades don't improve. Phanning has made it clear to him that is his students don't pass the midterm that all the students will be kicked out of school and Ronald will not be able to teach in the entire county.
He has held the students back for a while and the rest of the movie the students are the only ones showing up on time to school. Ronald makes class fun for the students playing videos, games, and history reenactments. Later shots of the school is bright. gates are off the windows, a fresh coat of paint. The school looks very welcoming. The morning of the midterms one his students that had a rough home life was found shot and killed in the early morning. The rest of the students scored high and Ronald kept his job, his class graduated to the next grade and the school was renamed in memory of the student who died.
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