Summary and Analysis
Mr.Escalante gave up his engineer job for being a teacher at Garfield High School in Los Angeles County. There is not any computer at this school, and the school had no money to improve its equipment. Therefore, Mr. Escalante could not teach computer science at school, he finally turned into a math teacher.
The students there were undervalued and were not praised by other teachers at this school; however, Mr. Escalante trusted that he could make those students progress in their studies. As couple months passed by, he was able to win over the attention of the students by implementing innovative teaching strategies. Finally, Mr. Escalante decided to teach them calculus.
All the students took Mr. Escalante’s calculus class on summer and then they took test for the first time. As a result, they all passed the test. However, the inspectors of the test doubted about their scores because they found that those students made similar errors on the test. Mr. Escalante went to argue with inspectors and requested to retest the students. Ultimately, those students proved their competence by passing the test again.
Relation to Case Study
In the case study from Unit 1 and in this movie, we can see that both teachers were trying to make students improve in their studies, and there are both misunderstandings which related to students. Mei's teacher, Ms. Kramer, suggested Mei's to rewrite her paper and participate more in class to make up her grade on midterm exam. However, Mei made a misunderstanding that she thought Ms. Kramer will fail her, so she finally gave up this class. The similar situation between Ms. Kramer and Mr. Escalante is that Mr. Escalante tried to advance his students to pass the national calculus test, and used exotic ways to teach them. The misunderstanding in this move is happened between inspectors and students that inspectors adoubted that the students cheated on the test.
Reaction to the movie
There are always tough students at every school, so teachers must have different teaching skills to teach different students. Thus, when students meet problems, teachers can use appropriate ways to help them.
Mr.Escalante gave up his engineer job for being a teacher at Garfield High School in Los Angeles County. There is not any computer at this school, and the school had no money to improve its equipment. Therefore, Mr. Escalante could not teach computer science at school, he finally turned into a math teacher.
The students there were undervalued and were not praised by other teachers at this school; however, Mr. Escalante trusted that he could make those students progress in their studies. As couple months passed by, he was able to win over the attention of the students by implementing innovative teaching strategies. Finally, Mr. Escalante decided to teach them calculus.
All the students took Mr. Escalante’s calculus class on summer and then they took test for the first time. As a result, they all passed the test. However, the inspectors of the test doubted about their scores because they found that those students made similar errors on the test. Mr. Escalante went to argue with inspectors and requested to retest the students. Ultimately, those students proved their competence by passing the test again.
Relation to Case Study
In the case study from Unit 1 and in this movie, we can see that both teachers were trying to make students improve in their studies, and there are both misunderstandings which related to students. Mei's teacher, Ms. Kramer, suggested Mei's to rewrite her paper and participate more in class to make up her grade on midterm exam. However, Mei made a misunderstanding that she thought Ms. Kramer will fail her, so she finally gave up this class. The similar situation between Ms. Kramer and Mr. Escalante is that Mr. Escalante tried to advance his students to pass the national calculus test, and used exotic ways to teach them. The misunderstanding in this move is happened between inspectors and students that inspectors adoubted that the students cheated on the test.
Reaction to the movie
There are always tough students at every school, so teachers must have different teaching skills to teach different students. Thus, when students meet problems, teachers can use appropriate ways to help them.
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