Aruya
Davis
Dr.
Sonia Apgar Begert
English
101
“Who is a good teacher and who is not?”
If you are a teacher, how you could
be a good teacher since everyone has different on his/her own perspective what
a good teacher is. Also, how you would
not be a bad teacher that everyone hate. These easy simple questions do not give you easy
simple answers. However, many evidences
of great teachers throughout our lives have shown us it is not hard to be a
good teacher and many evidences show us how a bad teacher is. There is no exactly line to point out what a
good teacher is or what is a bad teacher.
It could depend in different situations between teacher and student. In movies Freedom Writers, Ms. Gruwell is
a great teacher because she is dedicated and cares for her students. On the other hand, in articles “School”, Sister
Mary of Perpetual Help is not a good teacher because she is lack of connects and
emotion abuse with her students.
Ms. Gruwell is a great teacher
because she is dedicated. She has tried
very hard to find the right solutions to improve her students’ knowledge. When the principle is not let her to use the
school books, she decides to work more two part time jobs—to be able to buy
books for her students. She has put many
thought what is good for her students. She
buys books that related to students’ lives and the books have opened and inspired
students’ mind. Furthermore, Ms. Gruwell
takes students on a field trip to the Museum of Tolerance, and then she takes
students to have dinner with some Holocaust survivors. This trip and dinner have become significant experiences
for her students. They had not been
treated with respect and a proper manner before; Ms. Gruwell treats her students
with respect and kindness heart. After dinner,
one student decides to throw away his gun, because he cannot forget how violence
affect and cause the young Holocaust victim’s life that he sees in museum. Most students realize their situations are
less worse than Jews people in holocaust. The boundary of violence and fighting they had
before has gone by experience of a field trip and dinner that Ms. Gruwell makes
for them. Ms. Gruwell dedicated works
change her students behavior to be better way. They become to connect each another in class,
obsessive in reading, and make sense about their lives. Ms. Gruwell is not just improving their knowledge
but she has improved the better life for her students, too.
Ms. Gruwell is also a great teacher
because she is cared about her students. While the principle and the other colleagues
give up about students’ room 203, Ms. Gruwell has the different point of view. She believes students’ ability and wants them
to have the right education rather than just keep them busy at school. Ms. Gruwell is care very much with her
students. They become as a family. When one student asks Ms. Gruwell to stay with
her after school to work on the homework and wait for her aunt, Ms. Gruwell say
yes with fully happiness and warm feeling. Ms. Gruwell knows how much her students need
her for the following year. She goes to
fight the authority to be with her students and helps them to graduate a high
school. Ms. Gruwell makes a point what
the other teacher could not teach her class because they are not like students.
This point is so true. If teacher does not care or like his/her
class, how much improvement in the class would be? One student read the journal through the class
in the party how rough in his life, and then how much Ms. Gruwell class has
changed his life. Ms. Gruwell shows how a
great teacher she is. She is not just knowledgeable
as same as the other teacher but she is being more than ordinary teacher. The dedicated and care of her students make
her to be such a great teacher.
Sister Marry of Perpetual Help is a
bad teacher because she is lack of connection with her class. She does not understand individual student
need. She makes student feel either she
does not like to teacher or students. She
is not notice about Lorde’s reading number problem. She prejudice Lorde would be able to do
homework on her own, and blame Lorde is a bad student to lie to her. Sister Marry of Perpertual Help is not tried
to understand her student. Furthermore,
she judges her student from her own braise. This situation becomes the terrified learning
experience to Lorde. Lorde could not
understand what she was doing wrong and why she got punished. When teacher does not pay enough attention
and judges from their own braise, she/he would not be able to understand
student. The learning improvement would
be able to grow if teacher and students loss their connection as what Sister
Marry of Perpetual Help does with Lorde.
Sister Marry of Perpetual Help is
not a good teacher because she was emotion abuse to her students. Emotion abuse is very sensitive topic nowadays
but no one pays much attention during that time yet. However, everyone would expect
to see teacher give education in mature manner and kindness heart. Sister Marry of Perpetual Help does not have
the right manner to be a good teacher. Sister
Marry of Perpetual Help has divided up the class in two colors groups; the
Fairies and the Brownies. It is racism
and this evidence show Sister Marry of Perpetual Help does not use an appropriate
manner as a teacher. Moreover, Sister
Marry of Perpetual Help is emotion abuse Lorde by has the rest of students in
the class offer up a special prayer for Lorde to stop be a wicked-hearted
child, because Lorde breaks her glasses by accident. Lord does not mean to break her glass when
Sister Marry of Perpetual Help asks the rest of the class to pray for her as a
bad girl is not the right thing to do. There
is no good cause for Sister Marry of Perpetual Help to do it rather than abuse
Lorde. This situation has caused Lord
for stress and affects her learning in the young age. Every teacher should have the right manner to
teach. Sister Marry of Perpetual Help is
not just a bad teacher; she is not even ready to be a teacher from what she has
done with Lorde.
A good teacher should be dedicate
and care about her students as Mr. Gruwell does , also, it is not a good
teacher if you are lack of connection and emotion abuse with your students as
same as Sister Marry of Perpetual Help. At
the end of result, every student loves Ms. Gruwell as a family and some even
more respect her as a mother. In controversy,
most students do like Sister Marry of Perpetual Help and remember her as a
worse teacher in their lives. Even
though there is no exactly line to be a good teacher or a bad teacher, we still
are able to tell who is a good teacher or not. Those evidences show us clearly in our eyes
what we should follow and what should not. We should learn from significant success and
mistake from both teachers. We should
decide what kind of teacher we would like to be. Do we want to be as Ms. Gruwell or Sister
Marry of Perpetual Help?
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