Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Blog post#37 5/14 Continue Writeing paper#2



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. 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.  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.  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 teacher.  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 in a 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.         
                         

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