What Is a Good Teacher

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What is a good teacher? After watching the movie “stand and deliver”, I am really impressed by Mr.Escalante. I totally think that he is a good and caring teacher. First, he is really passion in teaching. He quitted his steady and high paid job and wanted to be a computer science teacher at Garfield high school. However he got assigned to be a mathematics teacher because the school didn’t have any funds for computers. And what worse is his classroom was a completely chaotic disaster that he even got threaten by his own students on his first day of teaching. But he didn’t get disappointed; instead he applied some creative and innovative methods to explain some complex mathematics concepts and raise students’ interest in learning it. In contrast to the principal and other teachers, they only cared about whether the school would lose its accreditation and how to maintain discipline. They only focus on the ‘empirical questions they encounter in schools and not the important philosophical educational issues’, like the development of student. On the other hands, Mr.Escalante always believes in his students. When his colleagues told him that his students were illiterates with barely 7th grade education, he encouraged his students that they had potential and abilities to change the situation that they were facing and all they needed is guts and desire. He tried his best to build up their confidence and wanted to change their thoughts that they should believe in themselves and everyone can be a dreamer. He challenged his students with calculus and AP exam as he believed that math is the great equalizer that can lead to a great career. He understood calculus was a very hard subject for them so he offered extra time and extra efforts to teach his students, and he worried about his student when he was in hospital. He had never forced his students to attend any of his class
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