Garfield High School

Have you ever had someone who has greatly inspired you to be successful? In the movie “Stand and Deliver,” the teacher, Jaime Escalante, teaches math to his students at Garfield High School. In his class, there are gang members and some of students that drop out of school. Some of his students are not paying attention in class when he first teaches. He wants all his students to pass the math class. He tries to help them do better on an exam and succeed to be able to graduate. He believes that his

and all brought something else to the movie. The star of the movie is Jaime Escalante played by Edward James Olmos. Escalante is the teacher of the students that quits his job with a computer company to teach at Garfield High School. He comes to teach computer science, but the school did not get the computers and he has to teach math. He takes over the math class and expects a great deal of his students and challenges the faculty to allow him to teach Mr. Escalante encounters some opposition

from Garfield High school. This high school has meant a lot to the community and the students that attended it. This is not just a building, but an institution that has turned out a lot of great minds and professional athletes. Losing the high school in this district would be devastating. I feel that we should invest our tax dollars in our own city, and worry about the future of our own child, by keeping Akron schools in the community of Akron. Purpose Garfield high along with Kenmore High school

sparks fizzle out. When my high school health teacher was diagnosed with breast cancer, she seemed to wane altogether as she became weighed down with depression. Mrs. Garfield was a staple of Cardozo High School. The rowdy health teacher was well known by the entire staff and all of the students. Her presence rivaled thunder; her cackling laugh could be heard from across the building and she initially imposed anxiety in new students. A polarizing force, Mrs. Garfield left students either loving

increasingly difficult. As a school board member for the Peoria School district it is important and crucial to effective budget decision making to be educated on the school districts budget design and delegated responsibilities within the system. These decisions need to be made based on the protection of public funds and property. “The legal responsibility for such protection rests solely with the board of education in each school district” (Brimley, Verstengen, Garfield, 2012, pg. 332). Areas vital

students faced in the city of East Los Angeles California. This movie is based on the true story of a mathematics teacher who motivated high school students at Garfield High School to learn about calculus. Additionally, this film will identify the context, norms, values, language, gender roles and the social structures of the movie. In this film, Garfield high school is located in a poor neighborhood in East Los Angeles. The movie portrayed this neighborhood as a location that was surrounded by violence

Escalante, the new mathematics teacher at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles, started his job with the determination to change the system and challenge Garfield's students to a higher level of education. Teaching unmotivated adolescent was a challenge for Escalante, but he was able to accomplish his goal. Based on the true story of the real-life Jaime Escalante, Stand and Deliver tells the typical American underdog story, where an inner-city school leaves the shadows and steps into the light

Janet P Stamatel, in Bolivia they have a unique way of teaching where the teacher is not the one that tests the student, a teacher from another school is, this makes the environment at the school a teacher and students versus the test instead of

Who is Jaime Escalante? Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutiérrez, a Bolivian immigrant, lived from 1930 to 2010. During his life, he becomes famous for his work as a high school math teacher. He was notably, nationally recognized for transforming the math department at Garfield High School where he taught students who were believed to be troubled and unteachable in Los Angeles, California. According to the 1988 Hollywood film, which Stand and Deliver, which depicted his career as a teacher, Jaime Escalante's

The film Stand and Deliver, featured a dramatization of the story of teacher Jaime Escalante and his efforts at Garfield High School in Eastern Los Angeles. Mr. Escalante used unconventional teaching strategies and unique motivational skills to bring success to students who seemed to be accustomed to failure. The students spent the entirety of their senior year in Mr. Escalante’s classroom preparing for the exam, even throughout the holiday breaks. Hours of the intense, endless studying resulted