1. What was the approach followed by the teacher in her class?
I think there’s no one single approach that Erin Gruwell followed in her class. I'd say that she created a new approach. She always had meaningful activities for students, outdoor activities, excellent warm-ups, and creative and big projects. She really approached to students’ lives and changed them.
2. What did the administration think of Mrs. G´s students? That they were incompetent, they couldn’t be more that simple students. They were rebellious and didn’t like to be at school.
3. What role does the socio-cultural context play in the way the school and the students interact in this school? The school had many different cultural groups and therefore discrimination. Nobody wanted to get together with another from other origin. They took care of everyone in their group and saw the others as enemies. Many of them were members of gangs so they were fighting many times. Some students had to survive each day because of poverty and crime.
4. How does a young teacher get respect from her students? How does she inspire them? She was really interested in helping them change their attitudes towards school and others. She never gave up, she always came up with new and interesting activities to touch their hearts and join them. She turned her group into a family where everybody respected and considered the other. She believed in them, she considered them with the ability to learn difficult things. She helped them understand their situations of tragedy and problems by having them read stories like that one of Anne Frank and having a meeting with Miep Gies, a Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis during World War II.
1. What was the approach followed by the teacher in her class? I think the teacher followed a humanistic viewpoint. She was not only interested on the syllabus, but also in the lives of the students. She saw that only by trying to teach the contents the class would have failed, and that is why she first tried to solve the problems among the classmates to create a positive learning environment.
2. What did the administration think of Mrs. G’s students? They were not students for them, they saw them as problems. They had no intellectual capacity; they were full of problems in their lives, so they did not believe in them: they were illiterate criminals.
3. What roles does the socio-cultural context play in the way the school and the students interact in this school? Knowing these cultural differences were an important part in the life of the people in this community, the school was part of an integration program, which is meant to create cultural awareness that can integrate students to build a peaceful society through education. Socio-cultural differences can be a barrier for the integration of people, in this case, students in a classroom. Different groups did not allow outsiders be part of their groups, they were very disrespectful, because they ignored that all of them were somehow in the same circumstances, just viewed from a different cultural perspective.
4. How does a young teacher get respect from her students? How does she inspire them? She respects her students, and treats them as people, which is something they had never felt before in that school. She believes in them, and gains their respect as well. She lives for them. It is worth mentioning that she never gives up, no matter how difficult the class is, and also students are greatly influenced by what everyone expects from them, in this case Mrs. G. always saw them as excellent students, a goal that they later reached.
1. What was the approach followed by the teacher in her class? I think the teacher followed a humanistic approach because, she took care about her students, she realized about what was happening in their lives, in order to know why they did not success on their syllabus. 2. What did the administration think of Mrs. G´s students? They did not perceive the students as people equal as them, they considered them as problems, as if they were not able to think or to behave as whites ones, because there exists racism.
3. What role does the socio-cultural context play in the way the school and the students interact in this school? The school worked with an integration program, so there were students from different backgrounds and, that provokes many issues on the school, the students were part of groups that made aggressions among them, they were despectful, and that did not permit to create a good class environment.
4. 4. How does a young teacher get respect from her students? How does she inspire them? Mrs. G proved something that other teachers did not, she treated them as people, ass equal ones, she did everything for them, she asked permissions, she thought on their needs of comprehension, love, and with some strategies well done, she made them to realize they were equal, because they had lived similar experiences. They reflected on that and at the end thanks to her, and they support, they were satisfied because they reached a goal, that was to finish the school, and in a personal level they were together, something they couldn´t do before.
1. What was the approach followed by the teacher in her class? I cannot recognize what kind of approach Erin was following, but I think that she only wants to give to students a meaningful education, not just to give them information that they will not use it in a future, in place of that, a real education whose could help them and something to grown up as a person.
2. What did the administration think of Mrs. G´s students? Administration told her that students were the worse in the school, and they do not really need to study, school was just a manner to keep them away from the streets for a while, so administration, so she does not need to waste her time trying to explain the material or even care for what were they learning. They were a waste of time.
3. What role does the socio-cultural context play in the way the school and the students interact in this school? The school had a lot of socio-cultural context, and that was the principal reason for discrimination and all the issues that were showed in the movie. Students always want to be only with their own groups, but Erin took the environment and different situation in their lives to make them understand that no matter the origin, they were the same.
4. How does a young teacher get respect from her students? How does she inspire them? She gets respect, respect them, of course it was not a simple as that, she needs time and make them feel, that she was really interested in them, and not just being there by force. Teacher gives them material to identified themselves with someone else of real life, as Anne Frank, so they will learn of it and think that they really have the opportunity of being better.
Rossy Chavarría
(sorry I forgot the password for my other account)
Hi! After reading your comments, I'd add that in the movie, we can't see clearly if this teacher really taught all the content assigned for the course. I remember that the coordinator was not very happy with her. I really liked the way she taught and did many meaningful activities. But some of them were very demanding and required money. She eventually had to work and get divorced. As a teacher she was great, but she didn't take care of her first commitment, her marriage. This lets me think about trying to have a balance between the profession and our social life.
Freedom Writers
ReplyDelete1. What was the approach followed by the teacher in her class?
I think there’s no one single approach that Erin Gruwell followed in her class. I'd say that she created a new approach. She always had meaningful activities for students, outdoor activities, excellent warm-ups, and creative and big projects. She really approached to students’ lives and changed them.
2. What did the administration think of Mrs. G´s students?
That they were incompetent, they couldn’t be more that simple students. They were rebellious and didn’t like to be at school.
3. What role does the socio-cultural context play in the way the school and the students interact in this school?
The school had many different cultural groups and therefore discrimination. Nobody wanted to get together with another from other origin. They took care of everyone in their group and saw the others as enemies. Many of them were members of gangs so they were fighting many times. Some students had to survive each day because of poverty and crime.
4. How does a young teacher get respect from her students? How does she inspire them?
She was really interested in helping them change their attitudes towards school and others. She never gave up, she always came up with new and interesting activities to touch their hearts and join them. She turned her group into a family where everybody respected and considered the other. She believed in them, she considered them with the ability to learn difficult things. She helped them understand their situations of tragedy and problems by having them read stories like that one of Anne Frank and having a meeting with Miep Gies, a Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis during World War II.
END :-)
Freedom Writers
ReplyDelete1. What was the approach followed by the teacher in her class?
I think the teacher followed a humanistic viewpoint. She was not only interested on the syllabus, but also in the lives of the students. She saw that only by trying to teach the contents the class would have failed, and that is why she first tried to solve the problems among the classmates to create a positive learning environment.
2. What did the administration think of Mrs. G’s students?
They were not students for them, they saw them as problems. They had no intellectual capacity; they were full of problems in their lives, so they did not believe in them: they were illiterate criminals.
3. What roles does the socio-cultural context play in the way the school and the students interact in this school?
Knowing these cultural differences were an important part in the life of the people in this community, the school was part of an integration program, which is meant to create cultural awareness that can integrate students to build a peaceful society through education. Socio-cultural differences can be a barrier for the integration of people, in this case, students in a classroom. Different groups did not allow outsiders be part of their groups, they were very disrespectful, because they ignored that all of them were somehow in the same circumstances, just viewed from a different cultural perspective.
4. How does a young teacher get respect from her students? How does she inspire them?
She respects her students, and treats them as people, which is something they had never felt before in that school. She believes in them, and gains their respect as well. She lives for them. It is worth mentioning that she never gives up, no matter how difficult the class is, and also students are greatly influenced by what everyone expects from them, in this case Mrs. G. always saw them as excellent students, a goal that they later reached.
Freedom Writters
ReplyDelete1. What was the approach followed by the teacher in her class?
I think the teacher followed a humanistic approach because, she took care about her students, she realized about what was happening in their lives, in order to know why they did not success on their syllabus.
2. What did the administration think of Mrs. G´s students?
They did not perceive the students as people equal as them, they considered them as problems, as if they were not able to think or to behave as whites ones, because there exists racism.
3. What role does the socio-cultural context play in the way the school and the students interact in this school?
The school worked with an integration program, so there were students from different backgrounds and, that provokes many issues on the school, the students were part of groups that made aggressions among them, they were despectful, and that did not permit to create a good class environment.
4. 4. How does a young teacher get respect from her students? How does she inspire them?
Mrs. G proved something that other teachers did not, she treated them as people, ass equal ones, she did everything for them, she asked permissions, she thought on their needs of comprehension, love, and with some strategies well done, she made them to realize they were equal, because they had lived similar experiences. They reflected on that and at the end thanks to her, and they support, they were satisfied because they reached a goal, that was to finish the school, and in a personal level they were together, something they couldn´t do before.
Freedom Writers
ReplyDelete1. What was the approach followed by the teacher in her class?
I cannot recognize what kind of approach Erin was following, but I think that she only wants to give to students a meaningful education, not just to give them information that they will not use it in a future, in place of that, a real education whose could help them and something to grown up as a person.
2. What did the administration think of Mrs. G´s students?
Administration told her that students were the worse in the school, and they do not really need to study, school was just a manner to keep them away from the streets for a while, so administration, so she does not need to waste her time trying to explain the material or even care for what were they learning. They were a waste of time.
3. What role does the socio-cultural context play in the way the school and the students interact in this school?
The school had a lot of socio-cultural context, and that was the principal reason for discrimination and all the issues that were showed in the movie. Students always want to be only with their own groups, but Erin took the environment and different situation in their lives to make them understand that no matter the origin, they were the same.
4. How does a young teacher get respect from her students? How does she inspire them?
She gets respect, respect them, of course it was not a simple as that, she needs time and make them feel, that she was really interested in them, and not just being there by force. Teacher gives them material to identified themselves with someone else of real life, as Anne Frank, so they will learn of it and think that they really have the opportunity of being better.
Rossy Chavarría
(sorry I forgot the password for my other account)
Hi!
ReplyDeleteAfter reading your comments, I'd add that in the movie, we can't see clearly if this teacher really taught all the content assigned for the course. I remember that the coordinator was not very happy with her.
I really liked the way she taught and did many meaningful activities. But some of them were very demanding and required money. She eventually had to work and get divorced. As a teacher she was great, but she didn't take care of her first commitment, her marriage.
This lets me think about trying to have a balance between the profession and our social life.