Monday, March 7, 2016

Reaction to the Shakespearians- Miranda

My response to the film is that it is very powerful in the way he teaches and how that it is so effective and useful on the kids he teaches. He takes kids that everyone else in the school has given up on and teaches them new ways to read and be effective at it. Along with teaching all of his students to read and act out Shakespeare, budget money, play instruments, and be able to take trips across the country to study and learn about history and how our country was founded.
It made me feel proud to see such smart kids in our nation and to see someone actually caring about students so that no child is left behind and going out if his way to help his students understand concepts in a new way, and as he would say "There are no shortcuts" which taught them to have good morals and not to cheat, or lie as it wouldn't work to begin with.
I don't remember an effective teaching technique when I was younger, I remember doing the same things as other kids did in class, but they also pulled me from class and put me with a group that met once a week that would help us go through preperation for the O.A.A tests, and I was also in speech therapy from kindergarten through 5th grade. But it wasn't really helpful to me, and I always felt like it was a waste of my time to go because I never got better pronouncing what she wanted me to say. I "graduated" from speech therapy at the end of fifth grade, even though I was not going back in middle school if I "needed" it according to her. It was not effective and I did not enjoy it. I learned nothing.
My specific goal for the next year is to save at least two thousand dollars in order to put it into a growth account and have it gain more interest than my growth account already does, so that the money can keep growing, even if it's small amount now. It will grow with time.  One sacrifice I will have to make is not being able to purchase any new make up for the next year. A true sacrifice, coming from a girl who spends over a thousand dollars on make up per year.

3 comments:

  1. I also find it very inspiring to see that there are teachers in that area that still care about the students and haven't lost hope in them.

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  2. I also find it very inspiring to see that there are teachers in that area that still care about the students and haven't lost hope in them.

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  3. I also think that its amazing to see what he did with the little resources he had. He made his class something great and something that the kids were proud to be apart of.

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