After watching “Stand and Deliver” all of the way through, I
consider Mr. Escalante a good teacher, because he achieved his goal of teaching
his students calculus. He walked into class on the first day completely unprepared
expecting to teach another class, and he still got the motivation to sit down
and help the students learn how to do advanced math. Mr. Escalante was very
strict at some points in the movie, and a lot of the time he was extremely
unrealistic. He would criticize the students for everything they did wrong, and
make them practice and practice until they did it the right way. He was one of
those teachers that believed that you work and work at something until you can
do it flawlessly. He made his students still come to class over their Christmas
break, and work on learning calculus in time for the big test. I certainly
would not want to take a class from Mr. Escalante because he expects an
unreasonable amount of work from you, but I consider him a good teacher because
he communicates well with his students and he tells you exactly what he
expects.
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