1. As a Latina I can connect and relate with the teacher and the students presented in the movie Stand and Deliver. The tropes that I see in Stand and Deliver by Jaime Escalante are very obvious because they are showed in this movie and many other movies where people of color are present. Latinos do not have motivation, their parents do not care about their education, teachers underestimate their academic capacity and they come from poor families.This movie is based in a true story about Jaime Escalante going to a school where their is mostly Latinos to be a technology teacher but the school does not have computers so he ends up being a mathematics teacher.
The students are being taught low level math and Jaime told them and believe on
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The students stayed after school and got earlier to school to be taught math and sometimes even went to Mr. Escalante's home to study. Although the students are accused of cheating because their good scores on the AP calculus test, they re-test and still got good scores. Escalante fought for the students integrity and by showing the education system that this poor latinos were able to pass a AP test that they should not be underestimated.
The viewer can see what a good teacher looks like by Jaime’s way of teaching and treating the students. It gives the reader the message that the students that are underestimated could actually succeed and gives a sense of satisfaction to see the students have a better life with the help of a teacher that made them feel different than any other teacher. Even if the movie is not realistic to many people. The students were given an opportunity to reach their teachers goal and they succeeded.
The Hollywood Model: Who Is The Good Teacher? Jaime Escalante also did the same thing that LouAnne did in Dangerous Minds by getting involved in personal level, encouraging their intellectual growth and encouraging their families to keep their children at