Both are good teachers with great teaching skills but hey
are different in the way they teach, communicate with their students, and above
all act. Mr. Escalante from the movie “Stand and deliver” and Mr. Keating from
“Dead poets society” whom are close to prime subjects for this comparison. They
have many similarities but also a few differences which defiantly shows who is
the better teacher in the sense of good teaching. They both have their own ways
of talking to their students outside of class and inside of the classrooms,
which shows their personalities and their teaching methods in a different
light. There are also some of the ways they encouraged the students to work on
their class and homework. Their attitudes are also another aspect that is
involved with their teaching and interaction with the students such as if they
get aggravated or angry with the students in anyway. Also the ways they teach
by invoking any type of emotion onto the student in order to create a scenario in
which the students would start to think clearer because of these emotions. How
the students were affected due to the teaching and the communication between
the students is another important view that I will be compared between the
teachers. Both teachers have a good teaching habits but the little things they
do affect the students in some way may it be large or small. Both teaches have
a dry sense of humor which the students seem to enjoy, but I question if some
of the jokes they make are really suitable for in a school environment and if
they are truly necessary in the first place. The smallest of details put
together is what makes something great such as the little remarks or statements
that the teachers make which help the students develop the understanding of the
lessons.
I could
speak of the bad teaching of Mr. Escalante but there wouldn’t be that much to
talk of but truly Mr. Escalante has always had good intentions when working
with his students but in some circumstances he gets so caught up in the his own
expectations of his students because he values them so high that he believes
that the students already understand the concept of the lesson that he is
teaching. Mr. Escalante tries to involve himself within his students life’s to create
a bond of sorts so that the children understand him more in, other words he tries
to create a relationship between him and his students which is similar to the
relationship of a family in which he would uses to create an environment of
understanding as of a family. It is as if he brings his students to his level
which is the opposite of Mr. Keating that I will go over later in the section
explaining Mr. Keating’s teachings. However while Mr. Escalante is creating
this environment he fails to remember that families also has their
disagreements which brings him to the brink of a minor heart attack after an argument
between him and the students; which was unclear because the students had all
gotten the same answer to a math question which was never corrected if it was
truly an incorrect answer. But in some instances he truly knows what is right
for his students because he has good intentions for them. An example being that
he went to the two investigators in order to find out why his students had
thought to have been cheating on a test which they had passed following the
correct instructions. Mr. Escalante also uses some dry humor which was not
really appropriate to invoke some emotion of happiness which helped the
students remember the materials better. Considering these things Mr. Escalante
is a good teacher who believes in his students and but he has a few bad habits.
Mr.
Keating is very different in many ways compared to Mr. Escalante in the way
they think for their student but what they believe is right for their students
is all that different. They both want their students to grow and prosper into
people unlike any other; to blossom into prime examples of life in the making,
in other words they want their students to be the best. The way Mr. Keating
helps himself and his students understand each other by going down to level of
maturity and humor and it seems that he can handle it well without doing any
bad teaching in the process. There is one instance where others would disagree
with me on that note where Mr. Keating puts one of his students in front of his
classmates invoking pressure upon the student but this also helped the student
understand the lessons better and even give him inspiration to look into the
details instead of looking at them. The school that Mr. Keating teaches in was
once an institute in which he took classes in so he knows of the discipline
which is used within its walls. He uses an appropriate humor with the students
which is similar to Mr. Escalante but Mr. Keating seems to avoid any inappropriate
humor so he doesn’t get himself into trouble. Even though it may seem as if Mr.
Keating gets out of hand he still maintains a good line of respect between his
students and himself which he started by saying “Oh captain, My captain” which
he is referred to throughout the story. Mr. Keating was so inspirational to the
children the he put them in a world none like any other, a world in which the discipline
which was lesser than what the real world had; a world full of creativity which
had no limits.
In the
end it seems as if Mr. Keating is the Better Teacher than Mr. Escalante But
there are a lot of differences in time and place, where Mr. Keating was in the
1950’s in an academy somewhere in the east coast, and Mr. Escalante a teacher
in Downtown L.A. in the 1980’s. These differences do contribute to both
teachers teachings but have little to do with if they were good or bad. But in
some ways Mr. Escalante is better than Mr. Keating making them both great at
what they do. Mr. Escalante has a way of involving himself in his student’s
lives where Mr. Keating couldn’t, and Mr. Keating inspires his students in a
way in which Mr. Escalante didn’t. Even though they both had something that the
other didn’t, they both changed their students’ lives in such a way that made
these children ready for the adult world. These Teachers impacted upon these
kids nailing the lesson taught into their heads so that they could use them in
the future. Both Mr. Keating and Mr. Escalante are talented at what they do and
they do it beautifully.
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