Part 1 -3 of Stand and Deliver - Observations Of Teaching from Part 1-3 of Stand and Deliver

Part 1 of Stand and Deliver, I observed the following teaching structure:
Part 2 of Stand and Deliver, What I observed today , COMPARED to what I observed yesterday:
Part 3 of Stand and Deliver,  What kind of teacher was Mr. Escalante is?

• The atmosphere was similar to the stories we read about in the Literacy Narrative by Mike Rose. The children did what ever they wanted. Adversity filled the school. (examples: there were still troubled students inside the school, but there was only three that I observed)
• Segregated students for those that could only speak Spanish and not both Spanish and English, and he made the students that could only speak Spanish sit in the front of the rows and moved everyone back.(example: it seems that the students are sitting together as a group, no matter what language they spoke; the teacher feels that the children are once again being Segregated because of their raise)
• Made teaching fun, but visual learning. He came dressed up like a butcher and chopped an apple to show example of fractions; referencing hole in sand as a positive and a negative. (examples: he passed around oranges to have them have visual with math problems; the teacher continued to make jokes)
• The teacher, although in the right - confronted the student with attitude. He was tired of the students having control. He wanted classroom order.(examples: the teacher finally had the students respect he earned by being there for them and standing up for them)
• The teacher was trying to help the students set goals. (example: talking to the dad about her daughter, Anna, being the first in her family to graduate from college. she was having to quit school to work.)
• The teacher didn't want to allow other teachers to "Label" the students. The teacher continued to stand up for what he felt the children were capable of studying and passing (example: calculus, the one teacher walks out because she was totally against even giving the student a chance. She was afraid of it hurting there self confidence)
• The teacher had structural teaching. 
• If the students didn't participate in class, homework, tests = the chair, where they would have to sit in front of the class which was humiliating. (example: the girl that didn't participate had a lot of responsibility of raising her siblings, cooking, cleaning, etc. When she tried to do her work, her parent, the mother for example was so tired she had to turn off the light and she couldn't see to do the homework,etc.; today the student was sleeping and the teacher took the students hat off, but since the student knew the answer he allowed him to go back to sleep)
• If a student was late for class, the students would humiliate and the teacher would make rude comments. He didn't have time to allow for interruptions during class - there were children that wanted to learn. Attendance was very important in learning and getting the most out of the education.
• Liked to have total class participation (example: the students all participated for the AP Calculus test, but once accused of cheating they all stood up with the teacher and agreed to retake the test to prove they didn't do anything)
• When the teacher said he wanted to teach Calculus the following year - other facility didn't believe in the students. They already had them labeled as students that were not going to make it in the real world. (example: he is standing up for the students with the AP Calculus tests)
• Students were still having to convince the parents to allow them to take the class. They would rather them be at home and they were not helping them set goals.
• The school was locked up tight.
• One student walked out because she was humiliated that the teacher was using her personal life to entertain the class. But the teacher walks out to get her, he is there for her unlike the teacher Audre had that put her in the corner for breaking her glasses by accident, etc.;
• The student gets frustrated, the student said he is the dumbest, but the teacher steps in and gives them more challenges.
• The student was late for class because of taking care of grandma, the teacher wouldn't listen to excuses. Told student to get out. During dinner time the student showed up, he really wants to do this class.  By this you can see the teacher is making a huge difference in a students life.
• This teacher really cares, his wife states he works 60 hours a week and volunteers to work night;  schools. (example: even when he was laid up in the hospital, he had the nurse take him to the classroom)
• When the teacher didn't show up to teach class, the one student tried to take over. The students are worried about their teacher. The students start arguing.
• The new teacher steps in, the students are not happy about this. (example: the class was really down up until the teacher came back to class as a surprise.)
• When the teacher quizzes the students and they get the answer right he praises them, even if they don't know the answer, he makes them work even harder.
• Test results for the Calculus came back and it was announced that all 18 students that took the test, passed the test.
• The students gave the teacher an award at the press conference, the teacher was well liked and thought of in the school district. (in addition to giving the teacher an award, the kids also fixed up his VW bug for him)
• A letter was received in the mail about cheating on the test, they were labeling them too.
• Having received this letter really hurt the self esteem of the students. (example: the kids being pulled over by the cops, the other student upset about his car, etc.)
• The Principle and the testing committee questioned the children - accusing them of cheating. The students keep telling them they didn't do anything. They wanted those to confess, and having the teachers sense of humor, the students make the joke about getting the test ahead of time from his old man and he is decomposing in his locker.
• Just because the kids got done with the tests early and little multiple choice answer wrong - the department of testing feeling the students cheated. They want the kids to be retested - the teacher is saying NO WAY.
• The day of testing the students were very nervous, you could tell they didn't want to be judged.
•  Mr. Escalante was an outstanding teacher. 
• At the end of the movie it showed that at Garfield High School - as each year passed the student ratio that passed the AP Calculus test grew higher.