Freedom writers

Freedom writers

A real live inner-city school teacher tells it like it is today, when it comes to the dangerous myths perpetuated in movies like Freedom Writers. While the ongoing problems of poor working conditions, low pay, and lack of respect plague the profession, teachers are expected to be miracle workers and heroes in a failing system. A system that leaves millions of children behind in wretched, schools located in war zones.
A true hero leaped off to be my best hero I ever watched. Her name is Erin Gruwell, whose passion to become a teacher is soon challenged by a group of Black, Latino, and Asian gangbangers who hate her even more than each other. When Erin begins to listen to them in a way no adult has ever done, she begins to understand that for these kids, getting through the day alive is enough -- they are not delinquents but teenagers fighting "a war of the streets" that began long before they were born. Erin gives them something they never had from a teacher before -- respect. For the first time, these teens experience a hope that maybe; they might show the world that their lives matter and they have something to say.
The teacher Erin Gruwell has the distinctive characteristics of all teachers was in the same school, she is gracious she was friendly with her student she gives them the respect that they never had, she is intelligent she solved the a racial incident occurred in her classroom through many solutions, she used the situation to create an ongoing dialogue amongst her students, many of whom were plagued by violence, poverty, and despair in their own lives and neighborhoods, and were in turn, at odds with one another. Recognizing their oppressed potential, Gruwell challenged her students in a way that they had never been challenged before. Also The students have learned from people of many backgrounds. Rather than studying literature and history from textbooks, through reading, And through journal writing they boldly confronted the violence and hatred that had so plagued their lives, this Miracle teacher turned a group of at-risk teens into best-selling authors. She’s faith in, and dedication to, her students, Gruwell restored hope in those who had lost it long before, and instilled a desire to pursue higher education in teens whose own neighborhoods would likely have dragged them down otherwise.
In my conclusion I really liked the story, I liked the way Gruwell developed her creative model of education that turned to be a story of success, I liked her way of teaching and encouraging her student to be the best and solve their problems together. And I summarize her creative of education into three-stage process:
1. Engaged her students by establishing a collaborative and supportive academic environment that will draw the students into the learning process, help them make connections between whom they are as individuals and who they are as students.
2. Enlighten the students by making them practicing different kinds of writing, she made them write in journals about their personal life and public speaking, and becoming critical thinkers.
3. Empower your students by bringing the outside world into the classroom, and taking their classroom into the world.

It is the kind of movie that encourages you to think out of the box and to believe that small actions can make a difference.