School and Community Portrait What makes a good school? What makes a good teacher? Does this school help the student to achieve the American Dream?
Title: School and Community Portrait
What makes a good school?
What makes a good teacher?
Does this school help the student to achieve the American Dream?
Category: /Society & Culture/Education
Details: Words: 8107 | Pages: 29 (approximately 235 words/page)
School and Community Portrait
What makes a good school?
What makes a good teacher?
Does this school help the student to achieve the American Dream?
Category: /Society & Culture/Education
Details: Words: 8107 | Pages: 29 (approximately 235 words/page)
Abstract:
<Tab/>The following paper addresses three main research questions regarding Pleasantville High School, in Pleasantville, NY. I spent half a day, once a week for seven weeks observing for the most part a physics class taught by Mr. Greg Dimurro, where I kept notes in an observation log. The three questions I address are was it a good school, was Mr. Dimurro a good teacher, and whether or not the …showed first 75 words of 8107 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 8107 total…vast majority of students must be willing to learn and want to be successful. Only then will a school truly be able to be successful. Those three things are like pillars holding up a bridge. If you take one of them away, the bridge will come crashing down, just as a student's chance of achieving the American dream does when they are not given the same opportunity as a student who lives in Pleasantville, NY.
