Jaime Escalante has a steady job but left it for a lowly position math teacher at James A.

Garfield High School. Knowing that the school is where rebellion runs high and teachers are
more focused on discipline than in academics, he is determined to change the system and
challenge the students to soar high in excellence. Mr. Escalante or Kimo, has a bladder cancer.
But despite on what he is going through he managed to be an effective teacher to his students
and made them learn a lot and be dedicated on passing the examination.

The students in Garfield High School demonstrate no discipline. Most of them don't have any
aspiration to learn specifically the students Mr. Escalante are teaching calculus. Mr. Escalante
was able to convince the students and got their attention by adopting unconventional teaching
methods and conveying the necessity of math in everyday living. One teaching strategy that Mr.
Escalante uses is differentiated instructions. Differentiated instruction stimulates creativity and
helps students understand ideas at higher levels of thinking than teaching through rote
memorization alone. Typical rote learning is the process of memorizing information based on
repetition. Rote learning enhances students' ability to quickly recall basic facts and helps
develop foundational knowledge of a topic. Maybe, in the past school year in Garfield High
School the teacher are giving the students the rote learning, where the students possibly
become bored with acquiring lessons in that kind of process. Students typically wants to explore
ideas and rote learning does not link between new and prior information. Trial and error have
been used in the process in motivating the students to cope up with the lessons. he tries to find
ways to make it relate to their own lives so that they can understand it better. An example of
this is when he brought in apples for everyone and cut certain sized slices out of the apples.
Since the students were learning about fractions, he asked them how much was missing from
each of their apples. Instead of lecturing to them about fractions, he brought in visual aids to
help them see and feel what they were learning about. Using the apple work effectively for Mr.
Escalante. Relating the lessons in real life can make the students motivated because meaningful
learning is learning that is both relevant to a student's life and aims to achieve deep
understanding through the contextualization of the knowledge with prior knowledge and
experience. In this way students have familiarized with the lessons they are taking. The conflict
of the film is when the students were accused of cheating in the examination. Mr. Escalante
strongly believe that his students would ace the AP examinations without cheating that is why
he fought for them. After fighting he decided that he would help prepare the students for the
exam once again to prove that they can take it and achieve a similar score. At the end, the
students proved that they not cheat and still attain their previous scores in the AP examination.

Mr. Jaime Escalante shows how a good teacher can inspire his or her students and how
rewarding it is to be challenged, as well as how eager students are to be challenged. He tells his
students, the faculty at his school- and all of us, really- to always believe in ourselves and in
others. Stand and Deliver is, indeed, a constructive movie which has delivered its messages very
well. The feeling of achievement is what a person can be motivated. The feeling of success is
what a person is inspired to be more. However the person behind all this success an
achievements is more than grateful for all the success and achievements his or her students are
having. driven by their passionate commitment to a set of core values and belief, to
shape and share with others a creative new vision of positive change in their
professional domain and socio-organizational setting is what a teacher should
possessed. Mr. Escalante can be a transformational leader for he inspires his students to
achieve extraordinary outcomes.