Professor Kate Poirier | D030 | Fall 2022
Tuesday, December 20
The person I chose to write about today us Jaime Escalante a Bolivian/American high school calculus teacher for Garfield Highschool. The reason why I chose him was due to the fact that he had a movie based off of him in 1988 called Stand and Deliver. In his home country Escalante taught mathematics and physics for 12 years before deciding to move to the US, after gaining his degree and teaching here and there for a few years he ended up in Garfield High a school on the verge of losing its accreditation. It was here that he taught AP Calculus and he was ridiculed for his harsh methods. For years administrators and parents frowned upon his methods, but Escalante kept teaching under the threat of being fired. In 1982 it was recorded that in Escalante’s class he had 18 students’ who passed the AP Calculus Exam, and this gave him the national spotlight. The reason why I chose Escalante was not only because I saw the movie but because the story shows his impact on an underperforming school and how important teachers are in our lives.
My name is Travis Harris (he/him) my major is Construction Engineering Technology and right now I am hoping to pass this class. My hobbies include playing games and just joking around, (I love to laugh) My favorite book would have to be Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief, although it is a children’s book this book had a huge impact on who I am today. A little more insight into the impact this book had on my life, the entire series fueled not only my love of Greek mythology but my love of reading in writing, the book forced me to question all that we believe is true and helped me to push the boundaries of my imagination. Although the book is fiction it made me want to creator/ designer and although I may not be a writer designing helps me to fulfill my dream. When I tell people this last thing about me, they are normally surprised, but I don’t like animals. I have just never been an animal person, but I do see why people like them. Thats me in a nutshell, plain old funny, game playing, non-animal lover Travis.
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