example of a good/bad teacher

1. Mr. Escalante, as depicted in the film Stand and Deliver embodies quite a few characteristics of what my ideal High School teacher would be. He is dedicated, relates and communicates to his students, and is willing to improve his craft. Mr. Escalante shows dedication in the scene where he sneaks out of the hospital in order to help and support his students before there AP Testing. He relates to his students by introducing real life situations into his curriculum,  and pushes his students to achieve above and beyond their own expectations.
2.Mr. Escalante proves to be a horrible example for Dan Brown's paper What Makes a Great Teacher? He did not have time to "learn the ropes", in fact he jumped straight from being a computer science teacher to a math teacher. During the scenes involving the staff meetings it is pretty clear Mr. Escalante had no "collaboration among the colleagues" In fact they refused to allow calculus in the curriculum and Mr. Escalante was forced teach Calculus as extra curriculum. Mr. Brown stresses teacher/parent relationships and in Stand and Deliver Mr. Escalante receives a lot of opposition from parents who did not have faith in their children. The only aspect of Dan's idea of a good teacher that Mr. Escalante embodies is dedication. Mr. Escalante went out of his way to ensure the students that had the "ganas" the drive to achieve succeeded.
3.Sir Ken Robinson does not directly state a criteria for good teaching, but I believe Robinson would idealize an individual who fosters a childs inner capabilities, and pursues their curiosities as oppose to caging it with rigid study.
4.I am not one to put words in other peoples mouths, especially not to attempt to perceive how someone else would/should feel about another person. But for the sake of this exercise I am sure Sir Ken Robinson would have a mixed review of Jaime Escalante. Mr. Escalante is a fairly rigid teacher, whose take no crap or get out attitude does not foster curiousity or imagination. On the other hand Mr. Escalante reaches out to students in a deep way, he finds strong relations between his math problems and his students every day lives.