Group work

The scene in Chalk where the gm. teacher talks to the other teacher about letting one of the students into class late can relate back to what Gatto says in his article "How public education Cripples our kids and why". It can relate to Gatto because he talks about how students are being taught in a way that makes them easier to control. When Gatto talks about "the adjustive and adaptive function" where "schoools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority" it can be related to how the gym teacher is being very strict about students being late to class, even when the student runs in as the bell is ringing. 

 

Freire

 

When the history teacher in Chalk is talking down to his students, basically telling them that they can't be smarter than him when he acknowledges that one of the students might know a little more than him about a certain subject it is reminiscent of how Friere talks about students being fed information by the teacher who knows everything. According to Friere's article "The Banking Concept of Education" in school the students are supposed to learn from the teacher and memorize what they are told. 

 

Rose

 

In Chalk, in the scene where Mr. Lowery visits the home of one of his students who kept bringing his phone to class, the mother basically tells Mr. Lowery how to teach his class, how to make them respect and listen to him, it can be related to Mike Rose's article "Resolutions someone should make for 2011". In number four of his resolutions "To stop looking making the standardized test score the gold-standard of student achievement and teacher effectiveness.  In what other profession do we use a single metric to judge goodness? imagine judging competence of a cardiologist by the average of her patients cardiograms" So in this resolution he talks of competence as a resolution in teaching, and success should be measured by the knowledge learned by the class as a whole. In Chalk Mr. Lowery succeeds in his class by learning how to teach in general, and gaining the respect of his student by the end of the year. 

 

Black

In chalk, the teacher Mr. Lowerly, is terrible at his job. he cant keep his classroom under control and as no order. he freaks out and goes to the extreme on some intensives, like when the kid's cell phone goes of and he freaks out and sends the kid out of the classroom. In the Daily Show, Black explains how people who would volunteer are necessarily qualified for the job, and like most teachers are not qualified for the job.