Transforming for Success
In order to truly succeed student need the help of a mentor to reach such level of success and achievement. Having a mentor will shape the student you want and should become. In two books that I read named Push by Sapphire and What a Coach can teach a Teacher written by Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade there is a very important mentor in each. In the book Push there is a school program called Each One Teach One. A teacher named Ms. Rain teaches students in a very positive manner. She does whatever it takes for her students to learn and succeed. Ms. Rain teaches her students in many ways. She starts teaching her students from the bottom which is what they do not know yet, and then finally little by little her students begin to reach a high level of education. In the book What a coach can teach a Teacher, the author Jeff Duncan-Andrade is the mentor in a school program called The Lady Wildcats Basketball Program. He is a coach for a high school basketball team, but realizes that he has to be more of an adviser to guide his students to succeed in their education rather than just coaching his team to succeed in just games alone. In order to do so, he enforces many techniques so that his team learns more than only wanting to defeat their opponent teams. He teaches them the importance of education. The teachers in both stories teach in such a method called the problem posing method of teaching. This method was introduced to us in the book Pedagogy of the Oppressed written by Paulo Freire. He states that problem posing method is when a teacher enforces critical thinking into their teaching so that the students can tie in their creativity while they learn. Freire believes that such method should be put to use rather than the old traditional method which is simply handing out information and expecting the students to learn it without further detailed information. The students who have completed each program end up with knowledge they never before expected...