ERIN GRUWELL
Writing for everyone is not something easy activity. Need a long process
that is able to be a skilled writer. Not only skilled in presenting material to
students, but the teacher should be able to be a skilled writer. There are
interesting things should we look at the figure of a Creative and Inspiring
capable of transforming the lives of their students through the activity of
writing, who is he? He Teacher Erin Gruwell.
The biggest challenge of his career is a must face the students of the
multi ethnic. They are involved in gangsters, drug trafficking, completely
trapped other social problems. Classroom situation is not very conducive. Each
student, each other, easily involved in the conflict, both in the classroom and
outside the classroom.
Type of curriculum teachers will not be suitable to deal with students
like this. On paper, the achievement of the curriculum will be difficult to
achieve. Small possibility of the use of lectures, discussions, questions and
answers, will be effectively used in the classroom. Because they do not have
the motivation to learn, do not be surprised if the presence of the teacher in
the classroom had no effect at all. Forcing students to want to learn, let
alone a harsh rebuke, address our heads could mugged pistol students.
Love will make the teaching profession Erin Gruwell remain a teacher for
"exceptional student" is. When frustration comes whack, Erin Gruwell
remains unyielding. One by one the lives of the students studied. He found
something important, almost all students have the same life story.
Line Games, Erin Gruwell product creativity, in fact, be able to present
a solution for the problems faced by students. Each of the students were
divided into two groups, and they stood and faced each other in a certain
distance. There is a red line that separates groups of students. Erin Gruwell
gives some questions. All questions closely related to student life, such as
"Have you ever been involved gangster? And friends who had been killed
because gangsters hanging out in the world ?, and other similar questions.
Every single question posed completed. Each student is required going one
step if the answer is "YES", and remain in place if the answer is
"NO". When all the questions posed to the students finished, it turns
out all right students face each other at the boundary line has been
determined. They looked at each other and realized that in fact behind the
different backgrounds they have experienced over the years, they still have a
common destiny. that's what makes them feel one brother, one community, have a
sense of camaraderie.
Reforming the future is much more important than lament and stuck in a
nightmare of the past, perhaps that is what is on the minds of the students
after participating Line Games. Erin Gruwell creative ideas to fruition.
When students already meulai open mind and feelings. Erin Gruwell give
each a blank book to all students. His job is simple, each student was told to
menulskan all events ever, and they are experiencing. Sometimes heated
discussions occur include Erin Gruwell and students to discuss some important
matters of the writing in the book student. Like a huge explosion, all students
become addicted to reading and writing. What is read and written by the
students? All about the lives of the people the same boat with them. Finally,
all the students had dared to have a dream. His dream is nothing but to live
better than their previous condition. Without realizing it, all the students
have become the great writer. The authors were able to tell the story of his
life, once the study is to reorganize themselves into a better person.
Toast For Change, an event held Erin Gruwell and all of their students to
mark the success of the students to change their lives for the better. There
are students who returned to the bosom of his parents after a long run away
from home. There are students who have left the world gansters. There are also
students who have chosen to live without drugs. Extraordinary.
The story of an inspiring teacher who is able to change the way students
are then documented in a film titled "Freedom Writers, Their Story Their
Words. Thinking Out of the Box ". Think and act outside the usual ways
that were able to change the situation for the better.
Unexpected if students Erin Gruwell able to become a great writer, at
least for consumption by himself. Writing seems to be the best therapy to
overcome the problems of their lives. Writing became a way of indicating their
true character. They eventually reconciled with life through writing
activities. Writing for the independence of their lives, free from the shadow
of a grim past, and stringing new hope for life in the future.
Line Games is a creative idea of a true teacher. Teaching students by
promoting a sense of empathy and making personal lives of students as a
learning resource, in fact, be the best inspiration for every teacher to be
able to teach effectively. The soul of creativity and inspiration of a teacher
seems to be always brings everything into I'M POSSIBLE.
Could the same thing be done our teachers? Or carried out by our own? The
answer could be "YES" to "NO".
Regards,
Success and Ikhlas Greeting.
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