"My Reflection: The Freedom Writers Diary"

“A teacher must be devoted to his/her students”. This was seen in the movie “Freedom
Writers”, where a teacher who suffer to teach her students to have respect. A freshmen
students was disrespect to their teacher, named Mrs. Gruwell. Mrs. Gruwell is an
inexperienced teacher. Mrs. Gruwell faced with a big challenged when her freshmen
students showed her a high level of disrespect. Mrs. Gruwell and her students are hard
to understand with each other. While Mrs. Gruwell taught she developed different
strategies to boost them in taking part in class activities. The students in class was so
racial and only communicated with students of the same ethnic group. Mrs. Gruwell
showed great compassion and determination because the students have no interest in
school or in her but she still tried her best, she tried different methods or techniques to
convince her students. According to the “Knowledge is not generated within an
individual but rather is constructed through reaction with people and other objects
around, such as books.” Mrs. Gruwell’s technique to help the students love reading and
writing was providing journals for them. In this techinique, it is effective as all students
shared their thoughts, reflections and feelings through writing. In this movie shown me
that in order to become an effective teacher I have to explore some techniques or
methods that can clutch the students to participate in group activities and to show their
interest in school. Students can’t be neglected because at the end of the day the result
of it is having no ambition and low self-esteem. In this movie I realized that being a
teacher is not easy. I realized that our teachers is also finding a way or a method for us
to change our bad attitude. Our teachers are tired too, they are tired of teaching us
some good things but still they don’t give up on us. For me, when I’m a teacher I will
never give up to the things I think it’s hard for me to do. This movie is like we are having
some problems, problems came we don’t know it’s a blessing or a lesson but at the end
we realize that we helped people. Like Mrs. Gruwell I think it’s a blessing to her to help
students to changed. God gave her a challenged to help the students. Like I’m having a
problem or an experience in life, I write it in the paper as my diary because when we’re
writing we can write all our problems. Mrs. Gruwell don’t give up on her freshmen
students so that they finally graduated, like us when we have a challenges in life don’t
give up, at the end problem was already solved. All the sacrifices we have done are all
worth it.