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Rafe Esquith is an award-winning American teacher at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School, in Los Angeles, California, where he has taught since 1984. Many of his students, who are all from a community of poor and immigrant families, start class very early, leave late, and typically achieve high scores in standardized tests. Esquith has authored books about teaching and his annual class Shakespeare productions were featured in the 2005 documentary ''The Hobart Shakespeareans''. His teaching honors include the 1992 Disney National Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award, a Sigma Beta Delta Fellowship from Johns Hopkins University, Oprah Winfrey’s $100,000 "Use Your Life Award", ''Parents Magazine’s'' "As You Grow Award", National Medal of Arts, and Esquith was made an honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire. ==Life and career== A 1981 graduate of UCLA, Esquith began teaching in 1982 at Ivanhoe Elementary School. Two years later, he moved to Hobart, the second-largest elementary school in the United States. Most of the school's 2,000 students come from immigrant Central American and Korean families. According to a 2005 report on ''National Public Radio'', 90 percent of his students were living below the poverty level, and all were from immigrant families, with none speaking English as a first language.〔Trudeau, Michelle, ("Inner-City Teacher Takes No Shortcuts to Success" ), April 26, 2005, story, ''National Public Radio'' website, retrieved September 5, 2009〕 Esquith's fifth-grade students consistently score in the top 5 to 10 percent of the country in standardized tests. Many of Esquith's students voluntarily start class at 6:30 each morning, two hours before the rest of the school's students. They volunteer to come early, work through recess, stay as late as 6:00 pm, and come to class during vacations and holidays. Each April, Esquith’s students perform one of Shakespeare's plays as ''The Hobart Shakespeareans''. They have opened for the Royal Shakespeare Company, have appeared at the Globe Theater in London,〔 were hired by Sir Peter Hall to perform ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, and were the subjects of the 2005 documentary ''The Hobart Shakespeareans''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rafe Esquith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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