Dead Poet’s Society is a movie about a group of upper-class rich kids and their new English teacher John Keating. The young adults’ career paths have been sketched out before birth by their over-powering, rich parents. John Keating faces the task of building a bridge of thought to direct each student to self-image, self-determination, and passion. He does this by breaking the traditional way and employing an innovative and effective teaching style.
Keating implemented modeling in to the classroom in a very unorthodox assertive way. To understand Keating’s approach, one needs to understand there is a common misconception with the method of modeling. People believe modeling is the same as demonstrating, but there is a great difference between …show more content…
According to Wikipedia, observational learning occurs through watching others and a result of such can cause a diffusion chain. “This basically occurs when an individual first learns a behavior by observing another individual and that individual serves as a model through whom other individuals learn the behavior, and so on.”(Wikipedia) Observational learning can inspire well-mannered behavior, but can also boost procrastination and even drug use. Examples of these positive and negative outcomes of observational learning can be understood through siblings. For example, if a younger sibling watches his/her brother receive an award for good behavior that younger sibling is more apt to mimic the same behavior. Observing an older sister smoke pot with no consequence can allow interest to build for a younger sibling; increasing the chance for the younger sibling to …show more content…
His style was much different than Dr. Hager’s, but it is important to understand neither one is necessarily better than the other. Both teachers’ method has their advantages, as well as disadvantages. Dr. Hager’s approach would be considered “traditional,” whereas Keating’s style is mentioned above (constructivism). Dr. Hager would lean more to textbooks and workbooks as learning material in the classroom, he would be more direct and not one to bend rules, or the curriculum for anyone. Dr. Hager’s value would be with the curriculum. Keating would use books, but also manipulative material – something tangible the class could touch and learn from hands on. Keating’s teaching method allows students to question the curriculum, to ask the questions, Keating himself asks questions. His method encourages this and values the student and not the
Keating implemented modeling in to the classroom in a very unorthodox assertive way. To understand Keating’s approach, one needs to understand there is a common misconception with the method of modeling. People believe modeling is the same as demonstrating, but there is a great difference between …show more content…
According to Wikipedia, observational learning occurs through watching others and a result of such can cause a diffusion chain. “This basically occurs when an individual first learns a behavior by observing another individual and that individual serves as a model through whom other individuals learn the behavior, and so on.”(Wikipedia) Observational learning can inspire well-mannered behavior, but can also boost procrastination and even drug use. Examples of these positive and negative outcomes of observational learning can be understood through siblings. For example, if a younger sibling watches his/her brother receive an award for good behavior that younger sibling is more apt to mimic the same behavior. Observing an older sister smoke pot with no consequence can allow interest to build for a younger sibling; increasing the chance for the younger sibling to …show more content…
His style was much different than Dr. Hager’s, but it is important to understand neither one is necessarily better than the other. Both teachers’ method has their advantages, as well as disadvantages. Dr. Hager’s approach would be considered “traditional,” whereas Keating’s style is mentioned above (constructivism). Dr. Hager would lean more to textbooks and workbooks as learning material in the classroom, he would be more direct and not one to bend rules, or the curriculum for anyone. Dr. Hager’s value would be with the curriculum. Keating would use books, but also manipulative material – something tangible the class could touch and learn from hands on. Keating’s teaching method allows students to question the curriculum, to ask the questions, Keating himself asks questions. His method encourages this and values the student and not the