Beyond The Blackboard Reflection

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“Beyond The Blackboard” is a movie of 2011 and it is based on the book called “Nobody don’t love nobody” by Stacey Bess.
The story starts with short scenes about Stacey Bess childhood where we can see that her life wasn’t too easy. She got pregnant young and got married. But the main story starts when Stacey Bess was looking for a job, and this was her first job as a teacher. She imagined that her new school was going to be perfect, a normal school with books, tables, good and common kids; but everything changes when she started to drive to school and noticed that the neighborhood wasn’t good and there were full of homeless people, then she arrived school and saw the reality; a school in a shelter; without books, without an appropriate infrastructure,
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First of all, from the start of the movie when she went to the school and find out that wasn’t as she expected, the disappointment that she felt is something that maybe all of us are going to feel too, passing from the theoretical to the practice is such a important thing and maybe a little bit traumatic, especially when we are in front of vulnerable schools. Maybe, in that moment our motivation to become a teacher would falter and this movie shakes you and shows you that you can make a difference if you try. She shows her strength to her own children and a lection to the teacher from the whole world, as a teacher you should be strong; you should be creative and try once again. The first weeks Stacey almost gave up but she looked for new ways to reach her students, first of all she try to talk to managers of the state to help her with books and infrastructure for a new school, after that she noticed that nobody wanted helped her, she used her own method to make a better place to her students, that is what we should looked for as a teachers, maybe the managers of a school won’t help us with supporting the kids but a good teacher must be creative and that will help us to improvise with what we have in our …show more content…
The dedication of Stacey and her concern about the education of her students is something that every teacher should live with, being committed to students and its education it is totally important, that is the main objective of becoming teacher is educate people to live in peace and knowing how to deal with different issues of life, with self-confidence, with knowing and with freedom. That is what Stacey leaves in every students and it is shows with the new life of Danna at her new school.
An awesome movie that gives us hopes that as teachers we can make a change in a classroom. The movie is a little bit utopian because maybe the real Stacey has to fight even more to get what the kids wants, maybe we are not able to spend money as Stacey was able to do it, maybe we are not going to be support as she was by a principal, maybe in the real life everything is going to be much harder because the system doesn’t let you teach as it should be, but there is something that every teacher can and must give to their students, as Stacey did, love and make the students feel important and give them a hope that even though all the hard times it’s possible to change your reality and live better, and everything happened thanks to the education and the love of

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