Here Comes The Boom Analysis

During my early years of school, it is fair to say that I was a handful. I could never sit still and focus throughout the entire duration of a lesson. There was not a day that went by that I did not get reprimanded by a teacher- usually for talking or disrupting the class. It was not because I wanted to be an obstreperous student, I simply lost focus of what was being taught on the board. Usually within the first ten or fifteen minutes, I grasped the concept but still had to sit through the next forty-five minutes of the teacher trying to lead the other students to grasp it through redundant examples. In fourth grade, however, I finally found a teacher that understood- Ms. Marin. Ms. Marin saw past the troublemaker persona that I had been dubbed throughout …show more content…
In the film Here Comes the Boom, Scott Voss, is a high school biology teacher who has completely lost his passion for education. When confronted about his lack of enthusiasm, Voss says, “But I was teacher of the year.” But it turns out, it had been ten years since that award. It was not until he set out to help his colleague and friend, Marty, save the school music department that he regained it. In order to save the program, Voss begins training as a mixed martial arts fighter, despite the ridicule he receives for attempting such a thing at his age. He preserves through it, though, and wins the champion belt of the professional fighting league at the end. But it is not his fighting success that makes this movie significant, it is the regaining of the passion he once lost. One day in class, Voss stands up on his desk and begins acting out the biological function they were meant to discuss that day. His class was in complete shock but they absorbed the information like never before. Child-centered learning is not the only key to success in the classroom, having an engaged and exuberant teacher to guide the way can make just as much of a