You Will Struggle, You Will Cry
“For the first time in my whole life, I know what I wanna do! And for the first time, I 'm gonna do it! Whether my father wants me to or not! Carpe diem!” (Haft, Thomas, Witt & Weir, 1989) This quote is from arguably the most popular and influential movie about schools and teaching. This popular movie, starring the late Robin Williams is a movie about these students at an all boys preparatory school who are used to the same strict, boring style of teacher and their way of teaching. They expected their English class to be the same way, traditional and boring. But this year their teacher is very unorthodox and uses methods not seen before by these students to teach and really connect with them on a level that …show more content…
Getting homework done or being to school on time or sometimes they don’t even have a meal like breakfast, that parent support or getting them to back you up” (A. Brighty, Personal Communication, 10/13/16). This made me think of The Dead Poets Society because Neil in the movie had little to no parent support and what he got from his parents was his dad telling him what to do. I think my teacher is right about this, I think she sees first hand that not many of this kids have parents that will do anything for them and support them in any endeavor they may go through. I think this may have a connection to the behavior they seem to portray in the classroom. If they have a parent at home that doesn’t show them the love and support that a child should have, then they will be less willing to cooperate and care about anything in school. I think in a household where there’s a lack of support, the student will not try as hard because the parent wont care enough to try to keep them on track and give them the encouragement they long for. If no one is going to hold them accountable for themselves and their actions and grades at home, these students wont hold themselves accountable because they don’t know what that is like. As a teacher I would like to be taught to be able to identify …show more content…
I think she is smart and very knowledgeable and it makes me want to talk to more teachers and get more perspectives on this profession so I can better myself and have many different outlooks on the reality of the career path I am taking. I think it is insightful to hear from my teacher and to see a different side of her and I would love to have even more deep talks like this with
“For the first time in my whole life, I know what I wanna do! And for the first time, I 'm gonna do it! Whether my father wants me to or not! Carpe diem!” (Haft, Thomas, Witt & Weir, 1989) This quote is from arguably the most popular and influential movie about schools and teaching. This popular movie, starring the late Robin Williams is a movie about these students at an all boys preparatory school who are used to the same strict, boring style of teacher and their way of teaching. They expected their English class to be the same way, traditional and boring. But this year their teacher is very unorthodox and uses methods not seen before by these students to teach and really connect with them on a level that …show more content…
Getting homework done or being to school on time or sometimes they don’t even have a meal like breakfast, that parent support or getting them to back you up” (A. Brighty, Personal Communication, 10/13/16). This made me think of The Dead Poets Society because Neil in the movie had little to no parent support and what he got from his parents was his dad telling him what to do. I think my teacher is right about this, I think she sees first hand that not many of this kids have parents that will do anything for them and support them in any endeavor they may go through. I think this may have a connection to the behavior they seem to portray in the classroom. If they have a parent at home that doesn’t show them the love and support that a child should have, then they will be less willing to cooperate and care about anything in school. I think in a household where there’s a lack of support, the student will not try as hard because the parent wont care enough to try to keep them on track and give them the encouragement they long for. If no one is going to hold them accountable for themselves and their actions and grades at home, these students wont hold themselves accountable because they don’t know what that is like. As a teacher I would like to be taught to be able to identify …show more content…
I think she is smart and very knowledgeable and it makes me want to talk to more teachers and get more perspectives on this profession so I can better myself and have many different outlooks on the reality of the career path I am taking. I think it is insightful to hear from my teacher and to see a different side of her and I would love to have even more deep talks like this with