In many fictional narratives, teachers are displayed as prominent figures that influence and affect the behavior of their students, and this influence can be either positive or negative, depending on the narrative. There are fictional narratives that represent teachers as life changing figures in the students’ lives by the way in which the help students gain confidence. An example is Mr. Keating in the film Dead Poets Society. There are also narratives that depict teachers as stale figures that result in bored and uninterested students. An example is the economic teacher in the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Fictional narratives of teachers create interesting characters and plots, however these narratives oversimplify student learning by focusing …show more content…
None of the student’s in the class participates to answer one of the many questions he asks the class. While hearing his monotone voice lecture on economics, the camera focuses on individual students. The students in the classroom are shown as completely uninterested by staring blankly into the chalkboard, with one student arising from a nap. The lack of interest that the students show while the dull teacher lectures reveals to viewers that the attitude of teachers determines the way in which students behave. The influence that boring teachers create an uninterested group of students is dangerous for a student’s effort in class. For example, a student begins his first day of school, and in his first class, the teacher begins to speak in the same monotone voice that he heard from the economics teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. This student would begin to emulate the behavior that the students in the film had, and would begin to act uninterested like the students in the …show more content…
It creates influential teachers who impact the lives of their students, and creates entertaining and dynamic teachers for audiences to be entertained by. An imperative aspect that fictional narratives do not accomplish is the aspect of student learning. It is hard to blame entertainment companies for not showing teachers teaching subjects similar to the way in which students are taught in real life. It would not be entertaining. Movies cannot show a teacher lecture on Hamlet for 90 minutes and go through the effort that students must exert to understand major themes of the play. Instead, movies create teachers that have a purpose and possibly create conflict and drama. Unfortunately, the need for fictional narratives to be entertaining undermines the difficult aspect of learning, where learning is simplified and the process of learning is not imperative to the lives of students. This is not to say that films and television shows that depict teachers as heroes should be shamed, but it is important to recognize the influence these narratives have on students. If there were no fictional narratives that would influence students to rely on teachers for their learning and determine their effort, would school become more effective? Without the existence of fictional narratives of teachers, students would not have the idea that teachers are the prominent figures in their learning, but that their learning is built on a
SOULS OF SONG TRA BONG Sitting on our mama’s lap, we’ve always heard stories of people who’ve had hard times in their lives; first of those who had to fight with a monster just because they didn’t listen to their parents, then as we grew up, those who had to leave school to save the world from those with malevolent intentions. But at the end, a story was a story, and those people killed the monsters, never did something without their parents’ approval, and turned back to school to get a master’s degree; just to convince us kids that everything that was in a story was the right thing to do to, and the characters we read, were heroes that would never make mistakes. Growing up this way, I had an implicit assumption that a character had to show heroic behaviors to have an impact on me.
How are teachers and pirates related? In this book, “Teach like a Pirate”, Author Dave Burgess, sets out to show the reader how teachers can change their outlook to increase creativity and engagement. Burgess provides inspiration for teachers and practical strategies they can use in their classroom. The book is split up into three parts that help the reader understand what it means to teach like a pirate, how to create effective and interesting lessons, and how to become a better teacher.
An important point I learned after reading Holler if You Can Hear Me by Gregory Michie is that teachers should care about their students because students will learn more if they know you care and then they will care to learn . Mr. Mitchie believes his students don’t care enough to learn about sexism, but the truth was that they were tired of spending 2 weeks on the same lesson. Mr. Mitchie will then get angry at his class and tell them that if they didn’t care to learn then he wouldn’t make them. In another instant a teacher named Miss. Reilly was tired of her class not listening to her that she threatened to quit, but a student named Samuel wrote her a letter and told her not quit.
IPTS 1C: understands how teaching and student learning are influenced by development (physical, social and emotional, cognitive, linguistic), past experiences, talents, prior knowledge, economic circumstances and diversity within the community Performance Activity 22: How does the teacher relate content to students’ lives? Ms. Boerema relates content to students; lives by asking students questions relating to students’ lives. The strategy she uses is relating content to prior knowledge. An example of this is asking a question relating to the Outsiders, “Which one of your parents are you most like? What similarities do you share?”
INTRO: Iconic 80’s movie The Breakfast Club is our inspiration for this dialogue. When this group of high school delinquents was assigned to write an essay during detention on who they were, the group sparks up the conversation of personal identity, ultimately discovering themselves. The scene opens with the students serving their detention sentences in the Library.
The Breakfast Club is a movie centered on five high school students who meet in Saturday detention. During detention, the students realize that they have more in common than anticipated. The students first bond over their hatred of the teacher in charge. To pass the time, the students disobey the teacher, do drugs and damage school property. However, the rebellion that made The Breakfast Club popular would not have been approved by the Hayes Code.
Cult films are defined by the existence of a small continued “cult” fanbase around a film with lesser commercial success. These fanbases often have traditions for audience participation during the film1, extending from call-out responses to lines in the film to throwing things towards the screen at specific moments. These viewing traditions can have some variations in different areas, but many exist across the fanbase. Viewing traditions are also very much so a social thing- one would not engage with the film in this way outside of a group setting. Perhaps the most well-known cult film is The Rocky Horror Picture Show, whose cult-like fanbase has graduated into popular culture.
Sociology Analysis Paper Sample Analysis: The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club is a film detailing a Saturday intention involving five very different students who are forced into each other’s company and share their stories. All the students are deviant in their own way and eventually are able to look past their differences and become friends. The film also offers detailed observations of social sanctions, peer pressure, control theory, and the three different sociological perspectives. The first principle seen in the film is a stigma, which is an undesirable trait or label that is used to characterize an individual. Each of the characters is associated with a stigma at the start of the film.
Mike Rose shares his personal story to the public in “I just wanna be average”, as he reveals the many flaws within the educational system of a high school in an economically depressed neighborhood in Los Angeles. He effectively directs his arguments towards both educators and parents by utilizing emotional and logical appeals. By convincing the audience to fear that children placed on remedial tracks are being hindered rather than assisted, the author causes both awareness and a feeling of duty to change the way we handle teaching children. Rose presents his argument by aiding the reader through the eyes of his younger self as he retells the story of his years in high school.
The Breakfast Club portrays elements of adolescent development very well. In this stage of our lives we are trying to figure out who we are. Some of us may explore different identities and there are others that just do what others tell them to do. The movie depicted role confusion in each of the characters. It also talked about peer pressure and how it influences how we act.
Dirty Dancing is a classic movie from the 1980s that has many sociological factors that may be overlooked. It was a low budget film by a new studio called Vestron Pictures and it became a box office hit. It was directed by Emile Ardolino and starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey as the leads, and featuring Cynthia Rhodes and Jerry Orbach. The movie starts off with narration by the main female character a 17 year old named Frances Houseman but her nickname is Baby which everyone calls her.
People of Today (A Discussion on Modern Characters I Think Should be in General Prologue.) People all over the world have different personalities and different characteristics. Different countries, and different societies shape people to have certain characteristics and values. During the 12th century this was still the case about society. People fit into different characteristics and different social Statues.
The Social Penetration Theory is founded by objective theorists Irvin Altman and Dalmas Taylor. Social Penetration theory is applied in our lives because each day we meet someone new while developing relationships and personal connections with people overtime. The Social Penetration Theory is the idea that relationships can become more intimate through the amount of mutual self-disclosure. In John Hughes’ 1985 film, The Breakfast Club, the cast displays the social penetration theory when five students begin not knowing one another until the end of detention. Due to the amount of effective self-disclosure, this group of high schoolers have become friends.
Students may not know it is a fiction story and feed off the different stories facts. Students may also get
Teachers have always been portrayed in a positive light. They are usually portrayed as dedicated, caring, attractive, intelligent, and of course as the hero of the day. In the media, there are usually three types of teachers which are the inspirational, lazy, or negative teachers. The two types of teachers that are not shown are the ordinary teachers who work in a realistic classroom. In the movie “Matilda,” a six-year-old girl named Matilda Woodworm has a great learning ability with a strong sense of acting independently, but her parents refuse to send her to school.