Matthew Perry as Ron ClarkBrandon Mychal Smith as TayshawnHannah Hodson as Shameika WallaceMicah Stephen Williams as JulioErnie Hudson as Principal TurnerMelissa De Sousa as Marissa VegaPatricia Idlette as DevinaJerry Callaghan as Ron Clark, Sr.Marty Antonini as HowardPatricia Benedict as Jean Clark

CHARACTER OF THE MOVIE

The story tells about a teacher who leaves his stable life teaching at an elementary school in his suburban North Carolina hometown, the school where he is appreciated by both his fellow teachers and his students for his innovative teaching methods which results in raising test scores.

SUMMARYOF THE STORY

Instead, he decides to look for a teaching job at a tough New York inner city school where he feels he can be more useful. Clark is drawn to an unruly class of sixth graders, the same one the teacher who quit had taught.

He's told that these students are the worst in the school and test at the bottom in standardized test scores. He teaches with innovative and creative methods, although at first all students don’t like him.

Clark's students have difficult family lives. One child is in foster care and gets abused by his foster parent. Another child is the de-facto mom to her younger siblings, as her mother works two jobs.

The children have bigger problems than not knowing grammar, and their problems may disturb more sensitive kids or kids who have been in similar situations. Then, Mr. Tuner, The principal doesn’t like Clark’s teaching methods.

He said “My school, my rules, my way”. He wants Mr. Clark just focus on the national exam and make the students from lowest class pass the exam. The kids disobey Mr. Clark, vandalize his classroom, bully other kids, gamble, and bet on when Clark will quit.

But the students eventually learn to treat Clark and themselves differently. They learn to believe in their academic abilities and to dream big.

In the class he tries to make the rule for his students. He almost gives up because his students hard to arrange but Marissa give him spirits. So, he back to teach again. Then, the students begin to like him.

One day he gets pneumonia but he decides to teach by video record. After back to the class, the student’s progressive go down. Clark thinks he was failed but he remains optimistic about their chance. After examination, Mr. Clark takes his student to see The Phantom of the Opera.

Then, his class become the best class and his students got a higher score than any other class in final examination and Mr. Clark was regarded by his student as their best teacher.

• Every students has a capacity and ability to learned in a different manner

• LOVE, PASSION, PATIENCE

MORAL VALUES

This movie is best for those who will become soon a future teachers like me. When I watched the movie I was able to learned something about how difficult to become an effective teacher because the movie inspired and give us the knowledge about how to survive in the worst class with the unruly students, give us inspiration about creative teaching’s methods, how to encourage students to dream big and take a risk and also the way we have to know well our students and their problems personally because the students are our family.

INSIGHT

I mean, as a teacher we have to know the things above well and touch the lives of our students we should not only after on the passing or high grade of our students but inculcating to their minds the true meaning of education. Moreover, the movie help me realized that teaching is far beyond the need for compensation and employment; it is not a career to work at but it is indeed a vocation to fulfill, because when I saw the movie Mr. Clark he is willing to sacrifice everything for the benefit of each and every student in his class.

Indeed, it is a challenge for me on how to become an effective 21st century teacher because we know that being effective is not really easy because we need first encounter lots of problem, trial and difficulty.

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