The Ron Clark Story Movie

 

Whether you are a teacher or a future teacher, I advice you to watch The Ron Clark Story movie because it relates to all of us. The movie is very inspiring because it reflects the true characteristics of a sincere teacher that dedicates his life for his students and their success. Here is a summary for the movie, hope you watch it and enjoy it as much as I did! 

The movie talks about an English teacher moves from his country, North Carolina, to New York City looking for his new dream job. After being honored in his country for his dedication, hard work and efforts, Mr. Clark decides to move on and teach the hardest class of Harlem School.  Before starting his new teaching job, Mr. Clark decides to meet some of the students and their families to have a closer look at the class he’s going to teach. His visits weren’t as he expected, however, he insisted on working with that hard class. When he entered the class, he was aware of the misbehaviors they’ll cause so he insisted on building the “one family” atmosphere among the class. He was told that this class was disruptive and that it is the worst class in the school and always has the worst scores but he didn’t mind. The students in his class were not living normally, one child, for example, was in foster care and got abused by his parent, and another child was the de-facto mom of her siblings because her mother works two jobs.

Through his energetic usage of phenomenal fundamentals for his classroom, extraordinarily creative preparing methods and undying devotion to his students and helping them adjust to their issues; Clark can have an astounding impact in the lives of his students. Mr. Clark tried to embed new useful techniques and captivating methods while working with his students; Not only he put rules for his class, but also, he convinced the students to follow the rules by various ways such as locking the door to oblige them to line up before going to lunch and so on. 

Although Mr. Clark faced lots of difficulties in letting students respect each other as well as him and other people in the school, because they were bullying other kids, gambling, and betting on when he will be quitting as many as other teachers, he didn’t give up. To grab their attention, he started by drinking a milkshake in front of them but to do so he bet them to stay silent and listen to him. Moreover, he came up with a rap song for the students to memorize that included the names of the US presidents in order; the students loved the song and started singing immediately after they heard it.

Even when he got sick and left the school for a few days, he insisted on videotaping the lessons and working with them as well. When he came back, he found that students’ progress was a little bit down, but Mrs. Clark continued with them the same way he started so they were able to get the highest scores in the final examination. He was very proud of each and every individual so rewarded them and they, in turn, did the same by making him their best teacher.

If we took a deeper look at the incidents of this story, we can notice that it is an inspiring tale of an energetic, creative and idealistic young teacher that each and every one of us, as teachers, parents or even individuals, should reconsider Mr. Clark’s character, techniques and determination.  The movie relates to the philosophies of education to a big extent where it reflects most of the aims of education in most of the philosophies as well as imaging the teacher’s role in it’s best compared to the philosophies.