The Ron Clark Story Movie Review
The Ron Clark Story movie is the movie that tells about teacher from a small town, who moves to New York City and tries to make a difference in the lives of his minority students to show their real potential. The character of Ron Clark in the movie is a person who has his own principle and passion of helping others. It can be seen when he decides to leave his comfort zone to try something new in helping people in need. Clark is a risk-taker and has confidence to make things work. He chooses the messy class with problematic students instead of the good one. It shows that Clark is a confident person and also a risk-taker. His confidence can be seen when the woman tell him that he will not be able to teach those kind of students, but he says “they are gonna love me”.
In doing his profession as a teacher he is a patient teacher and he is always ready to face any kind of condition. For example in the scene when the school head master offers him to start working in the next two days but he says “i’m ready now”. His patience can be seen from the scenes when he keeps trying to make the class more discipline by using many ways, even the way that force him to act like a kid. He is also a responsible person, shown when he gets sick and he cannot come to the class, but he records himself explaining the material through the video recording that can keep his students learning. He even comes to students’ house to find out about their problem and tries to help them.
As a community member, he is a very kind person. He is so helpful. I actually do not really know about how Ron Clark is as a community member, because the movie does not really shows how he is like as a community member. However, I think he is a kind person. I saw in the scene when he interacts with other people, he speaks or acts nicely. For example, when he meets the lady whe the rain falls, he tries to give her the umbrella. I honestly forgot about another scene tha shows him a good person as a community member, but I think from the way he treats his students, that is what he is in community too.
If I were him, I would probably not as patient as him in facing the students like in the movie. It is lucky for him because when he almost gives up, there is a push not to give up from someone whom he interest with. I would probably give up and nobody pushes me and gives me a spirit to do a bigger effort, then I would finally end up with nothing. So, in doing something, someone need a support from somebody else to prevent giving up.
For me, to conquer someone, we have to win their heart first, and then they will follow our direction. If I were the main character in the movie, I would keep doing something nice that can win students’ heart first. One of the strategies that I would probably do is making the students believe in their capability. For example, price them if they do something positive to build their confidence and self esteem. It is because I believe that reinforcement as Skinner stated in his behaviorism theory is one of good ways to do in the class.
The main characteristic that the teacher should have for me is passion. By having passion someone will build his/her confidence, patience, and hard work to reach the goal, and that is for teacher too.
