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Dead Poetry Society, 1986, USA
Wilden Preparatory College adheres to the belief of "tradition, honor, discipline, excellence", and is known for its calm and dignified teaching style and high promotion rate. Parents and teachers strive for only one goal, that is, to promote students to prestigious schools.
John Keating, a literature teacher who graduated from the school, is full of anti-traditional spirit, and he uses romance, passion and experience to guide students into the temple of literature, so that students can know themselves, think about life, and pursue their dreams. Keating's teaching aroused strong resonance in the hearts of students, who gradually learned to think and explore independently, bravely find the way of life, and even violated the school rules, set up the Death Poetry Club, and sang in the cave!
In the film, Keating adopts experiential education and teaching methods, transforming the activity experience into the activity experience, and allowing students to exchange discussions and explain.
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Spring in the Cattle Herding Class, France, 2004
Conductor Pierre Moonzhi returned to his hometown for his mother's funeral, and his elementary school classmate Peppino gave him an old diary. This diary was written by Clement Matthew, Moonzhi's former music teacher, and it records the touching past of the relationship between teachers and students.
Matthew was a talented musician, but in the French countryside in 1949, he had no chance to show his talents and went to work as an assistant teacher at a boys' boarding school. The school was built for troubled teenagers and is figuratively known as the "bottom of the pond". Upon his arrival, Matthew discovered that the school's principal, Hasson, pursued an "action-response" management approach, with simple and crude methods, a penchant for corporal punishment of students, cold interpersonal relationships in the school, and obedient and contradictory behavior. Matthew found that students love to sing, so he formed a choir to open the closed hearts of students with music, and also discovered Mo Onzhi's musical talent, which made him embark on the road of music.
"What can I do for my students?" This is Matthew's question, and it is also a question that every educator and every person in society should ask themselves. Matthew stands in the student's shoes and achieves and develops the student. The film also deals with a discussion of the impartiality of educational discipline.
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"Hot Blood Teacher", 2006, USA, Canada
Based on a true story, Ron Clark teaches at Snowton Elementary School, a private school in his hometown, and for four consecutive years has won recognition from principals, colleagues and students. He could have gone on, but when he learned that there was a shortage of good teachers in New York's public schools, he gave up his comfortable job in his hometown and went to teach at Harlem Elementary School in New York City. The school is grade-based, he teaches a bad class in the fifth grade, facing many difficulties and challenges: the students in this class are mainly black and immigrant descendants, there are many problem students, the learning style is extremely poor, in the year before him has changed 6 teachers, the principal hopes that he can make the class achieve good results in a short period of time: "Test results are very important to me. Only then will I be able to keep my job. ”
After taking over, Clark repeatedly encountered a wall, under the encouragement of friends, he persevered, and finally established a good teacher-student relationship with students through many methods, slowly won the respect and trust of students, and guided students to abide by classroom discipline through the establishment of class norms, and improved student achievements by improving teaching methods. Under his careful instruction, the students began to study seriously and achieved unexpectedly excellent results.
If teachers want to better influence and help students, it is best to become "in a group" with students first, and teachers should not first position their work as "transformation" and "influence", but should first be positioned as "acceptance" and "participation".
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Detachment, 2011, USA
Henry Bass is a professional substitute teacher who often travels from school to school, looking at all kinds of students and teachers. This time he took a new job and taught at a community public school. The school is desperate because of student rebellion and poor management, and the teachers are suffering. Henry was provoked by the students in his first class, but he had a high talent for teaching, and the embarrassing situation was cleverly defused by him. Henry's teaching style aroused the interest of the students, and the rebellious students gradually developed trust in him and regarded him as an idol.
It is also in the relationship with students that Henry, who has never been able to get out of the shadow of his mother's suicide, realizes that life cannot be completely detached.
How to deal with student provocations? How do you make students willing to learn? How to guide students to face the problems in life, clarify their needs, and make value judgments and choices? Maybe in this film, you can find some answers.
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Stars on Earth, India, 2007
In the eyes of 8-year-old boy Isha, the world is mysterious and cute and full of colors, and he likes to communicate with this strange world in his own way, and a mathematical problem can evolve into a "star war" in his mind. He can see the world clearly, but he can't read the textbook. In the eyes of the teacher, he liked to be an enemy of books and did not want to make progress; in the eyes of his peers, he was the object of ridicule; in the eyes of his father, he was a troublemaker. So his parents transferred him to a boarding school that said that "even wild horses will be tamed."
At boarding school, Isha felt like being thrown into a strange and cold place. For him, homework was still difficult, he could not answer the teacher's request in poetry class, he could not distinguish verbs, nouns, adjectives in grammar class, and even drawing a sketch in the art class became a burden. All the teachers complained to him, thinking that he was lazy, dull, and stupid, and thus insulted him, laughed at him, and even physically punished him.
At this time, an art teacher named Nick came into his life. Nick, who has a similar childhood experience to Isha, is compassionate and caring, and better understands his situation and difficulties. After careful observation and research, Nick discovered that there was a dyslexia problem in Isha. In response to Isha's questions, Nick patiently and meticulously helped him. Under Nick's enlightenment, Isha's state gradually improved, and her academic performance slowly followed. In a school-wide painting competition promoted by Nick, Isha won the championship.
How to make students grow up healthy and happy? How do teachers learn from their students? The art of communicating with parents? This film brings more than just these thoughts.
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"Koar Class" 2008 Japan
The film is based on true events in Japan.
In the bright spring of April, the new teacher, Mr. Xing, came to the classroom of the second class of the sixth grade of a primary school, and he also brought a cute little pig. Teacher Xing put forward his own idea: "The teacher wants everyone to raise this piglet first, and then eat it." The students agreed in unison.
Other teachers have different opinions and opinions on Mr. Star's plan. Eventually, the principal supported Mr. Star's lesson plan. The children of the second class of the sixth grade built a house for the piglet, named it Little P, and cleaned the room and cleaned the feces for it regularly for a year. Around The Little P, various interesting and tense events alternately, and the students have more and more deep feelings for the Little P.
Little P grows up day by day, the children are about to graduate, and the time to eat Little P is approaching day by day. Around the question of how to deal with the little P after graduation, the children had a full discussion, and in the dilemma, the students received a profound education in bioethics and other aspects.
The curriculum reform described in "Little Pig Classroom" conforms to the ethics of curriculum reform and the norms of the teacher's profession, and has stronger practical and operational significance. With the help of "Piggy Classroom", we can discuss the issue of argumentation for curriculum reform and the problem of effective communication when parents oppose it, so as to create a good external environment for curriculum reform.
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"Children's Things", 2011, China
After graduating from Normal University, a young teacher, Lin Dongqing, came to Mingshi Primary School to serve as the class teacher of class five (4). The problem students in this class were relatively concentrated, and the principal reminded him to pay more attention, but the fledgling Lin Dongqing did not care, and was full of ambition for the challenges he was about to face, ready to show his skills.
However, the students' problems are varied, and Lin Dongqing's renovation plan has been repeatedly frustrated. So he asked for help from Teacher Ding, who was in charge of psychological counseling for students, and began to self-reflect, adapt and adjust. Through home visits, psychological counseling and other channels, Lin Dongqing began to recognize and understand the students in front of her, and taught according to the characteristics of each student, and finally won the love of students in respecting and loving students. In his teaching practice, he also walked the journey of growing up with the children.
The premise of education is to know and understand students, and effective education needs to be taught according to their aptitudes; educational research is first and foremost children's research, to deeply understand the specific and vivid children in front of them, and to explore the differences between them and their reasons.
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"Life Sounds Like You" 1995, USA
In the fall of 1964 in Oregon, the musician Gran Holland was forced to find a job as a music teacher at a middle school in order to earn money to complete his composition career. On his first day at school, the students, who had a poor musical background, gave him an embarrassing dismissal, and Holland's confidence was hit. After working for a while, the principal criticized Holland as unsuccessful in education. When his work encountered setbacks, his wife gave him patient persuasion and comfort; physical education teacher Bill Meister also actively influenced and changed Holland, which greatly changed his educational attitude and teaching style.
In his decades of music education, Holland has won the respect and love of his students and colleagues with love, trust and understanding. Before he retired, grateful past students gathered to pay homage to Holland in a grand farewell party.
From entry to retirement, Holland strives to find meaning in work and realize the value of life. This film presents the complexity and diversity of teachers' lives, and portrays a three-dimensional and rich image of teachers. If you're very busy and only have time to watch an educational movie, it's Life Sounds Beautiful Because of You.
Pedagogy in The Image: Understanding Education and Life from Film
Source of the article: Comprehensive compilation of self-created books "Pedagogy in Images: Understanding Education and Life from Film", by Chen Dawei, published by Chinese Min University Press in December 2017
Image source Douban