Sunday, February 20, 2011

Monalisa Smile

This movie is very entertaining to me plus also educational. It taught me all the strategy that a teacher need to use to engage the students in their learning process. For example the teacher in this movie used pictures in order to engage students in discussions. She also encouraged the students to have more freedom in themselves and not just stick to the normal society's rules, for example, getting married after successful finishing the semesters. She showed pictures to the students about the roles of a woman and relate it to the students' life. Besides that, she also motivated the students in her classroom. One of her students wanted to do law and gave her the application form to pursuit her dreams.
        The teachers in of whom i know in the past, had some of this qualities in them while teaching us English. I remember my teacher used her facial expression to recite the poem she was going to teach us. Besides, she also showed us some videoclips to get our full attention towards her lessons. It was interesting.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Lean On Me.

Last Monday me and my classmates watched another movie titled " Lean On Me ". The movie was interesting but there was a lot of shouting and noise going on in the movie. Anyway , the movie was entertaining to me. It descibed the character and attitude of adolescents who are having disciplinary problems in school and how later the principal tries to educate and bring back the motivation to turn over a new leaf.
      As I am taking this B.Ed Tesl course now, it has certainly affected my thoughts and feelings towards educating the students in future. As a teacher I have to be more serious and strict in dealing with rebellious students. However, I still have to maintain a good rapport with them so that we respect each other. If I would want to relate this to the teachers in the past, I feel that my teachers in the past have done an excellent work in educating and motivating and disciplining the students who are stubborn or students with other problems matters such as financial problem or peer pressure even family conflict.
       One of the lesson that I have learnt after watching this movie is that sometimes in order to teach or educate a student, one must be able to challenge the students behaviour by making sure they follow the rules and be stern with them so that they become more obedient.