I'm sure you are all feeling overwhelmed, but we are almost finished!! There are only a few more new assignments left. I realize that it is difficult to get everything completed in such a short amount of time, but y'all are doing great!
Left Over from Last Week: Finish your Inspiration/Kidspiration graphic organizer and your collaborative copyright assignment!
This week: Tuesday I will go over the narratives again and everyone should write the narrative for NETS I and request feedback (you should also be uploading your assignments as artifacts on TaskStream). I will also walk you through how to use iMovie and you will create a 30 second movie set to music(Please bring headphones if you have them!!). We will also discuss your social justice movie and plan on some time to film! On Thursday, we will work on the social justice movies and finishing up any unfinished work. I will also post an excel assignment that you will be able to complete on your own.
Journal 7 & 8 & 9: You may search L&L, T.H.E. Journal or any other appropriate site to find an article on something that relates to technology and education. You can try this article from Slate magazine, "In Your Face," by Christopher Beam. You could also try this one from Slate: "Google Spy," by Michael Agger. For #9, you're on your own ;-)
This Week's Question: What is your all-time favorite teacher movie and why?
10 comments:
My all time favorite teacher movie would have to be Dead Poets Society. Robin Williams stars in this movie as an inspritational teacher who changes the lives of conformity in his students by poetry and literature. This movie is soooo good! It will defiantly make you cry. Other favorite movies are Rudy, Lean on Me, Kindergarten Cop, and Dangerous Minds(some aren't about teachers but do take place in school).
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My all time favorite teacher movie is Hardball. It doesn't really take place in a school setting but it does demonstrate how hard life can be for most kids living in low income housing projects. The one thing I liked most about the movie is how a group of underprivileged kids help change a man (Keanu Reeves) who is sinking deeper into booze and gambling. In the end, Reeves is inspired and redeemed by coaching a little league's baseball team and along the way the kids help him break his bad habits and give him a better focus in life.
I think my favorite teacher movie would have to be Billy Madison. I think it does an excellent job of illustrating the value of staying in school and persevering through the difficult times (like no snack packs). Like Billy said: "back to school, back to school, to prove to dad that I'm not a fool." I think that really sums it up.
I would have to agree with aschmitz3, my favorite teacher movie is also Dead Poets Society. I think it is one of Robin Williams' best performances ever.
Summer School, starring UCLA star football player (and Nike shoe recipient for life) Mark Harmon. This movie is directed by Carl Reiner (yep, thats right, Meathead's dad) and is just funny and silly.
I think any of us that have had an unexpected "change of assignment" or have worked with a challenging student population can relate....it might not be a profound film, but it does have a way of making a teacher in a difficult situation feel some commeraderie!
It would have to be a tie between Fast Times At Ridgemont High and the Breakfast Club. There is an excellent juxtaposition here between teacher/student relations in Fast Times juxtaposed against administrator/student disciplinary relations in Saturday detention in the Breakfast Club. Both movies examine American High school culture, attitudes and learning situations both in and out of school with good character development throughout—I recommend these two movies for anyone that hasn’t already seen them.
I would have to say my favorite movie is Lean On Me. I always love to see the turn around in the kids once they know someone cares about them. I do want to give honorable mention to Kindergarten Cop. "No I don't have a tumor" is one of my favorite movie lines.
Since I do work at a police department, I would have to say Kindergarten Cop. I am sure we are all going to have our good and bad moments when we first start teaching, just like Arnold did:)
By far, my all time favorite teacher movie is Dead Poets Society with Robin Williams in the lead role. I still remember seeing it in the theater when I was something like 11 years old. The movie grabbed me from the beginning and I enjoyed everything about it. It made learning seem like a noble thing to do. It also made teaching seem that way. Robin Williams' character was who I wanted all of my teachers to be. He was different, fun, and energetic, but he still got the points of his lessons across. The movie was excellent from start to finish and that ending, admittedly, made me cry.
Forget that worthless "Half Nelson" movie...
For me, the teacher movie that takes the cake is Mr. Holland's Opus.
I really don't care for Richard Dreyfus but I swear I cried like a little baby in the theater. I like how you see how his life and relationships with his family and students changed over time, like forrest gump or something.
I mean, it's pretty twisted, giving a music teacher a deaf son, but when he signs and puts on that light show to the John Lennon song for him, it's pretty damn poetic.
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