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THE RON CLARK STORY FILM ANALYSIS

SUMMARY “The Ron Clark Story” follows the inspiring tale of an energetic, creative and idealistic young teacher who leaves his small North Carolina hometown to teach in sixth grades students in a New York City public school that is not only the lowest performing class in the district but also dealing with a range of demographic backgrounds. Through his passionate use of special rules for his classroom, highly innovative teaching techniques and an undying devotion for his students and his ability to help them to cope with their problems, Mr. Clark is able to make a remarkable difference in the lives of his students.

CHARACTERS & CHARACTERISTICS Smart, caring, unyielding, compassionate, innovative, creative and passionate in teaching

Unruly, loud, brave, spirited leaders, mothering nature

Tough-minded, hard-spirited, has spatial intelligence, brave, artistic, indifferent student

Mr. Ron Clark

Shameika Wallace

Tayshawn Mitchell

CHARACTERS & CHARACTERISTICS shy, quiet, smart, bookworm, lack of confidence to strive in studies, ambitious, the only one who likes Mr Clark.

Class clown, bad in math and count, troublemakers, like to gamble and steal, a skilled card player

Selfish, tactless,

Badriyah

Julio Vasquez

Principal Turner

ISSUES

Culturally Diverse

Family Concerns

High Expectations

Community

School

Shameika is the

Showcase a principal

Concerns

Mixture of different

de-facto mother to her

who only cares about

School administrators

culture and ethnic

younger siblings, as

getting high test score

was not concern about

(African American,

her mother works to

instead of considering

the students’

American, Latino and

job. While, Tayshawn,

what students can

background and did

Indian). Badriyah has

a kid from foster care

really do.

not take any actions

been bullied since she

get abused by his

except criticize them

was new in that town,

foster parent

by the way they

thus make her lacks of confidence

Vygotsky Sociocultural Theory Lev Vygotsky (1978), stressed the importance of child’s cultural background as an effort to the stages of development. Within ‘The Ron Clark Story” Mr. Clark develops a professional teacher-student relationship with his students through the usage of selecting and applying appropriate teaching strategies and educational psychology learning theories, that strategically develop and scaffold student learning within their Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) accordingly.

behave

He writes a rap song for his students which incorporates

historical

information

about

past

American Presidents which is rap part of teenagers culture during that era. He also learn to use ‘–izzle’ slang to nickname the students which is part of rap culture in 1970. Within these sections of the story it evidently show, how a teacher is required to scaffold student learning within their ZPD. The song showed his students that he cared about them and believes in them, by taking the time to understand who they are, what they were interested in, how they learnt best and what they wanted to achieve.

Conducive Classroom 1.

This scene shows that teaching is not only a face to face communication between teacher and students. By using technology as the medium of teaching and communication with students could increase the quality of teaching learning.

2.

Mr. Clark creates a conducive classroom environment by renovates the classroom and put poster boards, crafts and inspirational quotes around the room to make the classroom an inviting place for promoting interaction and much welcomed feeling of togetherness. He also set rules during the first day of his teaching which is ‘We Are Family’ as to promote respect among each others

Conducive classroom environment involves two way interactions between students and teachers. This type of classroom environment stimulates learning and makes both the instructor and students feel satisfied, which eventually leads to effective learning process. Ron Clark used different techniques and strategies to gain the students interests. He start over the grammar lessons so that they can learn better in further learning of English subjects, by then, he chugging a carton of chocolate milk every 15 seconds to make them stay focused to his teaching.

Within this story, Ron Clark adapt to create conducive learning environment by the physical surroundings of the classroom with photo of the students and motivational phrases to help encourage the students. He also observed the students’ behavior clear and consistent and create special rules to shaping their behavior, thus create conducive learning environment. He observed them, discovered their strengths, and then offered encouraging comments. It didn’t seem to make much of a difference at first, but these efforts slowly softened his students to a point where they trusted him. It is essential for teachers to recognize strengths of their students and acknowledge the theory of different individuals. By doing so it can gives them confidence that they can succeed in the future.

Jean Piaget Constructivist Theory Mr. Clark was able to make his class’s learning experiences engaging and relevant, so that they could connect to the content and concepts being taught for the State Exam, thus, creating new schemas. As experiences happen and new information is presented, new schemas are developed and old schemas are changed or modified. Mr. Clark taught the students in an easy form to make learning process is fun and engaged with students’ interest. Aside from Presidents Rap, in adapting and assimilation, Mr. Clark teach Math lessons to Julio with cards since Julio’s interest in betting and gambling....