By Karen - 02 August 2021
"The Ron Clark Story" is a TNT TV movie starring Matthew Perry and adapted from the real deeds of American teacher Ron Clark. The film selects a typical experience of Clark alone coming to New York to teach in a school in the black area. It tells of his exemplary experience and dedication, teaching the worst class in the school into the best grade in the school.
The prototype Clark is a half-way monk when he is a teacher. He has a rich experience and should be an energetic and active thinking guy. After becoming a teacher, he explored a set of unique and effective teaching methods and achieved great success. He emphasized respect for students, encouragement, and good communication with parents. At the same time, he requires students to strictly abide by disciplines and norms, learn to respect others, in order to be easily accepted and communicated in school and society. In order to attract students' attention and interest in teaching, he used various methods. He wrote RAP songs about history, and sometimes even made a fool of himself. He wrote his educational experience into a book-The Essential 55. After the book came out, it became very popular and ranked seventh in the 2003 bestseller list in the United States. By the way, the first two books were "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". "And "The Da Vinci Code".
These teaching characteristics of Clarke above are all expressed in the film. The style of the film is quite popular and civilian, without any skills. Compared with some famous films that also talk about education, the artistry is much worse; it is not too deliberate to highlight some conflicts and focal points. It starts from setbacks and ends in success, which is quite ordinary. And typical. But such a movie without too much fancy will not be dull at all, because such a story naturally contains moving, and its meaning is not only the charm of the movie. After watching those famous movies, it may be a little flat, but it is still worthy of your touch and attention. Matthew Perry, who is well-known for his humor and comedy, shows quite restrained performance in this relatively serious movie. It should be said that the performance is still good. Like the style of the film, it is very popular and civilian, and a sense of intimacy naturally arises, which can easily be recognized by the audience.
The image of outstanding teachers is radiant and unforgettable. Their stories affect students who are hungry for knowledge and growth, but I hope they can affect teachers in general. They are excellent role models. They all possess excellent quality and noble character. More importantly, they treat students with patience, respect, trust, and treat all students equally. This last point is a very important point. It is rarely seen in reality. I think this is also a typical reason for how teachers educate "bad" students in movies.
In addition to educating students, good teachers have to deal with various restrictions and obstacles. The small ones range from uncooperative parents and stereotyped bosses to the social environment, education system, rights and interests, and so on. They will do their best to fight for freedom and rights. But in many cases, the lack of personal strength makes it sometimes too idealistic, and sometimes suffer serious setbacks or even failures. On the one hand, teachers are excluded and suppressed; on the other hand, students are the biggest victims. This not only has personal mistakes and mistakes, but also includes the epitome and misfortune of the entire era.
We hope that there will be more teachers like this; we also hope that more teachers can see such an example
