The Ron Clark Story.

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 a New York City public school.
As a future teacher of English, this movie has inspired and enlightened me in so many ways.It teaches me that to be a dedicated teacher is never simple. In the movie, Ron Clark teaches one of the worst schools in Harlem. A school where violence and racism is an everyday issue. Being a dedicated teacher, he chose to teach the worst class, believing that he could guide those students to excellence. This shows the burning passion that Ron Clark has for teaching. This passion should be shared by all teachers. By doing so, teaching will be both a fun and a very rewarding career.
This movie also taught me to believe in my students capability to learn and change. Ron Clark never lost faith in his students despite being discouraged by all parties. This result in him accomplishing what he set out to do in the first place, which is to change a batch of academically poor students for the better.
Overall, this is a very inspiring movie. This movie has taught me so so much about the teaching profession. Besides that, it has also become one of my favourite movies of all time.

Arranged marriage?? No, thank you.

This topic was brought up during class and we were told to give our opinion regarding this notion.
Personally, I am not a fan of arranged marriage due to a few reasons. First and foremost, I believe it is necessary for one to be responsible to find his or her own significant other. This will result in appreciation of one towards another. I doubt that an arranged marriage will provide the colours of a relationship process. The process of one getting into a relationship is a beautiful journey, especially when one puts in much effort to court their significant other. This will lead to a higher level of appreciation that one can have for his or her couple. Besides that, I find arranged marriage a little too easy for my taste. Our parents have been taking care of our stuff ever since we were born. I believe that we should not burden them with the responsibility of choosing their daughters/sons in law. I also believe when one gets married without any effort of their own, he or she would not be able to appreciate one another.
Although I am against arranged marriage, one cannot discount the fact that our grandparents, whom majority of them went through arranged marriage, lived a happy marriage. It all boils down to understanding, caring, loving and respecting one another.
As a conclusion, I would like to note that marriage is not something to be taken lightly. No matter the type of marriage one chooses, as long as one understand the essence of marriage, they could and should live happily ever after.

My opinion on Drow Games.

Lately, My lecturer Dr. Jayakaran Mukunden introduced to us a new method in teaching vocabulary. It is called Drow Games. It is an online game where friends could challenge one another. The best part of the drow game is the top ten players will receive a price. ( 1 IPod Touch for the top player and 1 IPod Nano for each of the subsequent top 10)
In my humble opinion, this method of incorporating video/computer games into learning will definitely result in making the learning process a whole lot more fun. It is a fact that we no longer live in an era of traditional teaching and learning method. Therefore, as teachers, we need to adept to the current trend of learning. Since teenagers nowadays are very interested in gaming, using the drow game software can make learning much more fun.
One should really develop such teaching methods so that learning would be much more fun. Once the software is being developed to include more aspects of English such as grammar and sentence structuring, teaching English will be a much much fun subject to teach and learn. By rewarding students who perform well in such games further motivates learning as well. Perhaps in the near future, the government will seriously consider including gaming into the English language syllabus.

MONA LISA SMILE

For my first blog entry, I shall write a review on a movie I have watched recently. The title of the movie is Mona Lisa smile. It is a 2003 American film that was produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures in association with Red Om Films Productions, directed by Mike Newell, written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, and starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Julia Stiles. The story is revolves around the teaching life of Katherine Ann Watson. This movie has enlightened my understanding on the teaching profession in a few ways.
First and foremost, it teaches me to never underestimate my students. The students showed in this film are very hardworking. So much that Ms Katherine is unable to teach them due to the students having read and understand the entire textbook. Therefore, it is advisable for a teacher to come up with a backup plan in case such a scenario occurs.
Secondly, it is very hard to be a good teacher and a good family person at the same time. This is due to a teacher’s dedication towards his or her work. More often than not, a good teacher would spend much less time with their family thus leading to various problems.
Finally, it is important to understand your students. It is a job of a good teacher to understand their student’s potential in order to guide them on the right path. A good example of such quality is the scene where Ms Katherine’s advice both Elizabeth "Betty" Warren and Joan Brandwyn to make the right choice.
To me, this is a very god movie. I am sure my course mates and I have learned a lot of aspects regarding teaching from watching this movie.