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RESEARCH II FINAL ASSIGNMENT

Lectured by Dra. Surya Sili, MAT., Ph.D

AN ANALYSIS OF RON CLARCK MOVIE BASED ON CHARACTERISTIC OF GOOD TEACHER

Compiled By Mita Farani Azis1005085019A Regular Class 2010

ENGLISH DEPARTMENTTEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTYMULAWARMAN UNIVERSITY2013RON CLARCK ANALYSIS MOVIE

As the development of global era, every school requires good teacher. Schools believe hiring good teacher will develop the enhancement of school as well as the students. A growing body of research encourages this concept. Thestudy, conducted by economists Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman of Harvard and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia, tracked 2.5 million students over 20 years from a large urban school district from fourth grade to adulthood in America, making it one of the largest and most consequential educational studies in recent years. Their findings focus on the long-term impact of teachers based on their "value-added" ratings. This refers to the average test-score improvement for a teacher's students, adjusted for differences across schools and classrooms such as prior test scores. Most importantly, the effect of a good teacher on a child's life is monumental. The studydiscoveredthat students assigned to higher VA (value-added) teachers are more successful in many dimensions. They are more likely to attend college, earn higher salaries, live in better neighborhoods and save more for retirement. They are also less likely to have children as teenagers.Based on the research which is conduct by Raj Chetty and others, students achievement is more heavily influenced by qualified teacher. Actually, the general requirement that applied in the most school is accepting teacher who has graduated from University. The basic standard of this kind of teacher is undergraduate teachers. And the highest standard goes to post graduate teachers. But keeping the attention to education of teacher is not enough. Because teacher is not just a person who stands up in front of the class and explains the knowledge to students, the job of teacher is bigger than that. Teacher also has to pay attention to what students need and how the teachers are going to present the material in front of the children. Before we are talking more about the qualified teachers, its better to defined first what exactly a good teacher is. Generally teacher can be categorized as a profession who teach someone. The teaching and learning process can be taken place in the school or private home schooling. But teaching is one of the most complicated jobs today. It demands broad knowledge of subject matter, curriculum, and standards; enthusiasm, a caring attitude, and a love of learning; knowledge of discipline and classroom management techniques; and a desire to make a difference in the lives of young people. With all these qualities required, it's no wonder that it's hard to find great teachers. To find out someone who has high passion in teaching and eligible to pursue the standardization of good teacher, we need a parameter to identify this kind of qualification. According to Beidler in Chris Morgans review, he wrote 10 specification of qualified teacher. He drew the characteristic of good teacher based on his personal experience and observation rather than educational theory. He elaborates the characteristic as below: 1. Good teachers really wants to be good teachersEndeavor is the proper word for this characteristic. A good teacher never stops to make an effort and tries very hard in every teaching process. And letting students know how hard your effort will eventually gain students respect.

2. Good teachers take risksGood teachers set impossible goal to gain. The purpose of doing this is to allows teachers to take chance and try different things in classroom based on academic freedom. It is exciting to try things that may fail; if you succeed then you have accomplished something and if you dont succeed then you have learnt that you need to make some adjustments.

3. Good teachers have a positive attitude We ought to enjoy, not complain about, the hallenges students give us. Good teachers try not to be cynical or negative about their students or else cast themselves as victims. We need challenges and there is none if all we have are smart, self - motivated, hard- working, wide- awake students; these dont really need to be taught.

4. Good teachers never have enough timeGood teachers dont have enough time is not because they have lots of class to attend and teach but because they busy to prepare materials that they are going to presented in the classroom. They prefer to be busy and know that the work of good teaching expands to fill every moment they can give it. They are in their office the most hours for students to visit and they get a lot of visits, they put the most effort into providing students with feedback on their assignments, they are most in demand for committee work, they put the most work into their class preparations. They are always trying something different or else refining what they have previously tried.

5. Good teachers think of teaching as a form of parentingGood teachers tend to find that the caring that goes into their teaching feels a lot like the caring that goes into parenting. It means knowing when to stand firm on a deadline or a standard of excellence, and when to bend or apologize. They know that their students, like their own children, have insecurities and problems.

6. Good teachers try to keep students and themselves off balanceYou are more likely to learn when your comfort, your complacency, and your self - assurance are being threatened. Good teachers detest stagnation and look for fresh challenges for themselves. They also like to have their students take on challenges that they are not at all sure they can handle. They like to move their students beyond their comfort zone to challenge their confidence so they can earn a new confidence.

7. Good teachers try to motivate students by working within their incentive systemMost undergraduates seem to be eager to make a lot of money. Lingnan University teachers in the humanities areas may wonder how to use that as an incentive in their teaching. However you can point out to your students that many business executives have majors in the liberal arts. That background has given them the advantage of being able to synthesize things, how to explain things to others, how to persuade others to their point of view, and how to understand the people that make any business work.

8. Good teachers do not trust student evaluationsNeither do bad teachers of course, but for different reasons. Good teachers do tend to get very good evaluations, but they focus on the one or two erratic evaluations that say something negative about them. They ask themselves what they did wrong for those one or two students. The not- so- good teachers tend to trust the positive evaluations they receive and dismiss the negative ones.

9. Good teachers try to give their students confidenceOur students will likely get along fine without knowing much about the subject matter we teach. However it is the process of them learning what we teach that will make a difference for them. The process we take them through such as having them say something worthwhile clearly, forcefully and with a proper marshalling of evidence that will give them confidence in their ability to take on tough assignments. Sometimes we do students a big favor by pushing them to speak up in class. When good teachers do this they will find something positive to say about what is offered.

10. Good teachers listen to their studentsThose who have asked their students what makes a good teacher have been told that they are accessible, available, approachable, enthusiastic, energetic and excited.

And now after exploring the definition of good teacher and its characteristic, we will proceed to the analysis items of qualified teacher in Ron Clarck Story. The overall view of this movie tells about a teacher who has an expertise in rising standardize score. He gets a low level class in Inner Harlem elementary school. He chooses that class to prove every student has same capability if they get same opportunity. At the end, he success to prove his belief and his class gains the higher score than the honor class who always has perfect score. From the beginning of the story, Ron Clarcks passion in teaching is appeared. When he meets Hadley Craig, a boy who stands in the trash because the teacher says that he cant learn, Ron Clark proves to this kid that actually Hadley can learn something by remembering Ron Clarcks name. Four year later, he accomplishes perfect score for the fourth grader in Snowden Elementary school North Carolina. But then just being good in one particular place cant be categorized as qualified teacher based on his perspective. He has to move out from the comfort zone to show that he can be a good teacher in any place. When he knows that New York public schools desperate for good teachers, he believes it is a chance for him. To convince his ambition, he delineates a reason by saying, every year, I go tell my students to go for what they want in life. Dream big. Take risks. It starts to live in up with my own words.Based on Ron Clarcks action, he has already implemented the first and second characteristic of good teacher. Firstly when he feels that it is not enough to be good in just one particular place and also the feeling to help other schools is the signal of a teacher who wants to be good teacher. A good teacher cant just say enough for being good. A good teacher always tries to make an effort to be good teacher as much as he could. So that is why he moves out of the town to enhance his standard of being good teacher. Secondly, when he says Take risk, deliberately he carries out the second characteristic which is Good teacher take risk. He go to New York is one of the risk that he gets. Ron Clarck starts for new job, with new neighborhood, and without someone whom he knows. It is a risk that he accepts at the very first time. And that actually makes him categorized in the second characteristic. While Ron Clarck begins his day in teaching low level class, every students disrespect him. Nobody listen to him when he introduces his classroom rules. But he still maintain positive attitude. He redecorates the classroom all over even his students always ruin the classroom again. He manages his attitude. But then someday, Ron Clarck out of the emotion, he shakes Shameikas table. But then he realizes its bad thing to do. So he comes back again to the class and starts teacher as he always does. It means that Ron Clark has deal with the third characteristic which is positive attitude. Even if it is hard to keep positive attitude toward the children but that is actually the challenge of become good teacher. And Ron Clarck proves it can be done. To cater the job of being good teacher, Ron Clarck doesnt have enough time to prepare the material which is going to be presented. This is not because he has lots of work to do in restaurant but because he wants to present a perfect material based on students need. He doesnt sleep to prepare a rap song for studying the order of USA president. Not to mention all of his effort to recover the class, Ron Clarck never stops to fulfill his obligation as a teacher until he gets sick because of tired of working and has less rest. This action eventually place him in the fourth characteristic which is good teacher never have enough time. He doesnt care how much time that he spends to prepare learning process for his students. Basically his style of teaching isnt put the teacher as a superior over the students. He precisely places his position as parent who always cares with the students no matter how stubborn they are. Ron Clarck tries to approach them by remembering all names of his students. And he never tired to warn students that they should behave in the good way. Take an example when Shameika is busy to take care of his brother. Ron Clarck doesnt hesitate to help her to make a dinner and do Shameikas homework. And this kind of approach put him in the fifth characteristic which is good teacher think of teaching as a form of parenting.And how about the sixth and seventh characteristic of good teacher. Mr. Ron Clarck has already put them in line. When he tries to keep the students behave in good way and motivate them by using classroom rules such as we are a family, we respect each other. He directly proves those characteristic of try to keep students and motivate students to behave in good way. The core problems of disobedient students begin when the students underestimate themselves. They believe they cant do anything good. For example couples day before the state exam, all of students afraid of facing the test. This is the first time they really do the exam seriously. They also afraid of being fail and underestimated by other people again. But Ron Clarck doesnt believe his students perspective. He believes his students have good potential that had never been explored. In front of Shameika and Tashawn parents, he rejects the parents notion that those children are less miserable. By saying that Shameika can go to Manhattan west for middle school and defending Tashawn in front of his father in law, he wants to prove bad notions must be stopped. His intention of doing this is to eradicate bad perspective of each student and let student be confidence of their selves. This is actually the eighth and the nineth characteristic that Ron Clarck caters in his teaching process.The last but not the least, Ron Clarck becomes good teacher is because he always listen to his students. Even the students give harassed comment to him, he always respect the children who speaks and listen for what they want. Based on the analysis above, Ron Clasrck has proved to us that he implements the ten characteristic of good and finally become a great teacher. Hopefully by implement those characteristic we also can be the Ron Clarck.

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