This essay discusses the philosophy used by Ron Clark in the movie Ron Clark, that how learning can be made useful in the school by creating interdependency among the student and with great effort and motivation every student can score well.
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1EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY IN RON CLARK Movie Ron Clark is a very influencing movie and motivates the student. Ron Clark joined a middle school located in Atlanta and asked for the most mischievous student in a class who continuously scored severely. His education philosophy was apparent where he believed that each student could perform well in academics only when they are provided with a teacher who will mould according to their need. Ron Clark made few rules and asked the whole class to maintain so that they can achieve the desired goal. The First rule was, everyone in the class should behave like a family, and in the family, and no one lies and always stands by each other in difficult times. Secondly, everyone should give respect to each other including Ron Clark and no one should misbehave with other (O'Connor, 2016). The next rule was to maintain a line while going for lunch and until the line is managed correctly, no one will get lunch.This essay tends to discuss the philosophy used by Ron Clark, that how learning can be made useful in the school by creating interdependency among the student and with great effort and motivation every student can score well. Ron Clark where he was able to create inter-dependency among the students rather than making them dependent on him and was able to transfer the belief of them from worst to the right regarding them used the motivational philosophy in school.He had visited each student and interacted with their parents about the student separately. And during the class, Ron Clark used to call every student by their name which helped the students to get closer to Ron Clark. He treated all students with love and patience so that they can understand him and allow him to teach appropriately (Skovsmose, 2013). Ron Clark had a great sense of humor’ to handle every situation. In the movie, there was a scene, where two students were fighting, and Mr. Clark entered into the fight to handle the situation. After this the boy who was fighting left the
2EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY IN RON CLARK classroom, Clark stopped him in the staircase and asked him not to leave, and he gave the reason that he will miss his glowing personality. Therefore, it is better to join the class. This situation tells that humor can diffuse difficult situations(Noddings, 2018). Ron Clark believed that the teacher should never lose hope as for the student, the teacher is the only ray of hope. Besides, the teacher should never give up on the student and their future. The main philosophy used by Ron Clark was to show that in spite of the immense distraction, the teacher should not quit at any cost. If the students were unable to cope up with the studies, he gave extra time for them every day. Whole class thought that Ron would leave the job, but to their surprise, Clark did not quit(AFIDHA, 2015). Everyone thought they were useless, and the worst class, but Ron showed faith in them. Ron Clark used the technique of teaching history by making rhymes and explained things like a story so that the student feel it interesting and gets attracted towards Ron Clark’s lectures. To gain the attention and to maintain the silence, he instructed the students to listen to him without disturbing the class, and in return, he offered them chocolate milk every 15 seconds. Ron made rap on presidents name so that student can easily remember the history and names. The students of his class scored best and topped the section. This movie shows that nothing is impossible and with hard work and determination, everyone can achieve.
3EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY IN RON CLARK Reference AFIDHA, Z. M. (2015). The Politeness Strategies Used by Ron Clark in the Ron Clark Story Movie.JurnalIlmiahMahasiswa FIB,2(9). Noddings, N. (2018).Philosophy of education. Routledge. O'Connor, D. J. (2016).An introduction to the philosophy of education. Routledge. Skovsmose, O. (2013).Towards a philosophy of critical mathematics education(Vol. 15). Springer Science & Business Media.