Our class finally finished up the movie Chalk and the end of the movie really brought the craziness down to reality. The question that was brought up the very first time was, "Is this your high school" and in many ways it is. This movie really stresses and focuses in on things that can go wrong or the things that teachers don't want to be involved with. This is not something that will be seen in a normal high school from day to day but eventually there will be days when something will happen that your not ready for.
This movie even though its main purpose is to entertain it really does portray a good message in the end, that this could be you and what would you do in their shoes? This movie did cover some things that will not be so stressed in a text book but is still just as dangerous in the working world. This movie shows that you will be put into situations everyday and you need to make a choice, sometimes the choices made are wrong but you can always bounce back from poor choices.
At the end of the video the first year teacher is having a hard time if he really wants to continue teaching or not. I don't blame him for thinking about it, in the movie he said something about how this job was a lot harder then what he thought. So I can totally see him really thinking this through because he was way over his head when he first started. You don't usually see weakness in teachers but in this video it really showed how this first year teacher reacted to the pressure and how he almost cracked. I thought this movie was well thought out, not quite what i thought it was going to be but still a very good movie and I think it had some very important lessons in it.
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It definitely is a good thing to think about! First year teachers usually have a lot to learn and we will be there soon enough! Hopefully we don't end up like the teachers in that movie, but like you said if we make a bad decision, the best we can do is bounce back.
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