EDUC-ELECT 3 REQUIREMENT

2. SUMMARY
The story started in 1994, when Ron Clark applied as a teacher in Snowden Elementary School in Aurora,
North Carolina. He shared his exceptional knowledge there to his students with his innovative teaching
methods where he was greatly appreciated by his students and co-teachers. After four years of teaching
there, he decided to choose a greener path trying luck by living in New York. It was difficult to find a job
at first. Before working as a teacher he worked as part-time waiter in a restaurant, there he met his
friend Marissa Vega, who was also a waitress in the same restaurant. Marissa was always been there for
Ron Clark throughout the story. As he was looking for a teaching job in New York he went to Inner
Harlem Elementary School and encountered a teacher arguing with his student outside the school, the
principal of the school, Principal Turner went out to fix the commotion. The teacher quit his job and gave
Ron the chance to replace the teacher. Principal Turner’s job security depends on good test scores that is
why he assigned him in the honors class, but Ron refused and offered to take over the most
disadvantaged class. The class that already had five teachers- all gave up on them but this was a
challenge for him. It was not easy to deal with those kind of students at first, they all had different
personalities and different stories. Most of them looked tough in school but were fighting their own battle
at home. Ron Clark never gave up on them no matter how difficult it is to deal with them even he is sick
he made ways to deliver lesson to his students by recording a video. He overcome it all, and made his
students pass the exam and not just pass but remarkably scored higher than the honors class. He
brought out the best in his students. No one believed in them…except him.

3.  Teaching for Ron Clark is not a job but it’s his life.
A teacher will do everything for his students to learn.
He didn’t gave up on his students.
He believed that they can be who they want to be.
One good deed of a teacher, can
change the life of a student
FOREVER
MORAL VALUES

4. PERSONAL INSIGHTS

6. Lastly I can say that this movie is one of those movies that
will inspire students of today to be better teachers in the
future. To realize that being a teacher is really a dedication.
That you can change lives. Just like what Mr Clark did to his
students. Yes, it is not the easiest job in world but the
fulfilment that you will feel afterwards is unimaginable. I
learned a lot from Mr Clark, I admire him, for his patience,
efforts, his knowledge, his techniques and his love for his
students. Not all teachers can endure that, I can’t even
imagine someone can survive to that situation, but he proved
everyone wrong and left a message to all the teachers and
future teachers that we can all do it.

7. Thank you for watching!