FACULTY OF EDUCATION

PROGRAM: ED226 BACHELOR OF PHYSICAL AND HEALTH EDUCATION

GROUP: ED226 5A

TOPIC: ASSIGNMENT

MOVIE REVIEW : BEYOND THE BLACKBOARD

PREPARED BY:

MUHAMMAD FARIS FARHAN BIN AZIZAN

STUDENT’S ID: 2011762279

BEYOND THE BLACKBOARD SYNOPSIS

The film follows the life of Stacey Bess as she enters the teaching profession. She has a

husband and two children but she is called to teach. When she meets the school

administrator in her area, he is quite adamant that she commit to filling out the school term in

the class where she is assigned. He also stresses that she must be able to teach grades one

through six.

The next day when Stacey arrives at the place where she has been told to report she finds it

is one room in an old building down by the railroad tracks. The classroom doesn't even have

desks or books. Beside that, with the lack of classroom equipment such as tables, books

and others will give hard time for Stacey Bess continue with the learning process The

location is a place where the homeless live and her students are the children of these

homeless adults.

Slowly but surely Stacey begins to make an impact on the kids and on the parents. She

finally finds an ally in her school superintendent who sees her as fulfilling the true meaning

of teaching. She also has the support of her family, especially her husband Greg

. It is dramatic but uplifting, emotional but true. And there is an annotation at the end that

explains what Stacey went on to accomplish.

Van Camp gives Stacey all the necessary traits to accomplish such a situation. She presents

her as determined but compassionate. She dearly loves her students but this also means

she will fight for them. Talley is almost too good to be true as her husband..

Nicki Aycox is impressive as the mother of two of the children Stacey teaches. Among the

children the standouts are Paola Nicole Andino as Maria and Liam McKanna as Danny.

They make the biggest impression but each of the children in the cast is adorable and quite

the natural actor.

The Learning Approach

The approach that been used is Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi theory which educational

reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. Pestalozzi sought to develop school

that, like loving family which is will nurture children’s development

Pestalozzi believed that thought began with sensation and that teaching should use the

senses. Holding that children should study the objects in their natural environment,

Pestalozzi developed a so-called "object lesson" that involved exercises in learning form,

number, and language. Pupils determined and traced an object's form, counted objects, and

named them. Students progressed from these lessons to exercises in drawing, writing,

adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, and reading.

Pestalozzi especially dedicated to children who were poor, hungry and socially or

psychologically handicapped. For example, if children were hungry, Pestalozzi fed them

before he attempted to teach them, if they were frightened, he comforted them. For him, a

teacher was not only skilled in instructional method but also capable of loving all children.

Pestalozzi employed the following principles in teaching: (1) begin with the concrete

object before introducing abstract concepts; (2) begin with the immediate environment

before dealing with what is distant and remote; (3) begin with easy exercises before

introducing complex ones; and (4) always proceed gradually, cumulatively, and slowly. From

this film, we can see the arrangement of classroom at the start of lesson is very messy. Miss

Stacy had a difficulty to teach her student. However, she did not give up and keep going with

other chances to make ensure that the class learning session going well after she start the

class with a test to grade the students level because in her class..

SOCIAL CONTEXT

I. SOCIETY CONTEXT

Education, has a great social importance specially in the modern, complex

industrialised societies.

The main social objective of education is to complete the socialization process. The family gets the child, but the modern family tends to leave much undone in the socialisation process. The school and other institutions have come into being in place of family to complete the socialization process. Education aims at the reformation of attitudes wrongly developed by children already. For various reasons the child may have absorbed a host of attitudes, beliefs and disbeliefs, loyalties and prejudices, jealously and hatred etc. these are to be reformed.

It is the function of education to see that unfounded beliefs, illogical prejudices and unreasoned loyalties are removed from the child's mind, though the school has its own limitations in this regard, it is expected to continue its efforts in reforming the attitudes of the children. The society clearly does not support Miss Stacey at the early stage of movies. They distract the students by making loud noise, watching television near the schools and also did not care about the education of their society. They will try to distract the teaching and learning process of the student. However, after Miss Stacy resilience and workhard, they finally realised and accept that education is important. They help Miss Stacey clean up the school and try to give a warm condition for learning and teaching process to progress.

II. SCHOOL AND ADMINISTRATION CONTEXT

Every schools administration in the world must prepared learning tool such as books,

facilities and environment that is suitable for learning for their students . This is a

basic needs for all students in the world to have a suitable condition to study. In

Beyond the Blackboard film, when Miss Stacey were transferred into shelter school,

the school administration did not provide study materials and study aids and also

students are learning in the same grade. So the situation was very hard for Miss

Stacey to teach them due to the inconvenient matters. But, Miss Stacey were very

determine to teach her student well. She had a meeting with the school

administrative and continue to proceed the learning process by go to the office to

stand for students right. Miss Stacey was challenged to separate all the students

according to their grades that is from grade one to six.

III. PARENTAL CONTEXT

It is widely recognised that if pupils are to maximise their potential from schooling

they will need the full support of their parents. Attempts to enhance parental i

nvolvement in education occupy governments, administrators, educators and

parents’ organisations across North America, Australasia, continental Europe,

Scandinavia and the UK. It is anticipated that parents should play a role not only

in the promotion of their own children’s achievements but more broadly in school

improvement and the democratisation of school governance. Parents clearly

have rights in terms of their children’s education. Schools can take steps to

increase parents’ beliefs that they have an important role to play in their

children’s school success. They may do this by offering: clear and effective

invitations to involvement; clear information about the specific benefits of

involvement; clear suggestions for time-limited involvement activities at home. In

offering such suggestions, schools might also stress three fundamental

mechanisms of parent involvement’s influence on student outcomes, any one of

which may help students learn modeling and instruction . In this movie, the

parents of the student clearly do not giving trus to Miss Stacey at earlier of the

movies. However, after witnessing the changes that Miss Stacey produce to their

children, their perspective changed. They become more supportive to their

children and help to motivate their children to be a better student.