As teachers, you want to get engaged with activities to enhance your teaching abilities, read books, study but there are movies that can help you relax, get entertained while also learning to improve yourself.
It is important to know that while these movies entertain, they will also educate, and enlighten you about the central role of teachers in society, and as a teacher, you will most definitely relate to some of these movies.
Here’s a list of 5 teacher movies put together to help you learn, get delighted, inspired, and enlightened.
Dead poets society
The film follows a new English teacher who is assigned to an all-boys preparatory school with a long history of tradition and high standards.
He reaches out to his kids in unconventional ways, as they are under immense pressure from their parents and the school.
The vast majority of students learn to come out of their cages, chase their aspirations, and seize the day with the teacher’s guidance.
This film emphasizes that not all traditional methods produce positive results; sometimes, as a teacher, you must think and come up with what works, even if it is not a traditional method.
Dangerous minds
A former marine officer is hired to teach in a pilot program at a notorious inner-city high school for intelligent but underachieving adolescents.
She resolves to throw formality to the wind after a disastrous first day. Johnson returns to the classroom with a no-nonsense attitude shaped by her military experience and a brave commitment to make a difference in her pupils’ lives.
Regardless of the expenses, you will learn that teaching requires resolve because the classroom has a variety of personalities, some of whom are not disciplined.
Lean on me
A New Jersey administrator watches weakly as East Side High set off as the state’s worse school in this true-life movie.
Dr. Napier hires an ex-teacher to assume over as principal of the failing school since he has nowhere else to turn.
Sadly for Clark, he must first address the school’s gang and narcotics issues before focusing on increasing the student body’s state exam scores. You can see here how, as a teacher, you must always look for the positive in every kid.
Coach Carter
Ken Carter returns to his old secondary school in Richmond, California, to rehabilitate the basketball squad.
He triumphs in putting the squad on an unbeaten run by enforcing strict regulations and academic rigor.
Carter, however, locks them out of the gym and ends their championship season when their grades begin to slip.
When the players and their parents protest about this, he stands firm, adamant that they thrive in class as well as on the court. Not allowing your students to achieve in certain areas while failing in others is a tough lesson to learn.
Freedom Fighters
In a racially segregated Los Angeles school, a determined and devoted teacher has a class of at-risk youngsters who are declared unwilling to learn.
Rather than giving up on them, she encourages the students to take an active role in their education and future goals.
She gives them reading assignments that are relevant to their life and encourages them to keep notebooks.
In this film, you’ll see how, when your students have given up due to their circumstances, you may give them hope and a voice as a teacher.
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