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
STUDENTS 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 childrens 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 . SOCI ETY 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 childrens achievements but more broadly in school
improvement and the democratisation of school governance. Parents clearly
have rights in terms of their childrens education. Schools can take steps to
increase parents beliefs that they have an important role to play in their
childrens 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 involvements 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.