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Nov 22, 2023 · When they are not struggling protagonists, teachers on screen are antagonistic characters. On average, teachers are unflatteringly portrayed as abusive, negligent, incompetent and loners.
Oct 23, 2024 · My new research looks at teachers in popular TV shows and films and finds they are often portrayed as losers or villains. Why status matters. In previous research, I did a meta-analysis [4] of almost 200 teacher retention [5] studies. This found social approval is strongly correlated with teachers’ intention to stay in the profession.
- Robin Williams – Dead Poets Society – John Keating
- Jack Black – School of Rock – Dewey Finn
- Ray Walston as Mr. Hand – Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- Ben Stein – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – Mr. Lorensax
- J.K. Simmons – Whiplash – Dr. Terence Fletcher
- Edward James Olmos – Stand and Deliver – Jaime Escalante
- Michelle Pfeiffer – Dangerous Minds – Louanne Johnson
- Richard Dreyfus – Mr. Holland’s Opus – Glenn Holland
- Patrick Stewart – X-Men – Professor Charles Xavier
- Morgan Freeman – Lean on Me – Joe Clark
“Carpe Diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.” John Keating’s the kind of teacher that we all should have and experience in our lives. His unending passion for poetry sparked life into young men’s hearts and minds. Keating taught more than just what was on the page. He was a true inspiration for exploring the emotion of what was ...
“My name is Dewey Finn, and no, I’m not a licensed teacher, but I have been touched by your kids and I’m pretty sure I’ve touched them.” Jack Black’s Dewey Finn in School of Rock is the music teacher we all would love to have. Finn ends up falling into a classroom and ends up finding his own educational talents he never knew he had. One of the best...
“’Mr. Hand, will I pass this class?’ Gee, Mr. Spicoli, I don’t know! You know what I’m going to do? I’m going to leave your words right up here for all my classes to enjoy, giving you full credit of course, Mr. Spicoli. In a word: dick. This was the kind of teacher that made students hate teaching: super sarcastic, does not connect with students, h...
“Anyone? Anyone?” Going further on the “terrible teachers” department, we have Mr. Lorensax in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, played by Ben Stein. Not only does Stein have a tedious and boring monotone voice, but his character has one of those people that asks questions just to answer them himself. During the famous scenes he’s in, Mr. Lorensax seems un...
“There are no two words in the English language more harmful than “good job.” Have you seen the movie Whiplash? It’s hard to determine if J.K. Simmons is a good teacher or a bad teacher in this film. Simmons plays music teacher Dr. Terrance Fletcher at a prestigious school. On one hand, Fletcher pushes his students to the absolute brink to help the...
“Tough guys don’t do math. Tough guys fry chicken for a living.” Edward James Olmos was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in Stand and Deliver. Olmos plays Jaime Escalante, a high school calculus teacher who goes above and beyond for his hard-knocked students. This movie is based on true-life events about a California school about to be de...
“Sometimes it takes a lot of wrong answers to get to the right one.” One thing that always makes a good teacher is someone who knows how to adapt and change for the betterment of their students. What Stand and Deliver was for the 80’s, Dangerous Minds was for the 90’s. When Dangerous Minds came out, it shined a light on disadvantaged schools and th...
“Playing music is supposed to be fun. It’s about heart, it’s about feelings, moving people, and something beautiful, and it’s not about notes on a page. I can teach you notes on a page, I can’t teach you that other stuff.” One of the great music teachers portrayed in Hollywood is none other than Glenn Holland in Mr. Holland’s Opus, played by Richar...
“Just Because Someone Stumbles And Loses Their Way Doesn’t Mean They’re Lost Forever.” Great teachers come in all sorts of forms, including mutants. Professor Charles Xavier, played by the great Sir Patrick Stewart, was the heart and soul of the X-Men. Professor X believed in each individual’s journey and how each of them were part of a larger fami...
“They said this school was dead. Like the cemetery it’s built on. But we call our Eastside teams ‘Ghosts,’ don’t we? And what are ghosts? Ghosts are spirits that rise from the dead. I want you to be my ghosts.” While technically not a teacher, Morgan Freeman plays Principal Joe Clark in the movie Lean On Me. This movie brilliantly portrays the admi...
Nov 15, 2021 · Teachers have been variously portrayed on screen. However, a consistent and significant negative shift has taken place this century. Consequently, a descriptive analysis is undertaken of teacher characters streaming on Netflix in 2019.
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Nov 26, 2023 · My new research looks at teachers in popular TV shows and films and finds they are often portrayed as losers or villains. Why status matters. In previous research, I did a meta-analysis of almost 200 teacher retention studies. This found social approval is strongly correlated with teachers’ intention to stay in the profession.
Nov 23, 2023 · Article. A new database of teachers on screen shows they are often portrayed as rule-breakers, losers or villains. November 2023. Authors: Hugh Gundlach. University of Melbourne. To read...
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Teachers have been variously portrayed on screen. However, a consistent and significant negative shift has taken place this century. Consequently, a descriptive analysis is undertaken of teacher characters streaming on Netflix in 2019.
