| dc.description.abstract | Effective teaching relies on strategic approaches that facilitate learning, fostering a conducive teacher-student relationship. Overcoming challenges during the teaching process is crucial, yet some educators resort to monotonous methods, dampening the educational experience. These challenges mirror real-life scenarios in schools and universities, also found in literary works. The literary work in question is a movie, as exemplified in “The Ron Clark Story” movie. This research delves into Ron Clark’s teaching challenges and strategies when working with 6th-grade students at Inner Harlem Elementary School (IHES).
This study aims to find out and analyze the teaching challenges and strategies in the movie “The Ron Clark Story.” This research design used descriptive qualitative research; as stated by Creswell (2012), qualitative research describes, analyzes, and illustrates a phenomenon, social problem, or human problem. The main instrument of this study was the researcher who analyzed the documents from “The Ron Clark Story” movie. To analyze the data, the researcher watched “The Ron Clark Story” movie to find the teaching challenges and strategies used by Ron Clark, identified, and analyzed the teaching challenges and strategies found in the movie.
The result of this study indicated that there were teaching challenges that Ron Clark faced even before he taught at Inner Harlem Elementary School. Some of the challenges that Ron Clark found were the habits of his students that were very difficult to change. Among them were students’ attitudes, discipline issues, lack of honesty, and students’ arguments and fights. Besides the problems in the classroom, Ron Clark was also faced with external teaching challenges from several parties still related to the students. These challenges include cultural and parenting differences, the headmaster’s criticism, the headmaster and parent’s disagreement, and the teacher’s over-workload. On the other hand, Ron Clark also applied several teaching strategies to his students. Some teaching strategies were explicitly based on how to handle the challenges faced, including, games, demonstrations, and one-to-one learning strategies. In comparison, other strategies were applied according to the teaching material, such as lecturing/presentation, questions and answers, direct, interactive, experiential, and self-learning strategies.
Based on the study’s results, teaching young learners requires more energy and effort to foster and maintain enthusiasm for learning in the classroom. teachers need recommendations for teaching strategies from various places. adjustments to teaching strategies are also needed considering that various cultures are spread worldwide. In this case, in “The Ron Clark Story” movie, located in London, education was automatically carried out according to Western culture, which differs from education in Eastern culture, especially in Indonesia. Therefore, adaptation and modification of teaching strategies are needed to suit each culture.
Key Words: Teaching Challenges, Teaching Strategies, Movie, EYL | en_US |
