Teaching Then vs. Now

The style of teaching that the movie Mona Lisa smile is trying to make them teach is the traditional have everything planned on a syllabus and only teach with notes and power-points and stuff. Now we are taught any sort of form and style so that we can just learn the material we need to know no matter how they teach it as long as it works. That's why Ms. Watson could teach so well because she would give real life situations and go out into the real world and show them material and help them understand better. I think that in the extract its saying you should only know the facts and shouldn't have any different opinions, I believe this is wrong every one has a right to their own opinion and should be able to believe and think independently. Katherine Watson is not about just facts she was about creativity and believing in whatever you thought was right and not letting others tell you whats right, Charles Dickens says in his novel "Hard Times" that everyone should learn the same and know all the same facts because he thought the world would be better like that. Ms. Watson was such a good teacher but Wellsley did not like her teacher strategies and made her teach a certain way and certain style and Ms. Watson did not like that so she left and went to go some where either where she can learn more about art or where she can teach her way.

My thoughts of the Movie

I thought the movie was a great movie but I feel like it could have ended better because the guy could have actually ended up with the teacher and they live happily ever after. I learned that you shouldn't always assume people are happy because sometimes they could be putting on an act and really they are hurting on the inside. Don't let people walk over you you have to take control and show them who is in charge. My favorite part was when all the girls made art for her.

Mona Lisa Smile

I think the movie Mona Lisa Smile is going to be about an all girls type school about art. The teacher is going to get stressed because the students are going to try and take control over her. The students start trying to take over but the teacher tells them no and the students threaten her. The teacher doesn't care and starts showing them who is boss then the students start liking her. Then the teacher helps them get into the real world with a good job and a good life. 

College vs. High School

In my opinion college will be so much harder than high school just because that college takes less test but are worth more but in high school if you mess up on one test you can do good on the next and just be fine but college you only get a little bit of test's so you have to make sure and do good on every single one of them. In high school you can get away with procrastination but in college you most likely wont get away with it that's also like in college you should study as often as possible so you can do the best in every course but in high school no one study's that much only if its a huge test or assignment. The easiest test to me are the ones we do weekly because you just went over it so it should be the easiest but I think the hardest ones are state testing like the STAAR test and the CFA  because you have to know a wide variety of things from different types of history but I like just focusing on stuff you just went over because then you might get things mixed up.