Teacher's Panel

Listening to the returning students, now teachers, was about what I expected it to be. They're all experiencing something that they were prepared for, but with a few "curve balls" thrown in. They each have an opinion on how prepared they were for teaching in general, but it also proves that you are never prepared enough. There are always going to be those complications that you don't expect until you experience it. Even as a more advanced teacher, you're going to see situations that are new or different. But, that is where you are adaptable. You work with the changes which could lead to a beneficial outcome for both the teacher and the students.

Review of "Paper Clips"

To start, I admit the background of the movie was fairly fascinating. This is mainly due to my interest in the Holocaust. In all of the history I've learned, the Holocaust was the most intriguing, and most horrifying. I can hardly imagine something that horrible happening to millions of people.
That being said, I feel that the movie could have been more beneficial had the teachers added more background to what the Holocaust was about. More people than Jews died, although they were the majority. Even people who harbored Jews or other "fugitives" were shipped away to the concentration camps. Now, I will admit that the movie only showed snippets of what the teachers presented, but personally, it felt that the information provided (from what I did see) was fairly incomplete. There was so much more that could have been done to provide insight to this horrific event, and it didn't seem to head that direction.
But, even though the information seemed lacking, I will admit that the morals and such that came from this experiment were well stated. Reflecting on one's own life in comparison to a mass genocide event can be fairly eye opening, although not necessarily on the same level. It allowed the students, and the teachers, to look at their own lives and the lives of their ancestors and see if they could be proud of who the are. Many times, the teachers especially, had difficulty. But at the same time, the students could see these issues and hone those emotional skills so they can work with the pain to make it something more desirable in the future.