Mona Lisa Smile - Teaching Styles

From a personal standpoint, students don't exactly like when teachers teach from the book. It gives us a certain sense that the teacher may not truly and fully understand what they're trying to get us to learn about. It often makes learning the material more difficult to take notes over because the student doesn't have a different perspective to reference back to if they have homework so when they go back and reread it in the book, it doesn't click with them. The way the principle is trying to get Katherine to teach throughout the movie is unfair. Not every teacher has the same teaching style, just like not every student has the same learning style. Therefore, having requirements on how the teacher should make their point is like telling the student that it's either "their way or no way."

Mona Lisa Smile - Favorite Theme

I think my favorite theme of Mona Lisa Smile was her want for feminism. She wanted the girls to really understand that they didn't have to be just a house wife to be successful in life. She taught the girls how to be independent and I think that was a major influence in how we females see things in the world today.

Mona Lisa Smile

After watching the trailer of Mona Lisa Smile, I think the movie will be teaching students how to look at the entire picture instead of the small details. I think this not only because of the fact that she's an art teacher but also because she is showing one of her students that there is more to life than being married. During the era that this movie was filmed, the girls in college thought it was acceptable to start missing classes once they were married and the teacher did not understand why. Therefore, she goes to a higher ranked person in the college and tries get her point across to him and the other students. I think by the end of the story, the students will understand her purpose of teaching them the whole reason as to why she is doing this for them and they will begin to stand up for themselves instead of being dependent on their husbands once they're married.

High School vs. College

Between high school and college exams, it honestly depends on the class the student is taking, who's teaching it, and how well they understand the topic. However, college is typically harder due to more information being presented in a shorter exam. In high school, there's less material on the tests but they're also longer. When it comes to preparing for an exam, a student should always be regularly studying and becoming familiar with the information instead of waiting until it's almost time to take the test. Procrastinating often makes the student memorize the information without fully comprehending and processing what they're studying. Overall, how hard a test may be is based off of the student and how well they gather their information and review it before taking an exam.