《叫我第一名》英文观后感.doc

The Impression of Front of the ClassRecently, I have seen a film named Front of the Class. The film touches my heart deeply and makes me think a lot in many aspects including the differences of the way of thinking between China and the West.The film adapted from the true story of the Brad Cohen. So it makes the film more convincing and impressing. The protagonist of the film was a child named Brad Cohen who always made terrible noises no matter where he was and no matter when. At first, everyone thought Brad did this deliberately including his parents. But Brad said he couldn’t stop this. His mother began to look up some medical books in library and found that Brad got the Tourette syndrome and it can’t be cured. Because of this Brad suffered a lot of unfair treatment and prejudice from his teachers and classmates. The most disappointed was that his father couldn’t understand him and this frustrated Brad a lot. The turning point of Brad’s life occurred when the headmaster Meier explained the disease of little Brad in front of all the students. And since then Brad made a decision to be a teacher. Brad tried very hard for this dream and he never gave up even when he suffered a lot and was turned down by many schools. Finally he succeeded in becoming a teacher in his insistence. Also he did very well in this position and students all liked him very much. Moreover he got the title of Outstanding Teacher and also he found his beloved girlfriend. They lived happily ever after.In this film, we can learn a lot about life such as we should carry on our dreams no matter how worse the condition is and we should never give up to the difficulties we come across and so on. Besides this we can also treat this in another view, for example there are many differences between China and the West. So next I will talk about the differences of the way of thinking between China and the West from several aspects: education ideas、the attitude towards love and independence of the children.We all know that in the West there are many famous universities such as: Oxford、Harvard University、Stanford University and so on. This was a sign that the education in the West is very successful. The reason why the education is so successful can’t be separated with their excellent education ideas. In this film, one scene that impressed me deeply was that in the school concert the headmaster Meier asked Brad to stand in front of the classroom to explain his disease to the students. Mr. Meier didn’t tell the students about Brad’s Tourette syndrome directly. On the contrary, he asked Brad a few questions about his disease and let him answer the questions by himself. By this way all the students understood the condition of Brad and the reason why he behaved so different. The most important is that the headmaster didn’t help Brad to explain but let Brad himself to deal with the things that belonged to him. In China, the condition is totally different. Sometimes the teachers help students do a lot of things and they may neglect the autonomous of students. Try to think this: if a student like Brad were in the school of China, what the condition would be? Maybe we just think he is very poor and tell the students not to bully and make fun of him. Most of us will not do that like the headmaster Meier do: let him to make it clear by his own work. And most of the time we help the students do their own business and ignore they should be independent. All we should do is just give him a stage to show and encourage him.When Brad becomes a teacher, the way he teaches the students gets me thinking about how to educate students correctly. In China the standard we judge whether a student is excellent mostly is that his grade and his behavior. And when we still are young children, we are regarded as smart if we can recite enough Chinese ancient poems. After we enter school and become a student, we begin to receive the so-called Chinese Education. Teachers stuff our brains with abundance knowledge and sometimes tell us all the right answers just for saving time. They neglect students’ autonomy and don’t let students explore by themselves. But in this movie, Brad’s teaching method is quite open. He doesn’t force students to remember something but lead them by the way they are interested in. For example, when Brad taught students geographical knowledge, he used the route of Messi’s truck to make them remember the name of places. And even he invited Messi to come to school in order to make students see the truck he referred to in the class. By this we can find that in China the students usually receive the knowledge passively but in West they receive the knowledge actively. Also the teaching techniques are totally different.The attitude towards love between China and the West is also different. In the film, Nancy and Brad knew each other by the Internet. When Nancy truly met Brad, she didn’t scared by Brad and decide n。