Mr. Holland Sparknotes

Mr. Holland wasn’t excited to be a teacher and that really reflected his teaching ways at the start of the movie. Burning the beginning all he was focused on was getting in and out of the school without having to put any extra effort into the job, he was mainly focused on making his music and wasn’t worried about anything else. After his wife had told him that they were having a baby, he realized he just might be stuck working as a teacher for more that the 4 years that he originally planned. But after a while he figured out that he really wasn’t “stuck” and he really liked being a teacher. Being disappointed over and over again by his students he decided to go in a different direction with his teaching. His relationship with his students dramatically changed after that point. There were several examples of how he really connected with his students but my favorite was the scene where he finally figures out how to help Gertrude Lang, and helps Rowena figure out who she really is and who she inspires to be. The book says perception “begins when we select information on which to focus our attention. We then organize the information into an understandable pattern
Holland realized she wasn’t having any fun playing, and music is supposing to be fun, so he persuaded her to look at it a different way and not give up. In that scene, he asks her what he favorite thing was about her and she said her hair “because it reminds her dad of a sunset” (Mr. Hollands opus, 1995). He then told her to play the sunset… That is such a great example of perception because there is no way to play the sunset but it meant to play the way she feels about it; many people feel different about the way sunset makes them feel but the way it makes her feel helped her hit a note she usually couldn’t. He taught her how to finally have fun while playing and not to worry about what others think. And that’s where teaching changed for him and he learned a new way to teach and make kids want to