{"id":78387,"date":"2025-09-25T00:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=78387"},"modified":"2025-09-25T00:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:16:47","slug":"emmy-winning-er-drama-the-pitt-shines-a-light-on-compassionate-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/emmy-winning-er-drama-the-pitt-shines-a-light-on-compassionate-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmy-winning ER drama The Pitt shines a light on compassionate teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31938062\/?ref_=ttawd_ov_i\"><em><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78388\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Pitt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Pitt.jpg 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Pitt-250x141.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31938062\/?ref_=ttawd_ov_i\"><em>The Pitt<\/em><\/a>, HBO Max\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/lists\/emmys-2025-winners-list\/\">Emmy-winning television medical drama<\/a>, is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/the-pitt-ratings-viewers-1236367516\">a breakout hit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pittsburghmagazine.com\/how-realistic-is-the-pitt\/\">Medical professionals<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/how-the-pitt-death-accuracy-1236365261\/\">critics<\/a>\u00a0alike laud the show for its realistic portrayal of an emergency room.<\/p>\n<p>That the show is also a master class in teaching has largely escaped notice.<\/p>\n<p>As a critic and scholar who writes about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/14680777.2015.1111919\">representations of teachers in popular media<\/a>, I hadn\u2019t expected to think about teaching when tuning in for a fictional show about Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Popular media: education and escape<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Philosopher of education\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/281627550_Popular_Movies_that_Teach_How_Movies_Teach_About_Schools_and_Gender\">Adam Greteman and K.J. Burke, an expert in teacher education<\/a>, highlight how popular media serves as an educational space. Lessons about schooling can appear as a pleasurable escape from reality, both reflecting and sometimes distorting the full scope of people\u2019s lived experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Television, film and even children\u2019s picture books shape public perceptions of the teaching profession \u2014 and so does\u00a0<em>The Pitt<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Michael \u201cRobby\u201d Robinavitch (Noah Wyle) mentors a team of nurses and doctors at a teaching hospital. The ER may not be a formal classroom, but what makes\u00a0<em>The Pitt<\/em>\u00a0so intriguing as a case study about education is its setting outside the classroom. Interns learn on the go in a hands-on setting with real-world consequences and problems.<\/p>\n<p>While I cannot comment specifically about the show\u2019s depictions of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/popmedicine\/popmedicine\/115133\">what may be needed for best-practice ER infrastructure and education<\/a>, I\u2019m interested in how the show offers compelling insights around what it means to teach with and through trauma that are relevant for education in schools and at post-secondary levels at large.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>The COVID-19 pandemic<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic looms large in\u00a0<em>The Pitt<\/em>, and flashbacks to one particularly awful day intrude into Dr. Robby\u2019s mind throughout the episodes. Like doctors and nurses, educators were on the front lines during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ucsc.edu\/2025\/01\/post-pandemic-impacts-on-teaching\/\">recent study<\/a>\u00a0highlights the pandemic\u2019s lingering adverse effect on teacher recruitment and retention. Likewise, in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cuanschutz.edu\/news-stories\/how-the-pandemic-traumatized-k-12-educators\">2022 study<\/a>, researchers in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine found that the stressors on K-12 educators led to burnout and other mental health challenges. Attending to the mental health of both students and teachers as part of, rather than outside of, teacher training is a start.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Stereotypes of male educators<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>To fully understand Dr. Robby, it is essential to recognize how his character transcends familiar stereotypes of male educators in popular culture. Familiar tropes include the buffoon (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2128016\/\">Mr. D.<\/a>\u00a0in the show of the same name),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rethinkingschools.org\/2011\/11\/02\/saviors-and-burnouts-rethinking-teachers-in-popular-culture\/\">the burnout<\/a>\u00a0(the teacher in\u00a0<em>Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off<\/em>), the disciplinarian (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/The-Breakfast-Club-film-by-Hughes\">the assistant principal in<\/a>\u00a0<em>The Breakfast Club<\/em>), the maverick (Dewey Finn in\u00a0<em>School of Rock<\/em>, John Keating in\u00a0<em>Dead Poet\u2019s Society<\/em>), the villain (Severus Snape in\u00a0<em>Harry Potter<\/em>) and the wise mentor (Albus Dumbledore in\u00a0<em>Harry Potter<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em>The Pitt\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Dr. Robby doesn\u2019t fit neatly into any of these categories. Specifically, he embraces vulnerability and compassion that expand previous representations of teaching in popular culture.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Robby has more in common with characters like the teacher Justine Gandy in the 2025 film\u00a0<em>Weapons<\/em>\u00a0or Dan Dunne in the 2006\u00a0<em>Half Nelson<\/em>; deeply flawed, yet highly empathetic \u2014 super feelers who connect with the people they teach.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Compassionate teaching methods<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/04\/21\/nx-s1-5352332\/noah-wyle-the-pitt-er\">Struggling with PTSD from<\/a>\u00a0the pandemic and the loss of his mentor, Dr. Robby suffers a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/the-pitt-episode-13-robby-panic-attack\/\">panic attack in Episode 13<\/a>. This background informs Dr. Robby\u2019s compassionate teaching methods, which align with current calls\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nea.org\/professional-excellence\/student-engagement\/tools-tips\/trauma-informed-practices\">for trauma-informed approaches<\/a>\u00a0in education.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Robby leans into trauma on both a social (the pandemic and its aftermath; an epidemic of drug overdoses) and an individual level (the loss of his own mentor to COVID-19 under his watch) as the starting point for instruction.<\/p>\n<p>After 25 years of university teaching, I, too, begin with the assumption that most students are merely holding it together for class as they deal with a range of experiences like personal depression, anxiety, grief and abuse, as well as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-history-of-common-sense-matters-when-caring-for-our-common-home-251428\">collective distress about wildfires, war<\/a>\u00a0and increasing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/businesses-have-a-moral-responsibility-to-stand-up-to-autocrats-263170\">authoritarianism across<\/a>\u00a0the globe.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Cultural diversity<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>The Pitt<\/em>\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=xQO2hAxRK0M&amp;ab_channel=Max\">diverse cast speaks multiple languages and brings different cultural perspectives<\/a>\u00a0to the ER. Dr. Robby\u2019s ability to build on the differences of the interns, doctors and staff endorses equity and inclusion as essential to the art of teaching, especially as DEI initiatives are being dismantled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/rebranding-equity-as-belonging-wont-advance-justice-its-dei-rollback-in-disguise-261730\">or rebranded<\/a>\u00a0across North America.<\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/07\/14\/1111060299\/school-segregation-report\">classrooms in the United States<\/a>\u00a0and Canada are increasingly ethnically and linguistically diverse,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/black-youth-yearn-for-black-teachers-to-disrupt-the-daily-silencing-of-their-experiences-177279\">the teachers are not<\/a>. The ER is stronger because of the differences that the interns bring.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Violence<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/story\/the-pitt-episode-12-exclusive-awards-insider?srsltid=AfmBOoq4kdsq1s3tACgSAPjPMY5tNagZZjVikeAZJH1loNS5jfwbHZcz\">Episode 12, \u201c6:00 p.m.,\u201d a mass shooting at a music festival fills the hospital with victims<\/a>\u00a0who need to be triaged.<\/p>\n<p>Not only in the U.S., but also in Canada, educational systems\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/assets\/gov\/education\/administration\/kindergarten-to-grade-12\/safe-caring-orderly\/emergency-management-guide.pdf\">advise lockdown drills<\/a>. The Aug. 27, 2025,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/08\/28\/us\/victims-annunciation-catholic-school-shooting\">Annunciation Catholic Church shooting<\/a>\u00a0in the U.S. is just one example of how teachers in the U.S. live with the reality and fear of threats from guns. Such threats are not as present across Canadian educational spaces,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/to-resolve-youth-violence-canada-must-move-beyond-policing-and-prison-190825\">but still a reality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And in both health care and schools, such stark eruptions point to wider systemic problems that need to be addressed across society, not only when they become crises.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Robby receives constant pressure to prioritize profits over patient care. Likewise, as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/careerwise.ceric.ca\/2025\/06\/02\/a-love-note-to-post-secondary-career-professionals-in-uncertain-times\/\">post-secondary institutions struggle with financial constraints as they navigate the pandemic\u2019s fallout<\/a>,\u00a0<em>The Pitt<\/em>\u00a0teaches us that now, more than ever, we\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-problem-with-online-learning-it-doesnt-teach-people-to-think-161795\">need to value face-to-face interaction.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Across disciplines, institutions need to provide supports for educators to shape\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/coronavirus-when-teaching-during-a-disaster-students-need-to-be-partners-136695\">emergent curricula co-built with and for the students who show up in our classrooms<\/a>. Students need opportunities in their own communities to work side by side with an experienced mentor, like Dr. Robby, in hands-on, real-world spaces outside of the formal classroom.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>The teacher we need<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Dr. Robby is no John Keating of\u00a0<em>Dead Poets Society<\/em>, and that\u2019s a refreshing break from romanticized ideas about individual teachers saving the day.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Pitt<\/em>\u00a0offers us instead a vulnerable yet compassionate male teacher with fears and flaws like his interns and patients. Dr. Robby is the teacher we all need right now.<\/p>\n<p><em>A<strong>uthor Bio:<\/strong> Elizabeth A. Marshall is Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pitt, HBO Max\u2019s\u00a0Emmy-winning television medical drama, is\u00a0a breakout hit. Medical professionals\u00a0and\u00a0critics\u00a0alike laud the show for its realistic portrayal of an emergency room. 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