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Anna Leonowens, teacher and tutor to the children of Mongkut, King of Siam, portrayed in the 1946 film Anna and the King of Siam, a 1956 film and a 1999 film both entitled The King and I, and the 1999 film Anna and the King; Mary Kay Letourneau, high school teacher, portrayed in the made-for-TV-movie All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau ...
Teaching to See is a 2012 educational documentary film about graphic design and teaching of Inge Druckrey and some of her students and colleagues. Directed by Andrei Severny and produced by Edward Tufte, it was released in July 2012 and was screened in New York, [1] Boston, [2] Phoenix, [3] Toronto, [4] Reykjavík, [5] Philadelphia, [6] Stanford, [7] [8] and New Haven.
Maestra is a 33-minute documentary film directed by Catherine Murphy, about the youngest women teachers of the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign. In 1961, Cuba aimed to eradicate illiteracy in one year. It sent 250,000 volunteers across the island to teach reading and writing in rural communities for one year. 100,000 of the volunteers were under 18 ...
Accident (1967 film) Adam at 6 A.M. Adoration (2008 film) The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad; The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D; After School Massacre; After.Life; Akeelah and the Bee; The Alien (unproduced film) All I Wanna Do (1998 film) All Things Fair; Alone (1931 Soviet film) Always Trouble with the Teachers; American ...
One day, a reporter comes to do a story on the school, and is impressed at how much the children know. He assumes that Collins has personally chosen advanced children from the city, and is shocked to learn that Collins knew few of the children before their first day of school, and many had been failing in learning disability classes.
[2] [3] It can also be used to build public speaking skills such as voice projection and poise. [4] Variants of show and tell have been used to teach vocabulary. [5] Although often thought of as an activity for younger children, teachers have described successfully bringing it into classrooms of students in middle and even secondary grades.
Front of the Class is a 2008 American docudrama film directed by Peter Werner that is based on the 2005 book Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had by Brad Cohen and co-authored by Lisa Wysocky, which tells of Cohen's life with Tourette syndrome and how it inspired him to teach other students.
Teachers who saw the film also said it was a very accurate portrayal of the teaching profession. Chalk was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award from the Independent Spirit Awards in 2006. It also won Outstanding Performance by Ensemble Cast (Narrative Competition) at the 2006 Los Angeles film festival.