Motivating The Class

Motivating The Class McGraw-Hill Text-Films - Educational Psychology Series, No. 2 12:00:47 Tracking shot past empty desks, student teacher Bill into 8th-grade classroom, gets ready for lesson; VO by his supervising teacher. Bill puts up sign: ‘”There Is No Royal Road To Mathematics” - Euclid’. Supervisor in - dialogue scene - “a little nervous maybe?” 12:02:45 School kids start arriving & supervisor sits at back. Bill looks at watch & clock, starts but girl comes in late, Bill starts lesson looking nervous: “Mathematics is the queen of the sciences...” - gives history of subject - cutaway to clock 9.05 then 9.15. Bill notices two boys whispering: “am I boring you fellows”?; takes note they were scribbling, CU scientific-looking diagram. “It’s a basketball play we’re working out for Friday’s game”. Bill returns to front of class & carries on lecturing - clock now at 9.30. Draws optical illusion on blackboard. 12:06:41 Two girls caught working on costume designs for school play. “Let’s try to keep our minds on mathematics shall we..as I was saying...” Bill droning on about the letter ‘x’ in math. Fighter jets fly past in formation & students run to window - teacher taps desk. CU supervisor’s face. Kids sit down chatting. Lesson continues, CUs bored kids yawning & doodling; Bill pats forehead w/ handkerchief, kid flips spitball.Bell rings & kids file out. 12:09:17 Supervisor talks w/ Bill, analyses failings of lesson. Bill says he teaches math because he’s interested in “order and beauty”. Supervisor tells him he ignored the pupils interests & kept them “barricaded” in their seats - gives advice for next day’s lesson. 12:12:30 Next day, kids sit down for math class. Bill takes different approach & suddenly a perfect teacher: uses model airplane, asks speed of sound. Two girls who were designing costumes brought to front of class wearing dresses w/ vertical & horizontal stripes to show how numbers can be disguised: “Alice here appears to be tall & thin while Betty appears to be short & plump...actually they are the same height & have same waistline” - class applauds. 12:15:21 Math class doing outdoor project, timing runner. Bill showing class educational film on projector. Models built by class awarded prizes. Graph ‘Math Progress - Weekly Class Average’ - Chart ‘Mathematics Is My Business’ showing careers that use math. Supervisor says in VO: Bill “repeatedly appealed to their need for beauty and harmony”. Kids do group work around classroom. 12:17:33 Supervisor compliments Bill who is called down to gym by student. Supervisor removes picture covering Bill’s Euclid quote - “who is this guy Euclid, anyway?” Mathematics; Teaching Instruction; Teacher Training; Junior High School; Dialogue; Boredom; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.