https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/35a45ffd-5097-47cc-86b8-7b683fe8cdb1 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com "The American Teacher" is a Forum Edition of the March of Time, released in 1947 for classroom use. It mirrors the content in a more widely released newsreel “The Teachers’ Crisis”. The film discusses the critical role of education in American democracy and the challenges faced by the public school system in the post-WWII period. It emphasizes that true democracy requires citizens who are well-prepared from childhood, which is why the U.S. has developed an extensive public school system. However, the quality of education and the conditions for teachers are major concerns. 00:41 Elementary and Secondary school classes in session. Children listen as teachers instruct. They raise hands, answer questions. At dismissal, children file out of the school building. 01:40 Two men in a parked car wonder about the quality of the teaching in the school as the drivers son enters the vehicle. 02:04 A teacher remains at her desk working after school hours lamenting to a colleague of how overworked she is. 02:32 Another teacher benevolently advises a student. 02:42 The National Education Association building at 1201 16th Street, Washington, DC. Inside, association workers busy themselves at desks. Some rifle through library shelves of books on the school laws of various states, others coordinate mailings of year books for its members, others are in meetings 03:51 Teachers attend training classes. 04:26 Title card noting the history of public school practices. 04:32 Historical footage of a teacher leading his class in a one-room school house teaching English, history, geography, using the drill system. Children who misbehave are chastised. 05:38 Title card noting the contrast in progressive education. 05:44 Columbia University teachers college. Professor William Heard Kilpatrick (1871 - 1965) instructs teachers-in-training on building character and self-reliance in pupils. 06:16 Young students engaged in learning-by-doing techniques, dealing with everyday practical problems, building structures, examining random objects, reading to each other 07:13 First grade children lead each other in a cooking project. They determine ingredients, shop, pay for items, cooperating together to prepare lunch, and eat together. 08:22 Nine year olds manage the school store, overseeing purchases and learning business techniques. 08:35 Middle School children enter the Union Air Terminal in Burbank, California, an observe a Douglas DC-1 in operation, followed by continued study of manual training and commercial geography in class. 08:53 Students at a Port of Los Angeles watch cargo load onto freighters, and study other ships. 09:13 Title card noting the enemies and friends of progressive education. 09:22 Chief critic of progressive education, Dr. William C Bagley (1874 - 1946) at Columbia University addresses his perspective to an audience. 09:47 At a Parent Teachers Association meeting, parents voice to educators their concerns about progressive education. 10:09 Professor John Dewey speaks in defense the notion of preparing children for their future world. 10:38 In Washington, DC, John W. Studebaker leads a meeting at the US Office of Education while at the Chamber of Commerce committee members meet about raising the standards of education in school systems. 11:10 Speakers on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce spread the results to local Chamber of Commerce offices around the US. 11:35 A low income family works around their house while children of impoverished families enter a one-room school house. 12:04 At Garden City Middle School in New York State, a first rate teacher leads an attentive class. 13:16 Harvard University president, Dr. James B Conant, addresses community groups. 14:08 Students on a field trip, standing around a circular railing looking at a large, rotating globe in the Daily News Building in New York City. 14:53 END Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. 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