See and hear : the journal on audio-visual learning (1945)

School and the Community: 14 min., B W—$65; color—$125; McGraw- Hill. • The traditional wooden sihoolhouse symbolizes an outmoded educational system that is isolated from the com- munity. But school and community working together can produce an edu- cational process geared to students' needs; methods for achieving this are demonstrated. Who Will Teach Your Child? 24 min., B/W, $100; McGraw-Hill. • Raises important issues on the sub- ject of teacher education—how to at- tract people of ability, how they can best be trained, and how to encourage good teachers to remain in their pro- fession. In a series of classroom situ- ations we see what teaching means to different teachers. Skillful guidance is the combined job of educational in- stitutions. The American Teacher: 15 min., B/W, $80; McGraw-Hill. • Makes clear the responsibility of the American citizen for the kind of education his community provides, and demonstrates the pros and cons of "progressive education," emphasizing what all good teachers know—that good teaching methods are, in the last analysis, individual, and that teach- ing involves developing pupils' ability to think as well as to absorb facts. Teacher Training Broader Concept of Method, Part I: "Developing Pupil Interest": 13 min., B/W, $80; McGraw-Hill. • A picture of the teacher-dominated, lesson-hearing type of recitation. Shows typical effects of this method in terms of student attitudes, responses and learning, then shows alternative techniques to achieve broader ob- jectives. Broader Concept of Method. Part II; "Teacher and Pupils Planning and Working Together": 19 min., B W. $95; McGraw-Hill. • Some aspects of group participation —organizing into functional groups, making and carrying out plans for in- vestigations, presenting findings, etc. —and some results in terms of devel- oping self expression and the ability to evaluate. Importance of Goals: 19 min., B/W, Stto; McGraw-Hill. • Tommy's keen interest in his out- side activities demonstrate to his teacher his need for proper motiva- tion. With the possibility of a post in the Safety Patrol Tommy's work takes on new meaning . Individual Differences: 2-3 min., B/W, $100; McGraw-Hill. • Emphasizing the importance of rec- ognizing individual differences, the film contrasts two brothers and shows methods one teacher eventually used to deal with them. Learning to Understand Children, Part I: "A Diagnostic Approach": 21 min., B/W, $100; McGraw-Hill. • The case study of a maladjusted irfteen-year-old girl, the teacher's ef- forts to help her, and diagnostic tech- niques used for the formulation of remedial measures. Learning to Understand Children, Part II; "A Remedial Program": 23 min., B/W, $100; McGraw-Hill. • The teacher's plan which helps to improve the girl's confidence and in- terest in her school work and win recognition and acceptance from her classmates. Maintaining Classroom Discipline: 14 min., B/W, $80; McGraw-Hill. • By contrasting methods of handling the same class, this film explores tech- niques for securing proper class con- duct and attitude. .Motivating the Cla.ss: 19 min., B/W, .*y5; McGraw-Hill. • A young student teacher sees wider implications of mathematics for his students, but is unable to translate these values until suggestions from his supervising teacher show him how to plan for learning situations. Problem of Pupil Adjustment, Part I; "The Drop-Out": 20 min., B W, $95; McGraw-Hill. • Story of a boy who quit school be- cause he was unable to relate his school work to outside life. Problem of Pupil Adjustment, Part II; "The Stay-In": 19 min., B/W, $95; McGraw-Hill. • An actual school program where in- dividual needs are met, not only in actual subject matter but in academic classes as well. Under this program, "drop-outs" are less than 5 percent of the total student population. Child Psychology Child Care and Development: 17 min., B/W, $80; McGraw-Hill. • Correct attitudes and procedures for establishing good habits of everyday living. Children's Emotions: 22 min., B/W, $100; McGraw-Hill. • The major childhood emotions: curi- osity, fear, anger, jealousy and joy. The major causes of fear at different age levels. He Acts His Age: 13 min., B/W—$65; color—S120; McGraw-Hill. • The child's development from one to fifteen years. A photographic rec- ord of children responding to typical situations in a manner characteristic of their particular stage of develop- ment. Helping Your Child to Emotional Se- curity: series of three films, B/W; sale—apply Seminar Films. • Three one-reel pictures present fif- teen separate episodes, each showing, first, a typical everyday occurrence as it is all too often mishandled in the home; then reenacting the same incident as it might be handled with good will, good humor, and good sense. Heredity and Pre-Natal Development: 21 min., B W, $10U; McGraw-Hill. • Growth, subdivision and union of male and female eel's. Rolo o<" Chmnio- somes and genes. Fertilization of the ovum by the sperm cell at conception and development of the fetus. Life with Baby: 18 min., B/W, $80; McGraw-Hill. • Candid-camera sequences, photo- graphed through a one-way vision dome, show how children grow and how younger babies respond to stand- ard tests. Under the direction of Dr. Arnold Gesell, the Y'ale University Child Development Clinic has estab- lished definite standards of develop- ment for children up to six years. A March of Time film. Life with Junior: li< min., B/W, $80; McGraw-Hill. • A typical day in the life of a ten- year-old. Such common problems such as acceptance of the new brother and Junior's refusal to eat are pictured in sequences made in cooperation with the Child Study Association of Amer- ica. A March of Time film. Principles of Development: 17 min., B/W, $85; McGraw-Hill. • Fundamentals of growth and change from early infancy. Six basic prin- ciples of development—the variables that makes each child different. Social Development: 16 min., B/W, S80; McGraw-Hill. • Social behavior at different age levels and reasons underlying changes in behavior patterns as the child de- velops. Terrible Twos and Tru.sting Threes: 20 min., B/W—$90: color—$160; McGraw-Hill. • The two-year-old's never-ceasing activity, insatiable curiosity, response to distraction rather than reasoning, etc. The three-year-old's purposeful activity, consciousness of social ap- proval, interest in practicing newly- acquired skills. To Meet a Problem Time for Television: 2 reels, B/W, $85; Seminar Films. • Presents the gradual, self-inflicted isolation a young boy incurs because of his overriding fascination with tele- vision. Also shows how he finally realizes how much he has been losing and begins to work out his own way of letting television take its place as a natural part of his daily life. Annual Fall Inventorv • 1952 19