TEACHING TECHNIQUES

Teaching Techniques: Film and History

Teaching Techniques

Teaching has been long influenced with the notion of spreading knowledge, education and learning towards people of all ages and sizes. For all those individuals who have been working long and hard in the understanding, methodology, delivery and improvement of the teaching systems, they have made through contributions for the analysis, realization and have tried to make a mark of the contributions they have done in the field of educational and learning respectively (Adler, 1981).

Teaching and Learning shall help us mould the future of tomorrow, which shall help us identify the purpose and objective of making significant amends and also help us identify the leaders of tomorrow, who shall keenly display and portray effective traits of leadership respectively. Today more than ever, the concept of leadership takes effect as an indissoluble part of the development of culture that is growing in each of the organizations in which man expresses, under new symbols and manifestations, the state of society in which they live (Adler, 1981).

Leadership is a phenomenon recognized by all but rarely stated and shared, it gets to the point of being considered as a challenge to the old remember youth, and parents yearn for, the police search, the experts claim, the artists disdain, the scholars wish, the philosophers reconcile with the term freedom of theologians to reconcile with the consciousness of politicians allege and bureaucrats have claimed to possess.

The truth is that both sides, especially the latter (the leaders) need to mobilize human talent, the ability to think and act to implement change processes generally frustrated by the limited role assigned to individuals as a participant other decisions that affect or involve the majority, these cases leading operating crisis paralyzing or undermining the development of any organization (Arnheim, 1969).

Teaching through film: A new medium of education

As we excel into the world of modern day technologies and at the same time excel in the area of education and educating students, people now look for different avenues of delivering quality education and discussions to individuals for the purpose and objective of improving the current reputation of intellect and the comprehension level of individuals (Arnheim, 1969).

When it comes to educating individuals, it has been discussed in history and is being currently worked on that, what methods, tools and techniques need to be understood and comprehended to make it easier for individuals and students easier to grasp the gist of a particular subject or area of study and at the same time, keep them motivated to learn and study regarding the whereabouts of understanding the context of the subject.

This is especially true whenever and wherever history is being discussed at length. Teachers have been long comfortable using certain kinds of film with reference to context of the subject. For instance, for politics, films and masterpieces like Forest Gump (1994) and JFK (1991) have been referred and iteratively played in classes in order for students to learn and absorb the ebbs and flows ...