Movies in the Classroom

Growing up it was always a big deal if we watched a movie during class. Sometimes after we would finish a book we were reading as a class, we would watch the movie. The movie took up two whole class periods, woo hoo! Not only was it a way to get out of doing boring school work, the movie really helped my learning and understanding of the book.

Watching a movie in class was very rare, it usually only happened once or twice a year. The movies that we did watch, however, still stick out in my mind. I remember the movies and the books very vividly because watching the movie helped me understand the concepts we were learning. I think many teachers are nervous about showing movies in class because they may think it's a waste of time because it takes up so much class time that students could be sitting at a desk learning.

Finding a good movie that correlates with the content students are learning can be difficult. There's a great website called Teach with Movies that helps teachers pick out a movie for students to watch in class that will go with their lesson. Teachers can choose from any subject and category and it gives a list of movies that would go along with the lesson. It's a great tool for teachers!!

The movie that stuck out to growing up was called "Jakob The Liar". We watched it when learning about WWII and I learned so much from the movie and what it was like during that time.

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