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Elementary School Teaching and Education (7)

  • Back To School
    Back To School
    Ollie Coombs 2020 5 min
    In Brampton, Ontario, eldest sibling Ollie Coombs documents the lives of their brother Nicolas (15) and sister Natalie (11), while they wait for the provincial government to announce it’s “back to school” policies for the upcoming year. This film offers a fresh glimpse into the day-to-day experience of one family living in the suburbs of greater Toronto, as Ollie interviews their siblings about school and the impact of the pandemic.
  • Hope Builders
    Hope Builders
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    Fernand Dansereau 2010 1 h 29 min
    This feature documentary zooms in on a Grade 6 class in Quebec where a teacher is implementing an experimental teaching method aimed at preparing children to take up environmental challenges. Over the course of a year, Dominique Leduc’s students will learn to identify, analyze and resolve a problem that exists in their world. They also learn about the uncertainty faced by those who want change.
  • Mathematics at Your Fingertips
    Mathematics at Your Fingertips
    John Howe 1961 27 min
    In today's classrooms various new ways are being tried to put children more at ease with numbers. This film shows one such system developed by a Belgian schoolmaster, Georges Cuisenaire. He carefully designed sets of coloured sticks to help children grasp simple mathematical relationships. (Originally released under the title Numbers in Colour.)
  • Miss Campbell: Ilinniatitsijiujik (Inuktitut Version)
    Miss Campbell: Ilinniatitsijiujik (Inuktitut Version)
    Heather Campbell 2023 15 min
    Ilanginit unikkausingit amma ilangangit allatausimajunik, Miss Campbell: Ilinniatitsijiujik ilititsisimajutluni Heatheriup minguanguaminik âlluanguanik nanunik, puijinik amma timmianik taggajâmillu angiggamini, ilagengillu atjinguaminik amma pinguanik tigumiagasuajumik ominga annasiagâlummik takunnâtaujumik inosinganik. From a young age, Evelyn Campbell possessed a keen sense of justice. At residential school, she helped her fellow student’s study and pass exams, an experience that forged her desire to be a teacher.

    InosittuKajumik Evelyn Campbelli KaujimajutsuaKattalauttuk ajuKittiujuni maligatsaminik. Ilinniavialumeligami ikajuKattalauttuk sugusinik suliaKapvignanit ilinniavimi,amma kajusitlutik ilinniagatsaminit, pillualaugami ikajutluni kaguginimik ilinniatitsijiugiamik.
  • Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher
    Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher
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    Heather Campbell 2023 15 min
    Part oral history and part visual poem, Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher is the story of Evelyn Campbell, a trailblazer for an Inuit-led educational system in the small community of Rigolet, Labrador.
  • Unspoken Tears (Trauma Through Words)
    Unspoken Tears (Trauma Through Words)
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    Hélène Magny 2022 1 h 15 min
    How can refugee children integrate into Quebec’s school system, given the unspeakable violence they’ve experienced? Following a psychologist specializing in conflict-related trauma, Unspoken Tears pays tribute to the admirable resilience and survival strategies of these “small adults,” whose spirit the bombs and camps have not completely crushed, at a time when it is vital to raise awareness in Western societies of migration-related issues and children’s rights.
  • Your Country, My Country
    Your Country, My Country
    Marquise Lepage 1993 6 min
    English version of a film about a friendship between two ten-year-old Montréal schoolkids. She is black and serious, he is white and rather nonchalant, and they look at life in different ways!

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