The Life of a First Year Teacher
February 21st, 2008 by Jan CalChannel surfing PBS stations over the weekend, I caught a program (”Telling the Truth: The Best in Broadcast Journalism“) about this year’s Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. What really caught my attention, in part because of my own enthusiasm about our Urban Education Semester program here at Venture, was the feature about a first-year teacher in an inner-city public middle school. Dateline NBC miked her up, filled her classroom with cameras, and filmed her throughout her first year of teaching. It was captivating; days later, I find myself still thinking of her. Google’s loaded with pages about the documentary: “The Education of Ms Groves” — catch it if you can!
June 19th, 2008 at 10:13 am
How can I get a copy of this tape?
June 19th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Here are some web sites I gleaned by googling the day after the PBS program
http://www.tvweek.com/news/2007/06/nbc_news_dateline_the_educatio.php
http://0-today.msnbc.msn.com.millennium.unicatt.it/id/14456217/ This link has *lots* of material about the story — the Dateline piece won the award; it *looks* like there will also be a full-length documentary made based on all the material . . .
http://0-today.msnbc.msn.com.millennium.unicatt.it/id/14533333/ (this appears to be the transcript of the award-winning Dateline piece)
If you just google “The Education of Ms Groves” you get pages of links