[SENco-forum] FW: Media: Real Story: The Teacher Squad (BBC1, 7pm, 13 Dec)

Chris wrote:

I can't really believe the teaching shown on the programme was a
representative sample.

I somehow think the programme didn't give the full picture.

Absolutely. We must be very careful in the asumptions we make about the
school/teachers based on this programme. These programmes are full of bias.
The director would have decided BEFORE they even started filming what take
they wanted for the programme, ie what they want us the viewers to decide
about the intervention.

Many years ago - 1979, a 'fly on the wall' documentary, one of the first of
its kind, was made about the school I attended in London.  I had left the
year before for a teacher training college in B'ham.  They spent three weeks
there filming endless hours of tape.  For the programme they chose the
'worst lessons' they had.  They showed the school to be a rough,
disorganised, disruptive school.  At college my lecturers gleefully showed
the programme to our year as an example of a badly run, inner london
comprehensive!  To say I was not a happy bunny was an understatement.

The Media constantly manipulate us and what we think.

Richard