A teacher chronicles his final year working in a school with a large underprivileged population.
When 5th-grader Amelia receives an assignment to write one thing unique about her, she sets out to make herself different from her identical twin sister.
Doctor Misterio, of PBS fame, shares some of his eccentric and resourceful ways to have fun with his audience of young children. They respond with enthusiasm to his zany antics and unusual ideas for projects and games. In this program, the kids make a sea-worthy boat out of a plastic bleach bottle, fashion a pressman's hat out of paper, and practice extemporaneous speaking for the entertainment of their friends.
J and Jacky are good friends who attend the same school. J is from a single-parent family, and will be taken care by Jacky’s family whenever his mother has to return to Mainland to renew her visa; such kind of story is not an isolated case. These families have been uprooted for a “better future” in Hong Kong, but is this “future” that the children really long to have? A Chinese saying: “How does one understand the joy of fish, if one is not a fish?” Will the adults really understand what the children want?
Primary school aged Orville has a fascination for model planes which intensifies when he encounters Harry who owns a sadly neglected but real Tiger Moth. Orville becomes obsessed with the notion that the Tiger might fly once more and the adventure begins when he and Harry set out to achieve that goal.
A look at the trials and tribulations of school and childhood.
A short documentary about the behaviour of Japanese primary school students.
The very first documentary about Jane Elliott's educational experiment about discrimination, which was originally produced for ABC News, in which she conducts an unforgettable lesson with her third-grade class in Riceville, Iowa.
In his crusade for literacy, principal Ray Brown enlisted the help of the community and broke through the cycle of illiteracy in a small Newfoundland fishing village. He turned the struggling elementary school into a place where students were eager to learn and instilled in parents a sense of hope for their children's future.
A young boy has just moved to America from a foreign country with his mother. He tries to adjust to his new life, specifically in his school. He goes to an American school, and he's the only foreigner in his class. The only English phrase he knows is "No Problem," which he picked up from a cartoon show.
Zlatko Kovač, a provincial professor, gets the job in the big city's school, only to find out that his red-employment is not random. Professor Toth, the man he replaced, has died under the strange circumstances. Kovac meets a variety of strange people in his school's collective, and it was not long before they came up with the new body. However, the police is unable to solve the case, but he takes the matter into his own hands and setting a trap for a murderer on a school manifestation.
By giving non-traditional answers, Pi Pi Lu is seen as a disruptive student by his teacher, Ms. Xu. In her view, only tamed students could be good students. One by one, all students become tame rabbits under Ms. Xu's encouragement and education. Pi Pi Lu is the only one in the class who refuses to be a rabbit. Can Ms. Xu's all-rabbit-class dream come true?
Toño trusts by opening soda cans he will be able to meet the girl of his dreams.
Amidst rumors that the spirit of a student, who committed suicide years ago, appears in the photography club darkroom, high school sophomore Yuri borrows a mysterious horror manga from her elusive but studious senior, Miwako.
This explosive celebration of children's creativity follows the lives of students and their teachers in a peculiar yet somewhat recognizable primary school. When Jose Maria, more apt at lecturing fine arts at university than controlling a primary classroom, fills in his new post as art teacher, chaos seems on the verge of unleashing itself. However, the path that his young and infinitely imaginative little students take him through shows him there's more than a little he can learn from them, and a new life to discover...
Intimate drama, written and directed by Idris Elba, and based on his own life experiences. An asthmatic boy is suddenly and unexpectedly moved to a school for youngsters with learning difficulties.
Daniel arrives at school wearing brand-new sneakers from America, gifted to him by his father. When he sees another boy wearing the same sneakers, he begins to suspect that their shoes are the key to a terrible secret.