The Broader Concept of Method (1947)

Director
Producer	Caravel Films, distributed by McGraw-Hill
Contributors	Technical planning consultant, Raleigh Schorling ; script consultant, Howard Batchelder ; educational advisors, L.O. Andrews, E. Carleton Moore. “Correlated with Schorling’s Student teaching.”
Length	n/a (two reels)
B&W/Color	b&w
UO Library Catalog description:	Presents a picture of the teacher-dominated, lesson-hearing type of recitation, and shows typical effects of this method on student attitudes, responses, and learning; and compares formal recitation with the informal, group-discussion type of class sessions in which students are permitted to share in the planning of their work.
Call #	FILM Mb9
Genre	instructional
Rare	no
Online	no
Copyright status	public domain
Physical condition	good
Oregon-related	no

Notes:

Meant to accompany Schorling’s textbook. He was pretty progressive for his time, and even more progressive for ours – here’s his 1946 proposal for a Teacher Bill of Rights, with allowances for small classes, good materials and human-scaled classrooms.