AV Geeks Lunch 8-25

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] do so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so hello everybody i'm skip alzheimer welcome to the av geeks lunchtime streaming show where we watch old 16 millimeter films and we scratch our heads and say hmm what was that all about uh that last film was development of the smile and the fear of strangers um it's a film about some experiments that they did with a bunch of babies where they tried to figure out like when is it that babies start smiling uh and when is it i guess to based on external stimulus and when is it do they start showing fear um and is it culturally affected so you could see that they were trying to um look at different uh ethnic backgrounds cultural backgrounds to figure out like is there a difference you know so wonderful footage probably i don't know if it was traumatizing ultimately uh for the babies um i hope that they vetted all this but anyways it's it's interesting documentation and it's something i've always wanted to do was a film about strangers um called requiem for a stranger where i showed all the dangerous stranger films including and then showing this one as kind of a setup of like when are we afraid to stand straight um because you know dave has made an entire career based on that uh all right so this is a speech made by the ceo of ge and um you can tell maybe that they had a tough year based on this speech so here's ge best buy speech when i joined general electric one of the main reasons i came aboard was because even in those days i could recognize that the people i met in general electric were good people the kind one could really enjoy working with in the forty years since i've gained two unshakable convictions about the men and women of ge first that no other company in the world is blessed with so many talented people as general electric is and second general electric men and women can do anything they set their hearts and minds to do and do it better than anyone else i've expressed these convictions many times and talking to ge men and women and to outside groups and each time i have the opportunity to visit with general electric men and women this belief is renewed but there never was a better time than now 1972 to show what the ge monogram really stands for as we look at the world about us people are confused not just the united states but all over the world people are questioning former values and former standards we're seeing across the world a change in the whole value system people want things they didn't think of demanding a few years ago and they want them all right now and yet they sense that this just can't be the result of all of this has been confusion and doubt we've seen widespread inflation and too much unemployment worldwide and right here at home inflation is not just in the prices of products and services that you and i buy it's also in the taxes we pay for the inflated services we demand of our governments inflation is a sum of all the inflated costs all along the line and this is why the creative ideas of 400 000 general electric men and women can make a real contribution fred borch or anyone else can possibly know as much as you do about how to improve productivity and lower costs in your own operations the challenge is to spin out these ideas and then to take the action to put them into effect other industries badly need the kind of improved productive equipment that ge folks build so that they too can lower their costs become more competitive and so build their sales and more jobs for their people and let's not forget that consumer customers need newer and better ge products to make their lives at home better and fuller but confusion and uncertainty don't create good customers and businessmen sensing the uncertainty of their customers have been reluctant to make the investments that improve productivity and provide the jobs and this adds up to what we might label a crisis of confidence we need to discover once again that a company of four hundred thousand fine people can move forward faster in improving productivity in providing the tops in quality and giving folks the very best in the way of service and in going all out to demonstrate that we're good citizens and that we truly contribute to the societies of which we are apart when we do all these things we're truly providing the one priceless commodity that's made general electric what it is today value not only in products and services but value in those intangibles that mean so much to the spirits of all people and who knows if we do this job as well as only four hundred thousand general electric people can do it we just might provide that spark of leadership that others can follow and all can march forward with us with a sense of urgency with a sense of drive with a sense of enthusiasm with rekindle spirits and say to hell with the harbingers of uncertainty and the prophets of doom the source of the single greatest contribution to our business performance is the four hundred thousand men and women of general electric and no one knows better than i what you are capable of accomplishing it's up to you to light the fuse that can get us and the united states moving again so let's make ge the best buy in the respect and in the affections and in the hearts of all who view the general electric monogram anywhere in the world for that monogram is really you so this was a purchase on ebay and so i don't have context for this um i don't know if this was shown to employees was it shown to shareholders um or maybe both it was you know it's like hey we're going through a rough time so um we're gonna buckle down and pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and we're gonna do great um and he keeps talking about 400 000 jobs so i don't know what that's referring to like usually because he's talked about he said it a couple of times so i don't know if there were a bunch of layoffs or you know what they had to do um certainly that was probably during a recession um and also um it's possible it was also during uh a time when uh you know japanese brands were beginning to uh snipe away at american brands i'm not sure don't know but fascinating nonetheless uh i got something oh kevin thank you so much for the coffee um very kind gift uh you can buy us coffee at buy me a coffee dot com slash av geeks um and we will brew coffee and we will drink it and we will let the magic that is caffeine wash through our nervous systems um so i got set up behind me i did it right this time a film on our telecity and um it's a film i haven't watched so this is earthquakes and volcanoes it's a revised edition enjoy [Music] [Music] of all the forces acting upon the surface of the earth earthquakes and volcanoes are the most dramatic spectacular in newsreel scenes we can see the violence of mount vesuvius in eruption the energy released here in one day is almost that of the first atom bomb in 1944 a wall of lava from mount vesuvius descended upon the town of san sebastian [Music] sicily's mount etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world eruptions have become major tourist attractions however lava flows such as this have threatened to burn several nearby villages the destructive action of the volcano is like that of an earthquake a major earthquake in southern california caused much damage particularly to this hospital earthquakes and volcanic eruptions frequently take place in the same parts of the earth's surface to understand why this is so it is necessary to know how the earth was formed according to one theory the earth was once a ball of hot gases and molten material for millions of years this material boiled and bubbled [Music] gradually it began to cool as it cooled the heaviest of the materials that make it up slowly move to the center and a thin crust of rock formed around the outside the earth as it appears today is the result of millions or billions of years of change this is a diagram of the earth as it might look if you sliced it in half the earth is made up of at least three different kinds of rock materials in the center there is a solid very heavy iron and nickel core about six thousand four hundred kilometers across around this core there is a thick layer of heavy rock the mantle about three thousand two hundred kilometers thick on top of this heavy rock is the very thin and very light crust upon which we live this crust varies in thickness from 11 to 50 kilometers scientists believe that the earth's crust is divided into large sections which float on the mantle these sections are called plates in some places the plates move and when they separate new material from the mantle fills in the gap when the material from the mantle cools it becomes part of the earth's crust in other places one plate overrides the other and pushes it down into the earth's mantle the black lines in this map show where scientists believe the earth's crust is divided into plates [Music] we'll use modeling clay to represent the earth's crust and simulate its movement tremendous forces and pressures acting upon the crust may throw it up into folds like this in this way perhaps mountains are formed as this folding occurs cracks appear in the rocky crust sometimes breaking it down into huge blocks where blocks of earth move along these cracks the cracks are called faults here is a diagram of the earth's light crust and underlying heavy rock in this diagram the black broken line represents a crack or fault in the earth over thousands of years the mountain on the right is worn down the weathered materials of its slopes are carried away by wind and water to be deposited layer upon layer in the lower neighboring basin on the left the block of earth from which material has been worn away loses weight and the block on which material has been deposited gains weight when the difference in weight between them becomes great enough they move in opposite directions the block on the right moves up the one on the left moves down they slip along a crack or fault the movement of these huge blocks of earth crust causes earthquakes because of the release of pressure under the block that moves up a pool or reservoir of melted rock may form deep below the surface if this melted rock is near a fault or weak spot in the crust it may be squeezed or forced out onto the surface we call this a volcanic eruption here is an active volcano in hawaiian [Music] islands escaping gases hurl melted rock or lava high into the air this is called a spatter cone the temperature of this molten rock is greater than 1000 degrees celsius the rock bubbles and boils as it oozes from volcanic vents [Laughter] flowing lava destroys everything in its path grass and wood are set on fire by the lava [Music] [Music] [Music] the hot liquid flows like a river at speeds up to 50 kilometers per hour carrying everything in its path the river of white hot rock cuts its own bed as it races downhill [Music] as hot lava streams into a cold area it produces great billowing clouds of steam many active volcanoes are found lining the great basin of the pacific forming a great circle of fire active volcanoes are also found along the mountainous edges of many continents and on islands and mountains building from the floor of the world's oceans we know that these regions mark places where the giant plates that make up the earth's surface collide and fold as they move on the thin crust a giant ridge in the atlantic marks a line where the earth's surface is moving outward on each side it is along these lines that much of today's volcanic action takes place earthquakes are the results of movements of great blocks of earth crust along the faults the resulting release of pressure may cause the underlying rock to melt if this is near a fault or weak spot in the crust it may be forced out to cause a volcanic eruption such action often takes place where the earth's crust is weakened by the collision of the surface plates both earthquakes and volcanoes are evidence of the same forces the forces constantly at work changing the face of the earth great i love the uh kind of creepy electronic music in the background um just makes everything just puts everything on edge uh a little bit uh speaking of the earth here's a film about uh explorers of outer space earth satellites enjoy [Music] now [Music] in october 1957 the world entered the space age at that time a multi-stage rocket took off from a launching site in russia as each rocket stage burned out the next one fired the last one launched the world's first artificial satellite called the sputnik one the early satellites both russian and american confirmed the work of scientists in many parts of the world the first american satellite was called the explorer one its performance and that of other satellites was predicted by applying natural laws which scientists have learned through the years what are some of these laws surely you've done this as long as the ball goes fast enough it's held out by its speed and pulls the string tight the faster the ball whirls the stronger the pull on the string earth satellite is a free-moving body circling the earth it is held out by its speed and is held in by an imaginary string the force of gravity the closer to the earth the faster the satellite must go to overcome the increased pull of gravity if you don't whirl the ball fast enough eventually it drops let's look at this another way suppose there's a tremendously high mountain above the earth's atmosphere where there's no friction with air suppose that on it there's a gun [Music] a shot will soon be pulled to earth by gravity even though its speed is not reduced by air friction if we use more powder the shot will travel farther before it's pulled to earth but a charge that's just big enough will send the shot just fast enough so that the curve of its drop is exactly the same as the curve of the earth since we've assumed that we're above air friction speed isn't reduced therefore the shot returns to the point where it was fired with the same speed it started with and so continues to circle the earth indefinitely as a satellite if still more powder is added to the charge the satellite goes so fast that it moves away from the earth for a while but then is pulled back and keeps repeating this path this is an elliptical orbit instead of a circular orbit if the gun isn't exactly horizontal the same thing happens only a horizontal launch at a precise speed produces a circular orbit now instead of a gun let's use a rocket to launch our satellite it's a very big rocket since there are no mountains high enough to reach above the earth's atmosphere the rocket itself must go that high in order to launch its satellite just how high is this we've learned a great deal about the structure of the earth's atmosphere the first six to ten miles we call the troposphere which means turbulent this is the dense churning layer close to earth it thins out to become the stratosphere a stratified region that extends about 50 miles up then we reach the ionosphere and even thinner region which extends some 150 miles up beyond this single molecules and atoms thin out into outer space earth satellites can take various forms the explorer was encased in a rocket shell which also included fuel for the final burst of speed at its base it was attached to other rockets which would carry it to the necessary height the vanguard satellite was shaped like a ball spun out of metal the first vanguard satellite was not this big [Applause] [Music] the satellite shell is carefully fabricated to contain a complex assortment of devices for getting information and sending it back to earth this is part of the brain of the vanguard satellite its many electronic circuits are powered by solar batteries solar batteries produce electricity from the action of sunlight they operate the measuring devices and radio transmitters inside the satellite the information which is broadcast back to earth is recorded for further study this is the brain of the explorer satellite [Applause] different types of measuring devices are sent up in various satellites depending on the information scientists are trying to get at the time here is the explorer satellite carefully covered being hoisted to the top of the jupiter c rocket for installation the first satellite launchings used multi-stage rockets that is a number of rockets fastened together each one firing after the other has burned out leaving the burned out rocket behind this rocket uses liquid fuel in its large first stage and solid fuel for the other stages to enable the fuel to burn at high altitudes the first stage uses liquid oxygen which is extremely cold takeoff of a rocket like this requires a careful checkout procedure taking many hours called a countdown it is conducted from a nearby [Applause] two blockhouse one two three four [Applause] the early stages of the rockets flight are tracked by ground instruments since we can't take a motion picture camera along into outer space let's observe an imaginary three-stage launching by using animated models the fuel in the large first stage burns out after about two and a half minutes sending the rocket very high then the first stage is left behind as the second stage takes over in thinner atmosphere with less gravity the second stage greatly increases the speed and height of the rocket this stage often contains the guiding devices that put the rocket into the correct path for launching the satellite now the nose cone is released it protected the satellite against the extreme heat of air friction a motor makes the satellite spin to give it stability with the rocket at the necessary height the final stage fires briefly to produce the great speed needed for orbit the satellite is then ejected and if all has gone well it goes into orbit with the rocket casing trailing it how high must the satellite go to stay in orbit at a minimum of 150 miles up air friction will bring it down in several weeks at 500 miles or more it might well stay up for centuries our first satellites have shown that the orbits must be higher than we thought it first because of unexpected air density at high altitudes how fast must a satellite go this depends on its distance from the earth the moon our only natural satellite is about a quarter million miles away and travels at the comparatively slow speed of about twenty two hundred miles an hour closer to the earth where the gravity pole is greater a satellite must go faster at about twenty five thousand miles out a speed of seventy five hundred miles an hour is needed this satellite will circle the earth once every day at 1100 miles out a satellite must go about 16 000 miles an hour to stay in orbit it will circle the earth about every two hours so there are many convenient orbits we can try to reach when sending up a satellite here is some of the information about outer space that the first satellites radioed back to earth danger from meteor impact very slight density of air at high altitudes greater than expected temperatures extremely hot and cold on the outer surfaces of the satellite but inside 50 to 80 degrees a comfortable range for man danger from radiation in space much greater than expected this is the kind of information which was monitored from the first satellite's radio signals do satellites have practical uses one suggestion is that several of them equipped with television cameras can report continuously on worldwide weather conditions they can also be used to rebroadcast television to the whole world at once but this is only the beginning already rockets have taken animals into space to prepare for the day when man himself will make the trip these films taken in an actual rocket during a trip into space proved that mice can survive launching and can stand conditions of weightlessness caused by zero gravity as shown here by the floating ball men have been dropped out of high-flying bombers in rocket aircraft to probe extremely high altitudes and high speeds in a new field of research called space medicine men are being tested for the hardships of rocket acceleration and other difficulties they may encounter in space travel we have designed spacesuits to keep up the pressure on the body to withstand extreme temperatures to feed in oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide we are testing men under many conditions that they may eventually have to face in space travel already many plans are being advanced for the coming age of man in space one plan calls for prefabricated parts to be shot into orbit to be assembled there into a giant space platform it will include a great hollow wheel about 250 feet across pressurized inside with living quarters and working space [Music] this wheel will spin around three times a minute the force of this motion will furnish a kind of substitute gravity for the people inside there will be storage tanks for food water and other materials power may come from solar mirrors focused onto boilers indeed it may be possible to focus solar mirrors onto parts of the earth to influence weather conditions there here in outer space is a natural vacuum for scientific experiments bigger and better than any man has been able to create on earth here beyond the interference of the earth's atmosphere is an ideal observatory that astronomers have long hoped for in outer space we can build a spaceship entirely different from any known on earth since this ship will not have to contend with the earth's thick atmosphere and strong gravity with this kind of ship we may be able to explore far into our solar system these are some of the plans being advanced for the coming space age fantastic who can say wouldn't our present uses of electricity have seemed fantastic when electricity was first discovered we have entered the space age where we go from here only man's imagination and ingenuity will tell [Music] [Music] it's so exciting like that film was made very long ago uh post sputnik but it's so exciting it it really just kind of makes you go yeah space yeah which is not what i felt when i watched richard branson go into space it didn't feel the same i think that um yeah it i think that his program is tourist-based and it's not the same not the same um and uh you know we talked about billionaires in space um you know it was billionaire companies in space prior to that um but i still think astronauts you know richard branson's people are not astronauts he's not an astronaut uh and i think actually the faa said that he wasn't an astronaut he certainly didn't go high enough he actually didn't um and i think that uh jeff bezos also didn't get high enough compared to how high the spacex rockets go because they're actually going to the international space station and i think that they were like much less than that so um anyways that's how i feel about space there you go you you didn't ask for it but there it was um what have we got time wise let's let's uh discover individual differences [Music] my [Music] oh [Music] this is janet peterson new student teacher she has been with this fifth grade class for just a few days it's a friday afternoon the end of another school week several weeks after that first day when miss smith the regular teacher greeted the children for the first time since the first of the school year miss smith has come to know each of her children as an individual this has resulted not only in a relaxed and friendly classroom atmosphere but also in more effective teaching [Music] robert friendly and sociable [Music] ruth much more cheerful now [Music] and mark bright and alert elizabeth wants to stay in the health after school ms smith thanks her but explains there is nothing to help with this afternoon john still unresponsive and withdrawn [Music] let's sit down shall we how do you do it how do i do what how do you get to know the children so well which child well all right how did you find out about robert begin by using your eyes and ears you see him for instance in the reading circle struggling with material that others read easily [Music] of all the readers robert is one of the poorest [Music] before the class begins when no one expects to be watched you watch you find a few of the children isolated you more talking in pairs and then a cluster of the really popular children and it is here that you discover robert robert is popular with his peers and this is something you look through robert's cumulative record file health normal grade level achievement and reading very low all his academic performance low as you had observed in class his educational age is low but then so is his iq as you might expect robert plays games well [Music] physically and with his hands robert shows up better than he does in more formal aspects of school work you remember another child's remark that robert is good with tools academic tests never reveal a complete picture of the child's potentialities robert with his limited powers of intellectual achievement nevertheless has much to contribute to a unit on transportation you see the confidence and pleasure of a young craftsman robert is not a mechanical genius but he can work better with concrete materials than with symbols [Music] here is our pattern and we build on strength [Music] and ruth how did you approach ruth bro well first of all you look at ruth as you would look at any human being and your eyes tell you quite a good deal her clothes faded and worn looking her pale face the eyes with their apathetic look her listlessness and then you find things out from other teachers [Music] you pull information with these teachers you compare notes on brothers and sisters from the same family from the same child whom other teachers have had before you know ruth's mother is dead but you know little else about her family you discover that mrs ellingwood who had luke last year has visited ruth's home she describes the poor neighborhood in the run-down condition of the little house where ruth lives with her father and baby brother [Music] she discovered that ruth had entire responsibility for running the household and caring for her baby brother after school hours you look up the records on roof that her iq is normal but her academic progress considerably below that of other pupils with comparable intelligence after noting her poor attendance in previous years you check the health records and find indications of illness and frail physical health so you make a date to visit the school nurse to consult with her about [Music] roof with the cooperation of the nurse you arranged through the pta for ruth to receive a healthful meal at noon time in the school cafeteria [Music] and then you do something else which is a kind of observation but under controlled conditions you keep roof after school a couple of minutes one day on some pretext you dig into your desk draw and pull out a hair ribbon [Music] you tell her that you just found the ribbon last night and you thought of her that it would go nicely with her complexion [Music] you tell her how pretty she looks [Music] and then know that by using your eyes and your head and your heart together you've begun to get somewhere with this child you know that she knows that she has a friend and that's the beginning tell me about mark mark you remember an arithmetic test you gave the class not so very long ago everyone settled down and it seemed that they had just gotten well into it why mark that's very flattering may i have it i'd like to add this to my collection and now young man i assume you're finished with your arithmetic paper may i please have it thank you and you discover that your assumption was correct mark is finished and without an error right there was the nub of your trouble with mark he was seven jumps ahead of the rest of the class and sometimes a jump or two ahead of his teacher all his class work is flawless with a quality and ease about it which is amazing you've consulted the records on mark but they only confirm what you have gathered without them you look at mark as you have looked at robert and ruth and you see that mark is a very popular child so popular in fact that his influence over others is not always desirable something happened a couple of weeks ago which brought this out you had noted it down in the behavior journal [Music] jerry who is quite shy and withdrawn as a rule offered a suggestion on something which a committee was considering mark rudely brushed off jerry's suggestion it wasn't too practical an idea as you happen to overhear it but jerry deserve better treatment [Music] you could see the effect on jerry and so there was only one thing to do interrupt mark and check his rudeness you do what you can to get a fair hearing for jerry's suggestion then you resolve to speak to mark privately at the first opportunity afterward mark had begun to use a social status and his unusual intelligence in a way that harmed another child without his realizing it [Music] the arithmetic test had been typical also he had finished so far ahead of the others that he had had time to bother and distract them you made an appointment to talk with his mother and father you had to reassure them that you had not come because mark was doing poorly or because he had been bad you explained the problems of creating a challenge for mark school was too easy for him [Music] you showed them samples of his written work especially in arithmetic he could do school work now at an eighth grade level mark you explained was an unusually gifted and intelligent boy if you could not challenge him there was no end of the amount of mischief in which he could involve himself your continual problem was to keep him occupied and interested but you talked his parents out of the idea that mark should skip a grade that would create more problems than it would solve and at any grade the problem would remain essentially the same things had to be found which challenged mark mark's father who was an engineer told you about mark's interest in activity in photography together they had built a dark room and together they had learned the many steps involved in making a photograph each picture was theirs the product of a joint project [Music] he also told you that recently he and mark had started building a telescope this had arrived in the boy a considerable interest in astronomy [Music] you grabbed at this information the astronomy particularly you explain would meet a need of the moment in connection with social studies the children were studying the exploration of the new world which in turn was a rousing interest in shifts and navigation the idea of navigation was proving too difficult for most of the children but mark understood it and could make a real contribution and this was a way of enriching mark's program a thing that would have to be done on many occasions it had been a pleasant and successful talk because the basic ingredients were all there a good home intelligent and sensitive parents and a child with a tremendous capacity through cooperation and teamwork we had found a promising approach oh poor elizabeth she brought her rubbers this morning and now she's forgotten them tell me about elizabeth you remember today how downcast she was when i told her she couldn't stay in help for one afternoon in the beginning of the year i made up my mind i was going to pierce that solemn resentfulness of hers i had made no headway with the child and so on this particular afternoon i made up an excuse and asked her to stay to help me with something and it worked little by little you got her to talk to you and you began to understand just a bit of why elizabeth behaved the way she did [Music] elizabeth volunteered several times afterward to stay in hell perhaps it was not so much that you had succeeded with her as that elizabeth had found an excuse for not going home but now when you looked at elizabeth the same way you have looked at robert and booth and mark you get a feeling of why there was the sourness the hostility and the isolation there was one day that elizabeth did not make a very good committee member [Music] anger with sudden explosiveness you could see no reason at first why she did it then you remembered that that morning elizabeth had told you that her parents have been fighting you'll take that dress back tomorrow i will not that money was for the ram you stole it like a common thief [Music] a teacher is limited in dealing with such influences upon a child ms harper i'd like to speak to you about elizabeth how about the day after tomorrow oh no i'm terribly sorry i have an appointment the hairdresser's all afternoon well would the day after that be possible it's really very important my dear i'm so busy some friends are coming to my house i invited them so long ago has elizabeth no it isn't as simple as that why don't you name a time next week anytime after school in the afternoon or in the evening well really if it isn't that elizabeth has been a bad girl i don't see why you can't tell me what it is now i'm afraid we couldn't discuss it adequately over the phone oh there's someone at the door if you'll excuse me why don't you call me some other time mr smith i must go now very well [Music] you had tried to see her mother before it was no use you decided that this problem was too complicated to handle alone and that you needed special health and advice now tell me about john you remembered when you saw john that first day of school he was so small you thought he had wandered into the wrong room oh he's in the class that's john cooper of all the children little john is one of the biggest problems there was always the feeling of something missing from the pieces of the puzzle look at john as you have looked at the others and you feel his isolation from his classmates [Music] he has as much difficulty with school as robert but the differences between the two boys are striking in athletics and physical activity for instance [Music] records they were interesting and revealing educational age is lois roberts but significantly his iq is not a low one and then something written into john's health record not by the school doctor or the nurse but the dentist markedly [ __ ] dentition what did all these things mean further clues emerged as you talked with other teachers when he first came to kindergarten his mother had to take him home again after a short time it had been decided he wasn't ready yet for kindergarten his first grade teacher remembered finding him away from his fellow first graders playing with kindergarten children certainly not typical behavior only yesterday you had gone to a staff conference you had requested it the principal mr jones presided it was devoted exclusively to the problem of john [Music] each of us had his say with varying guesses and insight and finally after everyone else had a turn miss black the school psychologist began to put all the pieces together to make a pattern which made sense as i see john his tiny size the [ __ ] development of his teeth he's not being ready for kindergarten his playing with younger children the isolation from his classmates his consistently poor work all through his school career and his iq higher than that school work would lead you to expect all points to just one conclusion john is growing more slowly than other children of his age i'm sure that must be it but now what do we do about it how do we proceed with john unfortunately in the public school system of today there is no provision for the slowly developing slowly growing child such as we have in john this is not to say that there cannot be such a solution nor that we ought not strive hard to find one in a way john and other children like him are a test for everything we believe in everything we are trying to do for meeting the needs of the child is the goal of education certainly it is no answer to put him back a great or two he is 10 years old now chronologically and good or bad that is the way we group our children in our classrooms on the basis of chronological age he has enough to cope with emotionally without the added burden of such obvious failure [Music] could we go over all of it briefly so i can be sure to get it all down certainly first there is observation a teacher must use her eyes and ears [Music] and then controlled observation where the teacher's head and heart suggest something to her and she tries it and learns more about the child her needs and characteristics [Music] the records on all of the children you find out what their iqs are their educational ages other teachers notes and observations [Music] you check their health records the behavior journal a valuable aid in revealing to a teacher the pattern of a child's behavior from the bits and pieces of her isolated observations [Music] you share information with other teachers compare notes on brothers and sisters in the same family discuss the same child when the other teacher has had the child previously you try to arrange interviews with parents this is not always possible but you try when a parent interview is indicated when they are successful parent interviews can provide the basis for the sort of teamwork sometimes necessary and always helpful in dealing with the problems of children you arrange for a staff conference with a particularly difficult problem so that several minds can go to work on it [Music] maybe you could say that you could summarize all of the techniques by describing them as extensions of the teacher's sense perceptions plus a mixture of good sense i'd say that that was a fair summary we have seen a number of useful techniques which were used to learn more about children in the end we must admit that the experience and resourcefulness of a good teacher cannot always be conveyed in a book or a film [Music] there are no pat answers no fixed ways for a teacher to learn about and work with their children nor is there any substitute for fundamental knowledge sensitivity and intelligence [Music] um so that was a little long but um really wonderful film made for teachers on um how to look at all the kids in your class and kind of figure out like what is what's going on what's keeping them falling off behind what's you know where can i go in and help get the kid um excited about something um in spite of what's going on in their lives um so that they don't get left behind so they don't get marked with something um i gotta say my life i had lots of teachers that found what i was interested in and let me pursue those things in class um so i very much oh teachers of debt i think we all do really i mean they're more than just glorified babysitters they really are um amazing individuals now there are certainly bad examples of bad teachers out there um i've had them so i know but in general i mean dealing with a bunch of kids forget it man so we owe teachers a lot so back to school think about the teachers how we can support them um because they need it i mean they are doing an important thing for society and we need to help them out however we can so all of us probably know somebody that teaches so see what you can do to help them out all right i'm off my soapbox and i just want to say thank you for tuning in today and thank you for the coffee you can buy us coffee at buy me at coffee.com maybe a teacher needs coffee like um you know or needs supplies or something help them out um you can buy dvds from our website avgeeks.com you can also see other things we have online there for free uh and uh if you like what you saw or at least were interested hit the like button you can also hit subscriptions and get notifications and as always we like when you uh comment and when you share this with other people in your lives so thanks so much everybody have a good rest of your day uh tomorrow we will maybe watch our 1900th film if if numbers are correct 1900 100 no i'm sorry 1 900 films we've watched since um mid-march last year so that's pretty exciting we have so many more films to go though but uh i'm happy that you're here for the journey everybody take care of yourself and we will see you tomorrow bye eight seven six five four three eight seven six five four three eight seven six five four three seven six five four three eight seven six five four three