My Name Is Children

Delineates how the Nova Elementary School at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is using an inquiry approach to motivate students to learn. Shows special teacher meetings in which individual student problems as well as coordination of general plans are discussed. Portrays the involvement of the children as they are learning., A documentary study of children at the progressive Nova School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, filmed by William C. Jersey, producer of "A Time For Burning." The program focuses on the child's discovery through learning, encouraged by unusual teachers and an unusual school. The entire film takes place in school, as students use the Total Resource Center (technologically advanced library); perform a satire on the Trojan Ware; participate in a "propaganda game," which employs many of the sophisticated techniques of modern propagandists; and engage in various learning situations on an individualized and group basis. The curriculum at Nova School calls for children to begin -- as early as kindergarten -- a study of social sciences (beginning with "social" processes related to the life of young child); an "audio-lingual" study of foreign languages; and from kindergarten on, learning in geometry, algebra, and arithmetic.