Who Will Teach Your Child?

Who Will Teach Your Child?
Who Will Teach Your Child?
Directed by	Stanley Jackson
Written by	Stanley Jackson
Produced by	Gudrun Parker; Tom Daly
Narrated by	Percy Rodriguez
Cinematography	Grant McLean
Edited by	Stanley Jackson; Gudrun Parker; George Brandt
Music by	Eldon Rathburn
Production; company	National Film Board of Canada
Release date	1948;
Running time	30 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

Who Will Teach Your Child? is a 1948 Canadian short documentary, directed by Stanley Jackson for the National Film Board of Canada.^[1]^[2]

The film is about the importance of elementary and high school teachers in the development of children,^[3] mixing commentary with dramatic enactments of various potential classroom incidents acted by real Ottawa-area students and teachers.^[2] It is an analysis of the teacher’s vital role in a child’s development and asks three important questions: how can the teaching profession attract people of superior ability, to the teaching profession; how should these people be trained, and how can they be persuaded to stay in the teaching profession, as opposed to moving on to more lucrative careers.^[4]

Who Will Teach Your Child? won the Canadian Film Award for Best Theatrical Short Film at the 1st Canadian Film Awards in 1949.^[5] The film was also named by Scholastic Teacher magazine as one of the ten best films about education distributed in the United States in 1949.^[6]

References

^ "Who Will Teach Your Child?". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Documentary Film On Pupils And Teachers". Ottawa Citizen, December 8, 1948.
^ "Film Board's Picture About Teaching Fails". Winnipeg Tribune, November 27, 1948.
^ "Who Will Teach Your Child?". acmi.net.au. ACMI. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
^ Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1. pp. 5-7.
^ "Ottawa Films Are Selected". Ottawa Citizen, April 27, 1950.