Imaginative Bridges between TV/Film and Teaching

As I was sifting through all of the required readings for the week I began to make a correlation between the TV and Film editing process and developing lesson plans. First, teaching is the equivalent to story telling. We have chosen a topic that is important to our students and we romance it in a way that the concepts tell a story. I really feel like the design of the written lesson plan is very much like a movie or television script. It is constantly edited and reworked until it tells the perfect story. Once the script is complete the actors bring it to life. I feel like teachers are the actors that bring the lesson or the script to life for the audience (students). There is alot of work that goes into the editing process to make the movie perfect. Teachers often times find themselves constantly rewriting lessons and reworking them because they find that they simply do not work they way they are. Even after they have taught the lesson to the class it is not uncommon to revisit the lesson plan and adjust for things that just didn't work. This is very reminiscent of the editing process of the movie after it has been filmed. I read from the required readings that the editing process for a movie iz so meticulous and editing continues until all of the bad parts are cut out. The same rings true or many teachers editing lesson plans.