Building an imaginative bridge between the work of art of film & television, and the work of art of teaching…

Both Filmmaking and Teaching are interactive...

Just as s a filmmaker must know where to begin the story, as Groh states that she discovered that the story shouldn't begin at the chronological beginning, you have to figure out what the audience cares about, a teacher must know where lessons should begin, what the class cares about in terms of what they need to know to build on their current knowledge of a subject.  As Larry Prusak said, it's not like the Monty Python approach to learning, where you open up someone's head, and you pour the information in.  You're waiting for he/she to respond, to come back.  Because the sooner the audience/class responds, whether it's hundreds of people watching a video at the same time (or a class of 30 students), or speaking to an individual, the sooner the audience/class experiences the story and really feels something, the better the story/lesson is.  That's the objective for both filmmakers and teachers:  to have the person really experience something, and retain the information conveyed via the experience.