Teacher Toolbox

The Teacher Toolbox resource collection features free printables to help you teach with film and other media to enrich your classroom and boost student engagement. These resources can also help you facilitate film screenings in a wide variety of settings.

Teacher Toolbox

Overview

The Teacher Toolbox resources are designed to support educators in a wide range of learning environments. New to our materials?—Start here!

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  • Lesson Grades: TK, K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, College, Adult Learning

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Teaching With Film: Getting Started Guide

Teaching With Film: Getting Started Guide

These simple tips in Teaching With Film: Getting Started Guide can help you make film a meaningful part of your learning community and take the viewing experience from passive to active.

This one-page printable handout is also useful for teaching with any kind of media.

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How to Choose Films for Your Classroom

How to Choose Films for Your Classroom

How to Choose Films for Your Classroom contains tips and questions to help you find the right film for your teaching needs. This guide can work with any educator’s teaching style, philosophy, and learning community. 

One-page printable handout.

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Glossary of Film Terms

Glossary of Film Terms

The Glossary of Film Terms can assist educators, learners and viewers discuss  aspects of a film with knowledge and accuracy.

The Glossary of Film Terms can be a strong complementary resource for teaching with all our films. Plus, it makes a great addition to classes on filmmaking, film history and film literacy.

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Group Discussion Facilitation Guidelines

Group Discussion Facilitation Guidelines

These Group Discussions Facilitation Guidelines set the stage for learning with film or discussing sensitive topics and issues. This powerful communication tool is adaptable, flexible and useful in a wide range of settings.

This one-page printable handout is designed to help you set the stage for learning with film and can also be useful for facilitating group discussions in other contexts. It is also a fillable form that can be used with a smartboard.

Learn more about using this resource in the classroom: Tips to Create Safe Spaces for Student Engagement with Difficult Topics.

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Windows and Mirrors

Windows and Mirrors

Encourage students to engage with a wide range stories and perspectives with this classroom activity about media literacy.

Learners can make notes directly on these printable printable handouts, which can also provide a springboard for class discussions.

We offer two versions:

  1. Windows and Mirrors Handout: A one-page handout with a window on the top of the page and a mirror at the bottom with space for learners to write in.
  2. Windows and Mirrors Media Audit: A two-page handout in a logbook style with page 1 for windows and page 2 for mirrors.

Windows and Mirrors was inspired by Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop’s inclusive reading pedagogy. Learn more about teaching with this media literacy resource: Windows and Mirrors: Building Belonging Through Literary Perspective.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Journeys in Film supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Learn more about teaching with UN SDGs. This curriculum guide connects to the following SDGs.
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