TEACH Video and Panel Discussion at Georgia Museum of Art September 8

Passionate about becoming a teacher? Perhaps only mildly interested in teaching? Either way, please join us for a free viewing of the documentary "TEACH" and interactive panel discussion to follow the film. It is an open session, and anyone can come.

TEACH is a 35-minute documentary produced by filmmaker Davis Guggenheim. The film follows four new teachers during their first year in the Los Angeles, Calif., public school system and shows their interactions with students (ranging in age from kindergartners to young adults taking ESL and special education classes). Guggenheim undertook this project to highlight the fact that over the next 10 years, we will need 2 million new teachers across the U.S.

Designed to inspire and encourage people to become teachers, the film is a powerful recruitment tool that explores the special bonds which can develop between teachers and their students. "My hope is that [these films] will change the way people look at education and start to see it as a human issue," said Guggenheim. Information about the films TEACH and THE FIRST YEAR is available on the PBS site <http://www.pbs.org/firstyear>.

After the film is screened, education specialists will offer reactions and answer questions from the audience. The session is part of a new seminar series in the College of Education called the Future Teacher Seminar Series. Be on the lookout for other sessions to follow later this semester!

CONTACT: Cindy Molloy, 706/583-8269, cmolloy@coe.uga.edu