Educating the East End (2014)
Series 1
Seeing what our secondary-school teachers have to contend with (and can achieve) in the classroom is an eye-opener, as we saw in the brilliant observational series Educating Yorkshire. Even though they try to be inspirational and encouraging, it can be a struggle. “It’s really hard to balance the idealism with the difficulties of dealing with a bunch of adolescents,” says Ms Smith, head at Frederick Bremer School in east London. Trainee teacher Mr Bispham’s attempts to teach a year-nine class Shakespeare shows how frustrating and challenging it is (rowdiness, swearing, chatting, boredom – he gets it all) but how much he and his colleagues care oozes through the screen.
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: imdb.east-end-london, imdb.secondary-school, imdb.school, imdb.teenage-girl, imdb.teenage-boy, imdb.classroom, imdb.education, imdb.teacher
Network: Channel 4
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English