“A Touch of Greatness”

By on June 5, 2012 in General Discussion

Sincere thanks to Stephen Hurley for leading me to “A Touch of Greatness”, the Albert Cullum story. This is a truly inspirational film that chronicles the triumphs of a 5th grade teacher in Rye, New York. Albert Cullum leads his students to experience life, love, laughter and learning, through the use of drama, Shakespeare in particular. He is the kind of teacher we all wish we could be because he loathes mediocrity and urges his students to strive for “a touch of greatness”.

To try to describe this amazing teaching style would do it no justice. I encourage every educator, parent and student to watch and see how it can be done. None of us could emulate his style but all of us could learn from his passion.

About mharding


Michael Harding is a retired elementary school teacher. His roles as teacher took him to the classroom (his most cherished years), consultant, vice principal and principal. His last 25 years were spent as principal in elementary schools in Mississauga. Not wanting to leave the domain of children, Michael owned and operated a musical theatre program for children called "Stage Coach". He is also an adjunct professor in the graduate childhood program at Canisius College and is also a supervisor of student teaching at Canisius. Michael is married with three daughters and is proud "Papa" to six wonderful grandchildren.

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One Response to “A Touch of Greatness”

  1. Stephen Hurley June 5, 2012 at 8:31 am #

    It would be cool if we could find a way of having a group of us watch this film at the same time. Anyone know how technology might be able to assist us with that?

    stephen

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