Скачать или смотреть How can teachers truly inspire students? | Douglas Yacek | TEDxStuttgart

What do the best teachers do to engage and inspire their students? The answer is simpler than you may think: They dare to transform their students.

Transforming education begins with the teacher — more specifically, it begins with the teacher’s next lesson. The biggest problem facing education today is how to engage the young people sitting in our classrooms, immersed as they are in profoundly stimulating and sensational digital content. How could the Pythagorean Theorem ever compete with a 15 second TikTok dance sequence? The answer to that question lies in the teacher who dares to be impassioned by what she is teaching and who designs her lessons and courses to be radically oriented to awakening the fascination and wonder of her students.

Douglas Yacek is a Senior Lecturer of Ethics and Multiculturalism at the University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia and a Research Fellow in Educational Foundations at the TU Dortmund University in Germany. At the heart of his research and teaching is the question: How can teachers make education transformative? How can we awaken students' fascination for subject matter, inspire a love of learning, and help young people lead morally good, politically engaged and personally meaningful lives? What methods work, and don't work in K-12 and college classrooms? In 2021, Yacek was awarded the TU Dortmund prize for excellence in teaching. He now regularly gives talks and workshops for teachers and educational leaders around the Europe and the US on central issues of educational practice. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx