Inspiration
Inspiring TED Talks for Teachers by Educators from around the world
Parvathy Jayakrishnan shares the most inspiring TED talks for teachers by educators from around the world.
Parvathy Jayakrishnan shares the most inspiring TED talks for teachers by educators from around the world.
1. Safeena Husain
Girls’ education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet to help solve some of the world’s most difficult problems," says social entrepreneur and 2018 ScooNews Teacher Warrior Award winner Safeena Husain. In a visionary talk, she shares her plan to enroll a staggering 1.6 million girls in school over the next five years – combining advanced analytics with door-to-door community engagement to create new educational pathways for girls in India.
2. Anita Collins
Dr. Anita Collins is an educator, researcher, and writer in the field of brain development and music learning. In this talk, musician and educator Anita Collins makes a passionate case for music education as an indispensable part of school curricula, describing how learning to play music is the neurological equivalent of a full-body workout.
3. Claudia Miner
Early education is critical to children's success – but millions of kids still don't have access to programmes that prepare them to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. Education innovator Claudia Miner shares how UPSTART is setting four-year-olds up for success with 15 minutes of learning a day – and how you can help. The UPSTART Project is a plan to bring early learning into the homes of children in underserved communities, at no cost to families. As the cofounder and executive director of Waterford UPSTART, Claudia Miner has one goal: to help families overcome barriers and prepare their children for lifelong learning.
4. Jasmine Cho
An uncomfortable brush with a loved one's mortality caused baker Jasmine Cho to have an epiphany – that she needed to combine what made her happy with what she found important. In this inspiring personal talk, she describes how she repurposed her love for baking by using cookies as a storytelling canvas to highlight the stories of marginalised figures from American history. Jasmine Cho is the Founder of Yummyholic, an online bakery specialising in custom cookies and cupcakes that taste as amazing as they look. Jasmine was recognised as a 2017 Creator of the Year by the Pittsburgh Technology Council and Creative Industries Network, a Who’s Next under 40 in Food Honoree by The Incline, and a Women & Business Honoree by Pittsburgh Magazine.
5. Michelle Kuo
Reading and writing can be acts of courage that bring us closer to others and ourselves. Author Michelle Kuo shares how teaching reading skills to her students in the Mississippi Delta revealed the bridging power of the written word – as well as the limitations of its power.
6. Christopher Robichaud
In this fun and nerdy talk, ethics professor Christopher Robichaud explains how he worked the key principles of Dungeons & Dragons into an ethics simulation used to train future policymakers at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Christopher Robichaud is a Lecturer in Ethics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
7. Emily Pilloton
Designer Emily Pilloton moved to rural Bertie County, in North Carolina, to engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformation. She is teaching a design-build class called Studio H that engages high schoolers' minds and bodies while bringing smart design and new opportunities to the poorest county in the state. Emily, a humanitarian design activist, wrote Design Revolution, a book about 100-plus objects and systems designed to make people's lives better.
8. Neha Madhira
High school newspaper editors Neha Madhira and Haley Stack share how they fought back when their critical journalism faced the threat of censorship. Learn more about how their efforts expanded to lobbying for New Voices, a law that would extend First Amendment protections to student journalism, which has now passed in multiple states. Neha Madhira is a journalist who fights for press freedom of High School students.
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