Top 10 TED Talks from Inspiring Teachers

1- Teach Statistics before Calculus

Arthur Benjamin, a Math professor at at Harvey Mudd College, offers a bold proposal on how to make Math education relevant in the digital age

 

2- Teaching The World Peace Game  Learn how John Hunter created the World Peace Game which is a hands-on political simulation where he puts all the problems of the world on ax plywood  board and has his graders solve them

   


3- Teaching Design for Change   Learn how designer Emily Pilloton has brought new opportunities to the poorest county in the state by teaching a design class called Studio H

 


 4-  Math Class Needs a Makeover   Dan Meyer, a high school math teacher, argues in this video that the focus in math class should be shifted from solving problems to formulating solutions

   


  5- How to Speed up Chemical Reactions and Get a Date  Aoron Sams, Colorado high school teacher has made a great TED -Ed lesson  on chemical reactions made relatable to anyone hoping to go to prom.
   

  6- The Child-driven Education In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa, Sugata Mitra ( Education Scientist ) gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.
 
   


7- A Call to Reinvent Liberal Arts Education Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education.

   


8- Teaching Kids Real Math with Computers   Conrad Wolfram presents his radical idea about teaching kids math through computer to generate stinters.

   


9- The Call to Learn   Stoll Clifford, astronomer and researcher, makes a sharp, witty case for keeping

   


10- A Teacher Growing Green in The South Bronx  Watch this amazing story of Stephen Ritz who teaches at-risk kids in the South Bronx