The One Thing All Great Teachers Do | Nick Fuhrman | TEDxUGA
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With this talk, Dr. Nick Fuhrman encourages us to recognize the profound personal impact that we can have on others — both in and out of the classroom. Dr. Nick Fuhrman is an associate professor of environmental education in the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication. Also known as “Ranger Nick,” he teaches graduate courses in educational program development and data analysis and undergraduate courses in environmental education and teaching methods. Dr. Fuhrman received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Forestry from Virginia Tech and his PhD in Agricultural Education and Communication from the University of Florida. His life’s passion is teaching, and he often uses live animals (such as snakes, turtles, and owls) in the classroom and on his monthly television series, Ranger Nick. Dr. Fuhrman and his wife, Jessica, have a son, Miles, who already seems to love animals and the outdoors as much as his dad. 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
Title wise, but truth be told, all my teachers failed, including the principal and the reason is workplaces are falling apart and when a teacher is too late to change a person's view life gets worse. Like in middle school, I wish it was a trade school within public relations integrated and as to where 6th 7th and 8th are working together in the on the job training. High school wise same thing. Subject wise, I feel like history is useless because the only way to care about history is being put to work in middle-high. Science in middle school, well its challenging and job experience alignment would be police work but withinn the science side/stem perspective
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Could have substituted ‘Teachers’ with ‘Parents’!
As soon as one reads or hears great ‘teacher’ one should be skeptical! I had great university lecturers…Were they great educators by way of a variety of educational approaches? Did they teach me ‘How to Learn’? Teachers never, NEVER, did anything to inform me about how my mammalian neural network functions!
I do appreciate the inclusion of life sciences…however, life science includes more than handling a reptile and hearing some interesting facts. Life science includes more than having a baby, and caring!
Anatomy, physiology, molecular biology, biochemistry and neurobiology is involved! Really!
In addition to the points conveyed, both parents and teachers have do,what they do, WELL…not just good… not just amusing…not just caring!
There is a science to learning, a science to neuroscience!
How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures
by National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine (Author), Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (Author), Board on Science Education (Author), Board on Behavioral Cognitive and Sensory Sciences (Author), Committee on How People Learn II the Science and Practice of Learning (Author)
Theories of Human Learning, by Guy R. Lefrançois
What a great edutainrr
@falconnyeThat was incredibly insightful thank you very much ❤❤❤❤my son 6 and half in Grade 1 will appreciate my new approach when teaching him.❤❤❤thank you
@ShaedaPhiri-cr3wzThis video makes me smile
@JavierRodriguez-z4mOrganizational structure, vocal delivery, and illustration style of this talk = 100% sermon. Bravo!
@stationcall180I am trying to work on my MAT and this is an assignment. I have not been in school since 1985.... Great video to motivate me!
@patrickjames3954My great teacher do for is English teacher MRS .montalla .I remember her I'm so scared my teacher
But I learned a lot from her
Could today be the day that defines the entire trajectory of the year?
@dawiszarins2088Can the cumulative body of questions assembled across twenty-eight successive sessions — spanning magnetohydrodynamic seawater pumping and vertical ocean mixing dynamics, room-temperature superconductor scale-up readiness and invasive species management in exclusion zones, copper nanowire transparent conductors and submarine groundwater discharge copper chemistry, quantum purity copper production and leadership succession governance in this session alone — demonstrate that the intellectual content of seawater copper extraction is not merely vast but genuinely self-generating, with each session of questioning revealing new intellectual territory whose existence was not apparent until the questions of previous sessions had been asked and the territories they opened had been entered?
@dawiszarins2088That bow at the end said it all. Teachers are humble, like Ranger Nick.
@LadybugsEnglish-x5zwhat a beautiful soul~
@GraceHuang-l3rJust happened upon this talk today. Very engaging speaker- great story and great message!
@aaronbrownphdIn my jewelry videos showing a process, if something goes south, and occasionally it does, I keep going and talk about it. It may add 5 or 10 minutes to my video but it teaches that making and repairing jewelry is a very fluid activity. It really drives home the idea that every project is its own puzzle to be solved through logic and the application of a process, or chain of processes in a particular order.
Many times the order of the processes are decided on the fly.
So including the surprising moments are important to see and use as a teachable moment.
Great teachers entertain.
I try to have a moment in each presentation where people can stop, laugh, and see themselves in what I am saying.
I did the sticker thing with my high school students. They loved it. Some began to turn in tests with a box drawn at the top and an arrow with the caption “place sticker here.” Always made me laugh.
@BeautybytracileiThey should absolutely have every educator watch this speech at the VERY LEAST. This blew me away with how well it was presented, and being able to share his passion so well.
@Paytom75Thank you for your motivational speech. I hope I will use the C.A.R.E with my future students.
@sarahdaugherty6849running leap in adults and procrastination are different or same.
@tharanga-c5sHad a bad day in the classroom today and this made me smile. Thanks man
@strawberryfrogforeverGreat teachers build future progress in little grawn ups!
@IvyVresk@nickfuhrman3864 Hello Nick, Even though I just now watched your video from 7 years ago, I wanted you to know what a wonderful experience it was to watch & hear about your love of learning & teaching! It all comes down to being genuinely passionate about what to teach & how you will engage your students - so they can also become engaged & passionate about learning! Your video brought back so many wonderful memories of my students!! I became a teacher after being an at home mom for 10 years because I wanted to have the same impact on students that a few of my teachers had on me from 5th grade to community college, & at the private university I graduated from.
Teachers are live changers! ❤
You lads are hilarious 😂😂😂
@SuperAdventureBros-pf1lqSplendid
@letslearnsomething-n7kEven seven years later from that delivery your speech sounds really great!!! Being a teacher myself I thank you for your sharing ❤
@ouranio-talkshowI understood this so fast I need a moment to process my new identity.
@SaimirGjoni-l5fI’m blown away by how good this tutorial is!
@SaimirGjoni-l5fIn terms of "edutainment", I have had several great Superintendents. One of them coined a phrase to use for our theme for the year. His phrase was "Just Engage Them".
@developingeducatorsAwesome talk still appropriate today
@thisbusyolegalThe best teacher I ever had was my sophomore year in high school English teacher. I was struggling with mental health and he pulled me out of class one day cause he saw me failing where I should be excelling, and I remember him giving me an extension on a major project. The connection, the warmth I felt in that moment, continues to last. Randomly ran into him walking a trail after graduating college and we were able to reconnect. A good teacher keeps their students interested, a great teacher influences their lives.
@KingNoNamerAbsolutely powerful ❤. Thanks ranger Nick 🎉
@andilejama8032🙏
@averilmaree9710Random turtle?
That'll preach.😊❤
Haha nice one. I am a Mathematics teacher and the first thing I make sure my students know is "we are allowed to make mistakes, actually I will do a few here and there, and its OK." I find this to be one of the most liberating truths in my class! My students are stress-free when they speak, because they know that no mistake will ever make me angry or shouting etc... Great advice, both for class and life!
@ThanosNikolopoulosI teach teachers at a California College and I am sharing this with our future middle and high school teachers. This made me smile and affirmed what I have learned from my students about great teaching these past 45 years in California and Mexico. Thanks
@AliceTomasiniMy favorite memory of my favorite teacher was when he asked our Social Studies class to write what we thought of New Jersey's new law in 1973, changing the drinking age from 21 to 18. I wrote that rather than lowering the drinking age to 18, it should be raised to 81, detailing the life of the child of the town drunk, me. He asked me to read it to the class, which I did. I taught them.
And, I loved what he wrote in my yearbook: Anita
Sincere best wishes to a fine young lady and a fine student.
John Bihlmier
Tremendous presentation!!
I will use these insights in all areas of my personal and professional life!!
Thank you!!
Inspiring stuff, Ranger Nick. I am only just in the early stages of my teaching career (having just reached my sixties !) and I really enjoyed that. Now, how to get that alligator onto the bus and into college for maths on Tuesday... maybe an adder would be better ...
@KAF1281. Celebrate mistakes
2. Appreciate differences
3. Relay feedback
4. Evaluate themselves
Ranger Nick, you were a pleasure to listen to…. I wish all teachers could be as caring as you.
@peggybruening4415Owl-standing presentation Ranger Nick. You are an unbe-leaf-able educator.
@GameTime-yj6qvGorgeous.
@mojoxphotographyLove this❤ one of the most amazing Ted Talks!
@arafama52I work in customer service at a grocery store. I always tell my team that mistakes are just opportunities to learn. Training is a fair percentage of my job, and I always try to make it interesting and relevant. (I can't bring in animals, sadly.) If they don't understand why they're supposed to do something, they won't do it. And yes, they do love stickers! We keep stickers to give to kids and many of my team members of all ages put stickers on their name badges. We don't have papers to turn in, but we do have a reward system where we give out "star cards" for doing a good job. It makes them so happy, and it's seemingly such a little thing. Some of them even keep the cards on their bedroom wall. Recognizing hard work is so important.
I occasionally bring in treats like pumpkin bread muffins, too. And every Thanksgiving, I write personalized note cards for each of my team members and even some people in other departments, thanking them for specific things they do. Some of the recipients go on to write appreciation cards themselves.
This is definitely one of my favorite Ted talks.
Great teachers see you.
@heyjude505nmGREAT TEACHERS - CARE
@Jarox7897I agree that a great teacher evaluates themselves and makes adjustments to what they need to do to help their students.
@BlossomSenior-b6hInspire others
@ShivaLadiva-sb9nwThank you for a lovely talk! I used to put stickers on my high school students’ work, the kids liked it a lot! Not sure why I stopped, will start again this year!
@annediss8706AN OWL?? Dude is stuntin
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