What Teachers Make by Taylor Mali - Classroom Friendly

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The release of this video comes at the tail end of Taylor Mali's Quest for a Thousand Teachers, a goal set in 2000 to inspire 1,000 people to become teachers through "poetry, persuasion, and perseverance." After more than 12 years, Taylor has reached this goal and is soon to release his book, "What Teachers Make," described as "an impassioned defense of teachers and why our society needs them now more than ever." #whatteachersmake

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Directed by Alberto Roldan
Produced by Douglas Hosking
Viral Marketing by Steve McQuown

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[earthshoes]

Now this I can share on facebook without having to apologize to my mother and my pastor. :>)

[Salvanas42]

This video is amazing and Taylor Mali's work is part of what helped me affirm my decision to become a teacher. Taylor, you can add one more person to your list of inspired teachers.

[Brooque613]

LOVE this. Thanks, Taylor! :)

[15minoflame]

Makes me want to cry Teachers are the backbone of America !

[Devin Fraze]

Yes I get it. Many people are in favor of education as it is and they have their own opinion on how the system can be slightly tweaked. I write on here because I hope that people will start to look outside the box. The general population's ideas on education are extremely narrow, uncreative, and out of date. I only hope that everyone that reads this will, not take my words for truth, but go out and start looking for new ideas they haven't heard before. It's time education evolved.

[LoneWolfDOD]

feeling of accomplishment because it maybe one of the biggest moments in their life. The problem isn't in the school, or the method. The problem is the parents not caring about the kids while they're in school. My grandma cared about my education so it made me care. Friends of mine, who's parents didn't care and just wanted them to get to working so they can help pay bills. Tell me how that's fair? Ripping a kids youth from them, depriving them of an education that they are entitled to

[LoneWolfDOD]

teach differently. The public school system has it's flaws, yes. However, everyone fails to recognize that public school does good, that teachers do help, that it's not a waste of time. Schools offer extracurricular activities that they would not get else where. It allows kids to socialize with other students face to face instead of facebook to facebook. Kids can drop out on their own after a certain age, but most choose not too because they want that diploma. They want the recognition and that

[LoneWolfDOD]

You're talking about not being linear, yet your logic is linear. You're only seeing the negatives and no positives. I was influenced to become a teacher myself, by the amazing teachers that I had through out my public schooling. Some changed my life, exposed me to things I couldn't have even dreamed of. Showed me the possibilities that I would have never found on my own. There is no law stating that a kid HAS to attend public school. He or she can be home schooled or attend private schools that

[Devin Fraze]

Great example, but I think you are looking at it all wrong. The person who sees no need for math will natural find a useful purpose to learn it through the means of their passion instead possibly just in a way similar to the example you gave. This could even lead to a possible interest in math that was born through the positive interactions of their current interests. If the art kid never learns to hate math by being forced to take it, they might actually learn to like it and see it as useful.

[lizziet4]

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[lizziet4]

Did you go deaf when they lines "You want to know what I make? I make kids wonder,

I make them question," were spoken?

[lizziet4]

I have to agree with you on this. Teachers teach because they are passionate about learning and they want their students to learn as much as they can. When a teacher pushes me, it shows me they care; they aren't going to give up on me even if I have given up on myself.