I've had family and close friends who were teachers but have since left the industry. Not because of pay or anything like that: because they felt there was so much red tape that they couldn't teach their students anymore. Because the system was too focused on curriculum and standardization and they were too tired of having students that felt like numbers instead of people. We can all complain about how much money teachers make, but the real problem is that teachers aren't allowed to teach anymore.
Great video. I get the point and I applaud it. Side note: some kids really do have to go to the bathroom that often and when you don’t allow them to and they get “the worst kidney infection I have ever seen as a Doctor” and the physician thinks it’s parental neglect and child services are called to the house, you get fired and blacklisted in the surrounding counties when it’s discovered that the teacher was doing it. As a kid, I thought I was dying and that the teacher hated my guts for no reason. Worst year of my child life. After that I stopped being a good student since I was treated the same as the misbehaving ones. Why not join them? They seem to be having more fun etc etc
My teacher for my "teaching as a profession " class showed us this today and told us to be quiet close our eyes and just listen. Then we were to watch the screen on mute. This is a very powerful video to end a class with when all of the students want to be a teacher.
Goose bumps every time I watch this. I'm the daughter of two teachers and I jump at the opportunity to learn whenever possible. THANK YOU TO ALL TEACHERS OF ANY SORT FOR SPREADING KNOWLEDGE. NEVER STOP.
yawn...... I hope 5 years later you have come to realise that some of your "straight A" grades are due in part to your teachers whether or not they were that dedicated or ambitious - plus how would you know how ambitious or dedicated they were? Nice - make a negative comment about teachers based on a video that is supposed to be giving teachers a boost of confidence. What your teacher didn't make you: appreciative.
Hello! Have you heard the talk about - Mayberg Amazing Success Path? (should be on google have a look) Ive heard some interesting things about it and my cousin got great results after implementing it.
Taylor Mali is awesome. He reminds me of the all my favorite teachers at the same time. The world would be a better place if more of them cared like he does.
Taylor Mali inspires me to be a teacher. I want to share this with everyone who has ever discouraged a teacher or a person from becoming a teacher. Teachers are so important!
great intention, but what do you do when the rest don't care. 1/45 teachers isn't going to help anyone, its going to get you fired. I've got bills to pay!
This is such fucking crap. I'd say about one in ten of the teachers I've EVER had have even given half a crap about anything to do with their students. IF you actually do all of these things then you're pretty much alone.
I burned out after 4 years of teaching, and I'm home with our youngest child. If I watch this everyday until he goes to kindergarten, I think I can go back in the classroom. I remember why I was there and I love the good parts. I can do this again. Thanks Mr. Mali!
....This may have been true long LONG ago before i was born (1988). I have been through about a dozen schools, and 99% of the teachers I've met through all of those schools were horrible, taught nothing, showed favoritism, and practiced corruption like no other. Now I will give credit where credit is due: I DO NOT THINK EVERY TEACHER IS BAD. But I sure do have an educated loathing for them. I was suppose to have been made an example of, to show the other students what a failure looks like. For the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school, my grades were just barely passing, no matter how hard I tried. Tons of '0's. I was depressed, I was angry at myself, I thought it was all my fault, fearing my future due to these horrible grades. The teachers even called my family, saying I should be put into the "special" students' class, my family believed every word the teachers told them. Until the high school equivalency exam came around. It was a test graded by the government, not by the school's teachers. I aced it, and then I became confused and monstrously untrusting. Then found my work being thrown into the trash by the teachers, literally. Every piece of work I completed from then on was copied, keeping a copy for myself, documenting the time, date, location, person it was turned into, and any other info about the work I turned in. I also documented everything corrupt or downright insane that happened, including a time when a teacher asked the students to think about their parents having sex (among other crazy things)! With all this documentation I waited for the one thing students are scared as hell to show their parents: a report card. My luck would have it that my report card (all 0's and 60's of course) also came with a letter to my family, saying I was going to be held back a year due to my "poor grades". I yelled at my family for the first time in my life when they got upset at me and I showed them every scrap of proof of my hard work. For once they ignored my teachers and got me a lawyer. Long story short: I won a lawsuit against the school, I won my freedom from years of torture and humiliation by the school system. I got my GED and obtained my high school diploma before my graduating class. I'm sure someone is thinking: "well surely you learned at least something from those teachers!" and yes, you are correct. Not math or English however, I taught myself all of that. They taught me that school systems practice authoritarianism. They taught me that if I wanted to know how to truly figure something out, it had to be on my own. They taught me to fear for the future of every single student that sits in the very classroom I once sat in, my prayers are with them. They taught me that real teachers that actually teach are a dying breed...
I'm serious, and, yes, it is sad that my oldest had a very poor public school teacher. My son was under a urologist's care for having a very small bladder. So tiny that until he received meds he did not feel the urge to use the bathroom. Everything passed through him before that, and often his run to the bathroom was too late. Thank heavens that prior to fifth grade he had teachers who cared about him. Fifth grade was awful. The teacher refused to allow him unlimited use of the bathroom. He would come home daily soaked in his urine from multiple accidents. She, also, did not make use of the dry clothes I kept in the nurse's office. As a result, he was nicknamed pee in the pants boy by a bully in his class named Stephen. His self esteem dropped drastically. The school did nothing to punish Stephen regardless of adults hearing his taunting on a regular basis. Our principal pulled me aside one day to let me know that personally he agreed with me about allowing Chris bathroom privileges, but because the teacher had tenure his hands were tied. If I had treated my son that way, surely someone would have turned me in for child neglect. Her excuse was simply that his bladder issue was in our heads, and, if we would stop treating him like there was an issue, it would go away. I consulted our urologist, and he disagreed with this assessment. Thank goodness for homeschooling!! I was able to bring him home to a teacher who loves him always and has his best interests at heart always! My son is now twenty two years old, in college and succeeding very well. He is in an honor society, maintains a GPA above 3.5 always, and hopes to one day have his doctorate in theoretical physics :)!! By the way, he thinks very well for himself :). His economics teacher asked to meet me so she could congratulate me specifically on how well I taught him to think for himself :)
Wow! What an inspiring video. I was starting to have doubts about going into teaching, but this reminds me of how rewarding it will be to have a positive effect on children.
