Christopher Emdin，science
TED，Octorber，2013
There are teachers who，despite all their challenges，who have those skills，get into those schools and are able to engage an audience.
只要老师不畏挑战，且拥有那些技能，就可以在学校激励和鼓舞学生。
Christopher Emdin
背景故事
说唱表演，理发店里的玩笑和周日教堂礼拜有什么共同点呢？克里斯托弗·艾姆丁说：“它们都拥有令人着迷的魔力，要是利用在教学中是多好一件事，而这些通常都是不会教给老师的。”这位科学支持者（与Wu-Tang Clan说唱乐团中的GZA一起创始了Science Genius B.A.T.T.L.E.S.）描述了一个可以让课堂变得生动起来的远景。
名人简介
克里斯托弗·艾姆丁，科学教育的副教授，获得了城市教育博士学位。立志于城市科学教育改革，终成为教育的新兴领袖。
演讲赏析
Teach Teachers How to Create Magic
Christopher Emdin，science
TED，Octorber，2013
Right now there is an aspiring teacher who is working on a 60-page paper based on some age-old education theory developed by some dead education professor wondering to herself what this task that she’s engaging in has to do with what she wants to do with her life，which is to be an educator，change lives，and spark magic.Right now there is an aspiring teacher in a graduate school of education who is watching a professor babble on and on about engagement in the most disengaging way possible.
Right now there‘s a first-year teacher at home who is pouring through lesson plans trying to make sense of standards，who is trying to make sense of how to grade students appropriately，while at the same time saying to herself over and over again，“Don’t smile till November，”because that‘s what she was taught in her teacher education program.Right now there’s a student who is coming up with a way to convince his mom or dad that he‘s very，very sick and can’t make it to school tomorrow.
On the other hand，right now there are amazing educators that are sharing information，information that is shared in such a beautiful way that the students are sitting at the edge of their seats just waiting for a bead of sweat to drop off the face of this person so they can soak up all that knowledge.Right now there is also a person who has an entire audience rapt with attention，a person that is weaving a powerful narrative about a world that the people who are listening have never imagined or seen before，but if they close their eyes tightly enough，they can envision that world because the storytelling is so compelling.Right now there‘s a person who can tell an audience to put their hands up in the air and they will stay there till he says，“Put them down.”Right now.
So people will then say，“Well，Chris，you describe the guy who is going through some awful training but you’re also describing these powerful educators.If you‘re thinking about the world of education or urban education in particular，these guys will probably cancel each other out，and then we’ll be okay.”
The reality is，the folks I described as the master teachers，the master narrative builders，the master storytellers are far removed from classrooms.The folks who know the skills about how to teach and engage an audience don‘t even know what teacher certification means.They may not even have the degrees to be able to have anything to call an education.And that to me is sad.It’s sad because the people who I described，they were very disinterested in the learning process，want to be effective teachers，but they have no models.I‘m going to paraphrase Mark Twain.Mark Twain says that proper preparation，or teaching，is so powerful that it can turn bad morals to good，it can turn awful practices into powerful ones，it can change men and transform them into angels.
The folks who I described earlier got proper preparation in teaching，not in any college or university，but by virtue of just being in the same spaces of those who engage.Guess where those places are？Barber shops，rap concerts，and most importantly，in the black church.And I’ve been framing this idea called Pentecostal pedagogy.Who here has been to a black church？We got a couple of hands.You go to a black church，their preacher starts off and he realizes that he has to engage the audience，so he starts off with this sort of wordplay in the beginning oftentimes，and then he takes a pause，and he says，“Oh my gosh，they‘re not quite paying attention.”So he says，“Can I get an amen？”
Audience：Amen.
Chris Emdin：So I can I get an amen？Audience：Amen.
CE：And all of a sudden，everybody’s reawoken.That preacher bangs on the pulpit for attention.He drops his voice at a very，very low volume when he wants people to key into him，and those things are the skills that we need for the most engaging teachers.So why does teacher education only give you theory and theory and tell you about standards and tell you about all of these things that have nothing to do with the basic skills，that magic that you need to engage an audience，to engage a student？So I make the argument that we reframe teacher education，that we could focus on content，and that‘s fine，and we could focus on theories，and that’s fine，but content and theories with the absence of the magic of teaching and learning means nothing.
Now people oftentimes say，“Well，magic is just magic.”There are teachers who，despite all their challenges，who have those skills，get into those schools and are able to engage an audience，and the administrator walks by and says，“Wow，he‘s so good，I wish all my teachers could be that good.”And when they try to describe what that is，they just say，“He has that magic.”
