Reimagining Classrooms: Teachers as Learners and Students as Leaders | Kayla Delzer | TEDxFargo

Why do some classrooms look the same now as they did 70 years ago? In this passionate talk, second grade teacher Kayla Delzer speaks about her mission to revitalize learning and the classroom environment. Kayla explains how to release the power in the classroom by giving students ownership of their learning and making it relevant to them.
Breaking down the four walls of the classroom allows her students to become globally connected - and you won’t believe the endeavors her students conquer by embracing purposeful technology.

Kayla Delzer is a 2nd grade teacher and Project Lead the Way Lead Teacher in West Fargo, North Dakota. In August, she will begin her 8th year of teaching 2nd grade and her second year with West Fargo Public Schools (WFPS). Teaching is her true passion in life, and she enjoys her job and helping children to love learning and become creative problem solvers. Her students are her focus in life; they are like family to her. In August 2014, she completed her master’s degree in Elementary Education.
She also serves on the Technology Task Force and Social Media Task Force for WFPS. Her classroom Twitter account, @tweetingtopdogs, has allowed her students to learn virtually with hundreds of classrooms and educational experts from all over the world.
Kayla has teamed up with several companies to improve the lives of students and teachers, and she works frequently with GoNoodle and Remind. She is highly sought after by educational and technology companies to preview and review their products.

[ExploreWithIsaac]

More relevant now than when it was made 8 years ago. She needs to have more of these teaching videos. Her passion for teaching and her caring for her students shows.

[drishyad]

Relationship between teacher and a passionate teacher...the foundation of successful classroom. Great.

[dr.sumaiyashaikh]

Relationship between students and passionate teachers will remain for ages and is the foundation of good education...superb ... and I also personally do believe so..

[joseruiz]

Ask educators today whether cell phones are helpful or hurtful in their classrooms. I think you'll get a different response than what was expected in 2015.

[angelaking]

This talk gave me chills... and hope... and inspiration as I continue to walk on my path as an educator. Thank you!

[amandariviera]

This is why I love Interactive Media. It really should be used more in classrooms. Teachers need to be taught how to tell what technology will assist and enhance the classroom, rather than discounting all of it as the same as the worst of it.

Play is fundamental to learning, and is by definition interactive, with others and the world around them. Interactive Media, including video games (of course the value ranges), is the most immersive way to learn. Rather than reject the digital world, we need to embrace what it can do and use it to our advantage.

Great talk.

[yinellyrodriguez]

BYOD (bring your own device) approach to student learning is HUGE on schools who value technology as a form of investigating, researching, and student engagement. I truly am passionate about inquiry-based learning. She highlighted this fact in such beautiful and meaningful way.

[lydiahinrichs]

Mrs.Delzer was my teacher in 2 and I learned so much and she was and still is my fav teacher and as she would say you are A.W.U.E.S.O.M.E. Awesome awesome totally!

[amitapatel]

"Teachers as Learners and Students as Leaders "- a wonderful and useful discussion.

[dr.shuvojitmondal]

Reimagining Classrooms: Teachers as Learners and Students as Leaders by Kayla Delzer presented beautifully. Thank you very much Madam.

[helloliteracy]

Kayla is freaking amazing! She is changing education one student and teacher at a time! Loved every word she said. #ygg

[donnawoodford]

Incremental change might get me to a place of comfort, then I'll be asked to change again out of my comfort zone, and again, and...we either evolve and expand, or shrink trying to navigate in a world we hardly recognize. To have the human factor available should be comforting to many individuals such as myself.

[rebeccahickert]

I want to meet you! This is what I've been trying to impart in my school!!! It's not about teacher comfort--it's about student learning! I had the opportunity to hear George Couros a year ago, and he got this ball rolling for me, too.

[reganw.]

I wish teachers think like this instead of comparing students. That's the kind of school where I'm studying and it's exhausting. This is an amazing talk!

[kosmopolitanna]

Straight to the point, refreshing outlook on learning that should be reconsidered by all teachers really. Old methods might be obsolete in the 21 century as student has been born into high tech world therefore they need corresponding challenges so taking away technology from themthinking it's for their own good and protection, is definitely not preparing them to face the world outside. LOved the talk, the point at the end is solid.

[dr.ankitaleanwala]

Truely said mam.. The best part was relationship between the students and passionate teachers will be the foundation of sucessfull classrooms

[jankisingh]

the classroom environment is so important in facilitating teaching and learning in a proper manner.

[charitymagruder]

I am all for having cellphones/technology in classrooms. However I am a strong advocate for it only being used in a responsible way. Students must receive the proper structure and system for the utilization of any technology in the classroom . Teachers must be creative but mindful of monitoring the instruction with purpose.

[sunnylim]

This is even more amazing when I found out that this speech made in 2015. With the COVID-19, the changes in the classroom need to be accelerating and this talk should be more paid attention.

[consciousnobody]

this is one of the best TEDx/ TED talk on education I have seen :)