Cherry Award Summit on Great Teaching - Dr. Ed Burger
Transforming individuals and systems through the power of effective thinking: Teaching to uplift lives today and tomorrow
One of the quintessential elements of formal education is that it offers students lessons that can stay with them long after they have forgotten the mechanics they often mimic in our classrooms. The goal of education is to transform lives — to help individuals learn how to grow: to think more wisely and create more imaginatively today so that they can go off and artfully innovate as well as solve the important problems of tomorrow. As we will discuss together, these practices of thought can be taught explicitly throughout the curriculum in every discipline and applied throughout life.
To see an illustration of how these practices can be incorporated within the content matter of a subject, you are invited to a lively colloquium by our speaker.
About Edward Burger
Dr. Edward Burger is President and CEO of the St. David's Foundation, and President Emeritus of Southwestern University as well as Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and a leader on thinking, innovation, and creativity. Previously he was the Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Mathematics at Williams College. Burger has delivered over 700 addresses worldwide at venues including Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Johns Hopkins as well as at the Smithsonian Institution, Microsoft Corporation, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the New York Public Library, and the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of over 70 research articles, books, and video series (starring in over 8,000 on-line videos), including the book The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking, published by Princeton University Press and translated into over a dozen languages worldwide. His latest book, Making Up Your Mind: Thinking Effectively Through Creative Puzzle-Solving, also published by Princeton University Press, was on several of Amazon's Hot New Releases lists.
In 2006, Reader’s Digest listed Burger in their annual “100 Best of America” as America’s Best Math Teacher. In 2010 he was named the winner of the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching. The Huffington Post named him one of their "Game Changers" and Microsoft Worldwide Education selected him as one of their “Global Heroes in Education.” In 2013, Burger was inducted as an inaugural Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. His program, Higher ED, produced by NPR's Austin affiliate KUT is available at kut.org/topic/higher-ed/ and on iTunes.