Breaking the Wall of Mindless Schools

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Educating the educators is for Manfred Prenzel the bedrock of maintaining competence in our knowledge society. In this 2010 Falling Walls lecture video, Prenzel explores the importance of motivation, value orientations, and social competencies to support teachers' professional development. As the national project manager of the OECD-Programme for International Student Assessment, Prenzel's contributions are rooted in years of experience as both an education manager and a researcher. Having served as the director of the Leibniz Institute for Science Education and currently serving as dean of the Technische Universität München School of Education, Prenzel strives to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses in educational systems and to identify levers for improving teaching and learning, particularly in schools.