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From Classroom to Egypt: Teacher looks back on exciting adventures
Manfred Bucior-Krause has been teaching English and French in Giessen since 2000 and shares his experiences from Egypt.
From Classroom to Egypt: Teacher looks back on exciting adventures
October 29, 2025 brings exciting news from the world of education! Manfred Bucior-Krause, an experienced teacher at the Liebigschule in Giessen, has been teaching English and French for over two decades. His passion for languages and his roots in the French language come into their own. As liebigs-giessen.de reports, Bucior-Krause has gained valuable experience not only in Germany but also abroad, including a year at schools in France and seven years at a German school in Egypt, where he worked from 2016 to 2023.
His time in Egypt had a lasting impact on him, particularly through the challenges of running schools in a country with incomplete democratic structures. Bucior-Krause and his family consciously decided to open a girls' school to promote access to education for girls in the region. There, the students learned four languages up to their German Abitur: Arabic, German, English and French. An important insight from his time in Egypt was the realization that even in the greatest chaos there is a certain order. However, after his return to the harmonious nature of Giessen, he often longs for the sunny way of life of the Egyptians and enjoys cycling through the forests.
YouTube as a learning aid in the classroom
Nowadays, teaching staff are increasingly interested in integrating modern technologies into teaching. According to a report by youtube.com, an impressive 94% of teachers use the YouTube platform to support their lesson plans. Recently, YouTube announced a new music education series called “Think Like a Musician,” developed in collaboration with TED-Ed and Education Through Music. The aim of this initiative is to provide teachers worldwide with high-quality music teaching resources.
The videos in this series contain not only information but also comprehensive lesson plans and assessment matrices, encouraging interactive student participation. Additionally, YouTube provides educators with a distraction-free platform through the YouTube Player for Education that seamlessly integrates with common educational tools. In the USA, 92% of viewers use YouTube to obtain information, and the platform has long established itself as an indispensable tool for acquiring knowledge in numerous subject areas.
Time change in Canada
Another important news concerns the time change in Canada: On November 2, 2025, the clocks will go back one hour at 2:00 a.m. This is part of a broader debate that is also taking place in various US states as well as in the provinces of British Columbia, Ontario and Alberta. Despite the feedback from the people who expressed themselves in a public consultation on the issue in Quebec, with 91% of participants calling for the change to be abolished, progress in these regions is quite slow. As timeanddate.com notes, the trend toward maintaining daylight saving time shows that many citizens prefer it for practical reasons.
Clocks in Canada will change ahead of most European countries, where daylight saving time ends on October 26, 2025. Meanwhile, some provinces in Canada, such as Alberta, have already held referendums to set future timing arrangements, but with no clear result. This shows that this topic will continue to provoke many discussions and decisions in society.
Overall, it shows that the world of education, be it through dedicated teachers or through modern technologies such as YouTube, remains dynamic and forces us to explore new ways of imparting knowledge. Bucior-Krause's experiences in Egypt and developments in Canada are just two facets of a complex educational landscape that is constantly changing.