Feed Your Passion
While I
watched the Passion-based Learning in Action video featuring Brian Crosby one
thing kept coming to mind, teachers need to feed their own passion. Passion is like a living thing that requires
food, air, and exercise to stay healthy and grow.
When
teachers don’t feed their own passions by taking that summer writing class,
joining that book club or hiking club, traveling to the places they want to
see, their own interest begins to wither.
Sharing their passions with others gets it out in the open where it can
breathe and be stretched. It is so easy
to get bogged down in the mundane of our work that we lose the excitement. Test prep, study skills, paperwork, meetings,
although important should not be the end all, be all of our days with our
students.
Feeding our
own passions reminds us how learning can be fun and deep and lasting. It reminds us that is what we should be
bringing into our own classrooms.
Knowing your
curriculum and your students well, allows you the flexibility to remix things
and do things in different ways to feed their passions. It helps you to keep high expectations for
their learning and keep it joyful. So as
the summer approaches find that thing that will reignite your passion and set
aside a little time for it. It will make
you a better teacher in September.
I agree, in order to keep our students passionate about learning, we, as educators, need to show our passion for learning and promote life long learning. If we are excited about what we are doing it shows and students will develop the same love for learning we have.
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