A Passion For Learning

This book concentrates on the 'heart' of teaching; teachers' moral purposes, the nature of care, emotional commitment and motivation - celebrating and acknowledging the best teaching and the best teachers.

Explains the theory and practice behind making a project-based system work.

This inquiry into self-study provides fresh insight into the motivation to learn. Beginning and ending with comprehensive and stimulating discussions of learning theories, it includes fourteen case studies of autodidactism in informal learning.

This book, celebrating teachers and teaching, contains the artistry and wisdom of 42 teachers who have remained passionate about classroom teaching for many years. Chapter 1, "Beginnings," includes "The First Day of School" (Richard A. Lawson), "Sustaining the Wonder of Teaching" and "Harvest Home," (Bettye T. Spinner), "The Call to Teach," (Victoria M. Gill), "What They Said," (Louise Wigglesworth), and "Going Forward," (Susanne Rubenstein). Chapter 2, "The Children," includes "Students with Special Needs" (Kristie C. Wolferman), "Clothes Make the Man," (Todd R. Nelson), "Transparencies" (Robin Alexandra Beach), "What Could Be Better?" (Justine S. Heinrichs), "Student Artwork and Excerpts," (Patricia E. Wilson), "Dear Governor Foster," (Lucienne Bond Simon), "This is a Story You Already Know" (Lois Marie Harrod), "Fallen From Grace" (Nette Forne Thomas), "The Ambiguities of Chokers, Lifelines, and Safety Nets" (Nette Forne Thomas), and "Passionate Community" (Irene E. McHenry). Chapter 3, "Cultural Perspectives," includes "Color Blind" (Lanie Higgins), "Unplanned Lessons" (Rose Ratteray), "Lessons and Lives" (Robert L. Bibens), "The Problem with Adam and Eve" (Fausto Sevila), and "Peaches and Plums" (Margaret M. Wong). Chapter 4, "On Teaching," includes "Play by Play" (Diane H. Close), "For Each One of Them I Teach" (Brenda Morrow), "Interdisciplinary Education for Visionary Thinking" and "A Child Drawing" (Douglas DePice), "The Reasons for the Seasons" (Kathy Marzilli Miraglia), "A Shared Approach to Teaching Education as a Dialogue" (Ronald Newburgh), "Never Tire of Learning: Never Tire of Teaching" (Wei-ling Wu), "Scenes from a Teaching Life" (Pamela M. Morgan), "I Love Teaching So Much That I Quit" (Beth Spencer), "Old-Fashioned Values Meet New-Fashioned Young Adults" (Patricia Hall Curvin), and "Ten Experiences in Which Somebody Learned Something" (Benjamin H. Thomas). Chapter 5, "The Power of Words," includes "I Teach" and "Works of Change" (Harry E. Wilson, Jr.), "Living Well in the Classroom" (Hamilton Salsich), and "Chasing Words in the Classroom" (Elizabeth June Wells). Chapter 6, "Reflections," includes "Women and Tools,""Orbitals," and "My Biological Clock is Ticking" (Katherine L. Philip), "Still Life with Mothers" (Peter E. Murphy), "Polishing" and "Remember Me?" (Jane Sprouse), "Sent to Siberia" (Kathy Prout), "Don't Waste the Day,""What About You?""A List of Prayers and a Gift,""For Winter,""Brooks" and "Not a Miracle Man" (Okey Canfield Chenoweth). Chapter 7, "Teacher/Mentors," includes "It's All About Remembering" (Suzanne H. Synder-Carroll), "Shop Thoughts" (Carter Jason Sio), "Snake Skin" (Carter H. Harrison, Jr.), and "Window" (David Downing). Chapter 8, "After Words," includes "An Honor to Witness" (Kit Frost), "After Words" (Scott McVay), and "About the Authors." (SM)

Would you want to be a student in your own classroom? In Passionate Learners: How to Engage and Empower Your Students, author Pernille Ripp challenges both novice and seasoned teachers to create a positive, interactive learning environment where students drive their own academic achievement. You’ll discover how to make fundamental changes to your classroom so learning becomes an exciting challenge rather than a frustrating ordeal. Based on the author’s personal experience of transforming her approach to teaching, this book outlines how to: • Build a working relationship with your students based on mutual trust, respect, and appreciation • Be attentive to your students’ needs and share ownership of the classroom with them • Break out of the vicious cycle of punishment and reward to control student behaviour • Use innovative and creative lesson plans to get your students to become more engaged and intellectually-invested learners, while still meeting your state standards • Limit homework and abandon traditional grading so that your students can make the most of their learning experiences without unnecessary stress • And much more! New to the second edition, you’ll find practical tools, such as teacher and student reflection sheets, parent questionnaires, and parent conference tools, available in the book and as eResources on our website (http://www.routledge.com/9781138916920) to help you build your own classroom of passionate learners.

Do you need parenting advice on how to inspire your child to love learning? Whether you homeschool or send your kids to public or private school, this is essential reading for your situation. Why? Because schooling has become a disaster. Your child's interests and uniqueness are disregarded, and structured curriculum and standards like Common Core place them on a conveyor belt that treats all children the same. This system crushes a child's curiosity. Your child deserves better! There is a better way: one that ensures your child sees learning as a joy and provides you, the parent, with a much less stressful way to educate and empower your son or daughter. In this book, Connor Boyack shares the exciting philosophy and empowering day-to-day steps involved in passion-driven education. A child's curiosity and natural desire to learn are like a tiny flame, easily extinguished unless it's protected and given fuel. This book will help you as a parent both protect that flame of curiosity and supply it with the fuel necessary to make it burn bright throughout your child's life. Let's ignite our children's natural love of learning! Five Things Discussed in the Book What's the problem with schools? Whether public, private, or "home," schooling is structured in a way that has significant negative outcomes for children academically, psychologically, and emotionally. To understand the solutions, you first need to review these problems.What's your goal? Too many parents simply send their children to school out of ritual and expectation, without thinking about the end result. Caring parents must ponder the outcomes of education and what they want their children to become. Once goals are established, we can make a plan.I need solutions! It's easy to point out problems with schooling. It's more important that we review serious and attainable solutions that can help you educate your child and preserve (or restore) their natural love of learning.What are the alternatives? If schools are inherently problematic and crush a child's curiosity, what can be done? We'll review several differing approaches to education that incorporate some of the solutions listed earlier.Passion-driven education The best way to educate a child is to speak to them in a language they already understand, using their personal interests as a "hook" to make other subjects interesting and relevant. We'll review some examples and then give you an action plan.

Discover ways to cultivate a thriving and passionate community of learners - in your classroom! In this book, educators and consultants Angela Maiers and Amy Sandvold show you how to spark and sustain your students' energy, excitement, and love of learning. This book presents ideas for planning and implementing a Clubhouse Classroom, where passion meets practice every day. In the Clubhouse Classroom, students learn new skills and explore their talents with the help of educators who are invigorated by the subjects they teach.

Passion is a pervasive concept in the work domain. Workers aspire to be passionate in the hope of finding meaning and satisfaction from their professional life, while employers dream of passionate employees who will ensure organizational performance. Does passion for work matter ? Does passion invariably bring about the anticipated positive outcomes or is there a darker side to passion for work that can also lead to negative outcomes for individuals and organizations? The goal of this book is to address these issues. This volume reviews major theories of work passion, focusing specifically on the dominant theory: the Dualistic Model of Passion. This theory distinguishes between two types of passion-harmonious and obsessive- and their associated determinants and consequences. This volume provides a comprehensive understanding of passion for work by addressing the origin of the concept and its theoretical issues: how can passion for work be developed, what are the consequences to be expected at the individual and organizational levels, and how can passion for work shed new light on contemporary issues in the workplace. Passion for Work: Theory, Research, and Applications synthesizes a vast body of existing research in the area, provides insights into new and exciting research avenues, and explores how passion for work can be cultivated in work settings in order to fulfill both workers' and employers' hopes for a productive and satisfying work life.