This weeks question is based on the first aspect of PIRATE
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So what it passion? How will it help and why will this make you a better teacher and your students learn more? Dave opens up the deep, dark secret that all of us hide. We are afraid to speak it, but the only way to fix a problem is to lay out in the open.
NOT EVERYDAY I AM AT MY BEST.
NOT EVERYDAY DO I HAVE PASSION WHAT I AM TEACHING.
NOT EVERYDAY DO I FEEL MY BEST.
So the question then remains what do we do when this happens? What do we do when we are not feeling macro-molecules, and how they play an important roll in the entire scheme of life? At this point, we have to move past our content passion to pull from our professional and personal passions. As Dave encourages us to pursue "identifying, developing, and using all three of these categories" and even write down your answers.
This week is a multiple question week. Feel free to post all your answers one at a time, all at once, or as you see fit. Post them below in the comments, tweet them out, make an image and share it out, whatever moves you. Use your passions, and show them off. Here are the questions, I will send these out this week intermittently and look forward to your answers.
1. We all passions in our specific content. What is the one topic or lesson you love to do with your class? Why do you love it?
2. Your Professional Passion will help you pull you through those less than interesting topics. Why are you a teacher? How can you bring this into your classroom?
3. Finally, we all have Personal Passions. These are the events and things we spend our time on when we are not i the classroom. What are these for you? Can you bring these passions into your classroom? Do your students show these same passions?
There they are. I will send these out as tweets throughout the week. Answer them in any order you want, but please do answer all questions. Here are mine:
"Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks." - Yo-Yo Ma
Here is the link to the Google Form once you find your passions https://goo.gl/5RRejv . Again, not necessary unless you are a WISD employee. Feel free to submit, even if you are not.
1) I love teaching the students the strategies needed in order to answer reading comprehension questions. I like teaching this because these techniques are needed for students to be successful in their life.
ReplyDelete2) I am a teacher because I want to try, my hardest, to change lives the way my former teachers changed mine. Whether it is in my content area or just in a personal way. I try to get to know the students as who they are and try to capture their attention in a personal way.
3) I have a passion for singing and writing my own music. Many times I feel like maybe as a class we could come up with songs to sing in order to help remember different strategies/ techniques. I am always afraid to do so because I don't want to bore my kids. I have learned, however, over the years that many of my students love music the way that I do. We talk about what we love about choir and why singing makes us happy.