How long will you try something? How long will you struggle before you give up? What about your students? Will they try and give up or will they as the students from this article indicates other countries persevere, work together, help one another then when they achieve, celebrate the achievement?
This article and post was talked about this summer in one of my professional development classes and it has caused me to think that we need to teach "progressive struggle." That ability to work on something until we can get it, rather than just giving up thinking it's not worth the struggle to persevere.
Thanks to Amy for sharing this in our PD. Now, let's continue to share this with other educators and parents as the first day of school rapidly approaches.
http://goo.gl/5tL7uH
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P.S. Remember to read the comments. They are just as encouraging!
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
Passion Driven?
Are you driven by your passion? Or is the day-to-day activities draining your energy and making you less creative and less passionate about teaching?
Author, Angela Maiers posted on her blog in January 2012 (yes, almost a year ago) about "The 5 C's of Passion Driven Leadership."
I was looking through the internet for some professional development while off for winter break and I came across her blog.
While she was primarily talking to school leaders (administrators, principals, school boards, etc.), I am reminded that we are the leaders in our classrooms. While we hope those in the Administration would follow her "5 C's", and have "passion driven conversations," we definitely should do this in our classrooms. We are leaders. We must be passionate leaders initiating these conversations each and every day with our students. We must model these conversations and these attributes to teach our students their learning can become passionate. As a result we will develop life-long learners.
Take a look at Angela's blog post and see what I've discovered in leading with passion in 2013 - Happy New Year!
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Author, Angela Maiers posted on her blog in January 2012 (yes, almost a year ago) about "The 5 C's of Passion Driven Leadership."
I was looking through the internet for some professional development while off for winter break and I came across her blog.
While she was primarily talking to school leaders (administrators, principals, school boards, etc.), I am reminded that we are the leaders in our classrooms. While we hope those in the Administration would follow her "5 C's", and have "passion driven conversations," we definitely should do this in our classrooms. We are leaders. We must be passionate leaders initiating these conversations each and every day with our students. We must model these conversations and these attributes to teach our students their learning can become passionate. As a result we will develop life-long learners.
Take a look at Angela's blog post and see what I've discovered in leading with passion in 2013 - Happy New Year!
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
A great site on Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching & Technology in Education
The University of Georgia has created a wiki site which provides an enormous amount of content and information on teaching, learning and technology. Check it out HERE!
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