Full Description
Turn your classroom into a thriving community of learners! In The Passion-Driven Classroom, bestselling authors Angela Maiers and Amy Sandvold show you how to spark and sustain your students' energy, excitement, and love of learning. This updated edition offers a new framework for changing your mindset and implementing a passion-driven classroom, where passion meets practice every day as students learn new skills and explore their talents. You'll come away with specific examples of how to set up your classroom, how to manage it, and how to assign passion projects where students take the lead. With this book, you'll be able to move away from prescription-driven learning toward Passion-Driven Learning, so you can make a real difference in the lives of your students.
Contents
Contents
About the Authors
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Achievement Gap Or Passion Gap?
Listening To Our Students
Minding the Passion Gap
Closing the Gap
Step One: Know and Show Your Passion
Step Two: Know and Show the Students' Passion
Step Three: Know and Show the World Passion
2 Let's Talk About Passion
Defining Passion
P.A.S.S.I.O.N.
PASSION IS
Passion-Driven Learning Is More Than a Project
What Passion Can Do
3 The Clubhouse Mindset: Where Passion Meets Practice
Our Very First Passion-Driven Learning Club
The Philosophy: Clubs Are Passion Playing Fields
What Makes Club Life Enticing?
The Passion Discovery Continuum
The Workshop Classroom: Driven by Curiosity
The Role of the Teacher: Expert Learner and Passion Practitioner
The Role of the Student: Apprentice Learner and Global Citizen
The Resident Expert Wall
More Than Fluff
4 A Passion-Driven Classroom: The Essentials
Essential #1: The Learning Clubs instead of Classroom Jobs
Essential #2: You Matter Time
Essential #3: Reflection
Essential #4: The Task Board
Essential #5: Good-Fit Tools And Technology
Good-Fit Technology
Remember to Include Books!
H.E.A.R.T.—A Strategy for Deep Meaning
The H.E.A.R.T. Technique
Essential #6: Celebration
Doing and Being
5 Organizing the Passion-Driven Classroom
The Physical Environment
Meeting Spaces
Middle and High School Practices and Spaces
Grouping Students
The Students' Seating/Desk Arrangement
Passion-Driven Tools
Key Reflection Tool: The Student Thinkbook
The Clubhouse Classroom Routine Sequence
1. The Opening Message: You Matter Time
2. The Daily Boardroom Meeting
3. The Learning Clubs
4. Content Connections
5. The Closing
Passion From Day One: Simple Changes = Big Impacts
Invite Students to Create the Classroom Environment
The Crucial Conversation
Rules or Manifesto?
Heart Maps
The Wonderful Gift Lesson
More Ideas to Explore
6 Managing the Clubhouse Classroom
The Three Phases In Action
Phase One: Launching the Learning—Passion Discovery
The Opening Message Anchor Lessons
The Boardroom and Learning Club Anchor Lessons
Learning Clubs: Bringing It All Together
Phase Two: Practicing Our Passion—Learning Is Thinking
The Opening Message Anchor Lessons
The Boardroom and Learning Club Anchor Lessons
Bring It All Together Lessons—Learning Club Tools
Closing Phase Two
Phase Three: Sharing Our Gifts—The Passion Project
The Google Way
The Passion Project
The Opening Message Lessons
The Boardroom Lessons and Passion Project Work
Tools for Sharing Our Passion
7 From the Trenches: The Voices of Passion
Passion Still Matters
New to Edchat?
Challenge
8 Closing Thoughts
The Promise of Passion
Closing Thoughts: Choosing Passion in Times of Change
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