1. THINK PEOPLE AND PASSIONS RATHER THAN CLASSES AND
CONTENT
EDUC 518
Harriet Greaney
Marilupe Rodriguez
Wenjie Wang
2. A key aspect of partnering education is discovering students
passions and interests. Todays teachers need to help students
discover, understand, and develop their passions.
PARTNERING + PASSIONS
3. LEARN ABOUT STUDENTS INTERESTS AND PASSIONS
While partnering, it is important to know students passions in
detail.
Passion provides a source of energy that inspires learners to make
an effort and determines how long they will be willing to endure an
activity, how hard they will pursue it, and how much they
learn.
4. Passion means a persons central focus, what the learner
cares about most, or what moves him or her emotionally.
A student need not become passionate about learning English in
order to succeed in English class. Rather, the student needs
connect English learning to his passionate interests.
Todays students expect individualized treatment.
WHY LEARN ABOUT STUDENTS PASSIONS?
5. Educators must discover the passions of individual
studentsthe things that truly interest themand use them as the
drivers of student engagement and achievement.
By accessing students passions, we can create individual learning
that will stick in students minds, be valuable in their lives, and
make them want to know more.
PASSIONS DRIVE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
6. Educators can learn from their students by helping them find
their passions and by organizing class activities around the theme
of self-expression.
To discover students passions, educators can use various
methods--personalized tasks, idea journals, speaking circles, or
interactive questionnaires.
LEARN FROM YOUR STUDENTS
7. HOW CAN WE USE PASSIONS?
To build respect and tolerance for individuality.
To inspire more variety in our lessons.
To allow us to create meaningful guiding questions.
To encourage us to get and give constant feedback.
8. Adjusting to new roles takes time, so patience is important
at the beginning of the process.
PARTNERING=NEW ROLES FOR TEACHERS & STUDENTS
New teacher and student roles lead to improved mutual
respect.
9. Students become more active and equal participants in the
learning process.