“When students are motivated to learn, they naturally acquire the skills they need to get the work done.” Sir Ken Robinson
Common sense tells us that students are more likely to learn if they are motivated by and engaged with the curriculum or project at hand. Now, hard science is telling us the same thing.
When students are passionately engaged in their learning - when they are mesmerized by their learning environment or activities – there are myriad responses in their brains making connections and building schema that simply would not occur without that passion or emotion.
Are you looking for some ideas on how to bring passion-based learning into the classroom? This post provides 25 suggestions, and each has a short description. Below are a few to whet your appetite, Click through to the post for more.
* Share your own passions with students.
* Let students share their passions.
* Connect students' passions to real-life scenarios.
* Help connect students to a new subject through an existing passion.
* Let yourself be inspired by other impassioned educators.