Inspiring and Thought-Provoking Book for Teachers

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	• The Passionate Teacher: A Practical Guide (2nd Edition) Robert L. Fried Beacon Press, 2001 - 318 pages average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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William Ward once said, "Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning." If this is true, passion is what lights the fire. CS Lewis says that he task of modern education is not to cut down jungles but irrigate desserts. This is the goal of the passionate teacher. Robert Fried, in this book, does exactly that; he shows how to be the passionate teacher that will truly motivate students to want learn. Two thumbs up!

Inspiring and Thought-Provoking Book for Teachers

This book will give you permission and practical support to be the best teacher you can be, even if that is completely different from the teacher down the hall...

I used this book over the summer like an instruction manual to build a course, and I have already been very pleased with the results I see in my classroom! Fried shows you how to think about what you are teaching and why you want to teach it, working step by step, and building up slowly from a solid theoretical foundation.

This is a hopeful book, full of excitement about the possibilities of teaching and based on the idea that you can design your courses so that students will rise to the challenge and perform at their best.

I have not read a better book written for teachers about teaching. I wish I had read this before my first year, so I could have applied the method right from the start.

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Wonderful Surprise

I recieved this book anonymusly by mail, and curiously dipped into it. Surprisingly I was captivated from the start. This is a book of soulful ideas made to mix the minds of our youth. It inspired me to redesign my entire year planning, and the impact has been tremendous. I bought 3 more and sent them to some peers of mine.

This book is great for veteran and new teachers

This author knows what he is talking about. The book has great examples and is packed with powerful insights into "The game of school."

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Following up on the success of the The Passionate Teacher: A Practical Guide, Robert Fried's The Passionate Learner is an inspirational and practical guide to reclaiming students' passionate engagement in learning.

All preschool children are passionate, curious learners. Somewhere along the way?in school?many, many kids become alienated from the joy of learning. Academically successful and frustrated students alike become reluctant or resistant or merely obedient. How could school be different so that this didn't happen?

Fried starts with vivid portraits of young children as passionate learners, invoking the voices and hopes of parents and teachers. He shows us how a "chasm" develops between the initial promise of every child and the reality of life in school. Then, step by step, he shows how teachers?and parents as allies?can encourage and develop passionate learning in all kids.

Filled with stories from classrooms, the voices of teachers, and practical suggestions, Fried advocates a vision of curriculum as a web of relationships and a revised understanding of "excellence" that supports passionate learning. Fried identifies with teachers' frustration, but then patiently and enthusiastically leads them in a new direction. Topics include: making children passionate readers who pick up books on their own; teaching children to be confident orators in class; holding on to passionate teaching and learning in an era of standardization. Inspirational, accessible, and filled with detailed storytelling, The Passionate Learner will inspire and instruct teachers and parents of children at all grade levels.

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