Passion for learning

One of the first things I ever learnt, right at the start of my teaching career, was that enthusiasm and passion often carry the day. Teachers who are passionate about their subject often infect their students with the same passion. Without some enthusiasm to study, the lesson is dull and dead. Teachers who are passionate usually go the extra mile to find that additional resource, or extra activity that enlivens learning, and enriches the student experience. My main subject is psychology. Although I don't often teach it directly, I find it infuses much of my teaching. This is because I love to learn about human behaviour and perception, and always crave more knowledge about what makes us who we are. I have a passion for psychology, and it somehow surfaces within just about everything I do as a teacher.

Teachers are professional learners. We get paid to be experts in our subject, as well as to help others to learn. The more we learn about our subject, the more we have to draw on when we are engaged in the act of teaching. If you are passionate about your subject, you will store up ideas, experiences and sources of inspiration throughout your career, and apply them where you think they are needed. Education is about passion, because it is the root to success, achievement, progress and motivation to continue learning for the rest of our lives.

'Develop a passion for learning. If you do you will never cease to grow.' - Anthony D'Angelo

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Passion for learning by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.