Teacherscribe’s
Teaching Tip #7
How do you keep your passion up?
How I keep my passion up #3: I am a reader. I am constantly consuming ideas and
strategies. I think the worst phrase
after “That’s how we’ve always done it here” is “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix
it.”
This summer I read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. It blew me away. Not only is it a text that is read in
colleges across the country, but it also challenges a lot of our ideas about
success and genius. So I was able to get
copies for my College Comp class. That now
puts the reading load in that class to The
Dip, The Element, The Ghost Map, two classic novels, Outliers, and another novel of their
choice. Something is going to have to
go. Or at least I am going to have to do
a far more efficient job of teaching in order to get all of these things
in. But in the words of one of my
heroes, Coach Mumm, “I’ll find a way to make it work. I have to.”
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