Teaching Kids to Love Learning, Not Just Endure It by Michael Connolly
Author and educator Michael Connolly’s book, Teaching Kids to Love Learning, Not Just Endure It, published by Rowman and Littlefield, is available at Barnes & Noble Bookstores
Written for parents and teachers, Teaching Kids to Love Learning, Not Just EndureIt emphasizes the need for passion and creativity in today’s classrooms and argues that current national education policy is stifling both. This book offers many ideas for how we can re-introduce passion and creativity into both teaching and learning.
--Filled with real-life stories that demonstrate how the dual affection of a teacher for her students and her subject (discipline) results in benign infection that brings students to love learning rather than just endure it.
--Provides guidance in how to establish and nurture a teacher/pupil relationship that is essential if young people are to discover their own passion for learning.
--Identifies practices that smother enthusiasm for learning.
--Gives examples of how some students, encouraged by teachers, are making significant contributions to our society even while they are still in school.
--Provides inspiration and encouragement for teachers, parents, coaches, and all who aspire to teach young people to love learning.
Mike Connolly has worked as a teacher and administrator in elementary, middle and high schools in the USA and as a principal in schools in Thailand, Costa Rica, the Netherlands and Vietnam. His articles on education appear regularly in national and international journals.
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