Passion with Balance

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Passion with Balance

• How to Maintain Your Zeal for Things Academic in
  the midst of the Insanity of EOY

Kjell Fenn
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Reigniting the Passion of Teaching

• When theres only 58 days left!

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• Are We Almost There?

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Have you experienced this?
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We have to remind ourselves

• that our jobs are meaningful
• (the pay doesnt match the meaningfulness, but we
  are passionate about what we do)
• 30 of student growth is due directly to
  effective teachers

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Teachers as Trains

• At the beginning of the school year we have X
  number of cars, and every month (or maybe every
  week, or every day) a new car is added, yet none
  are removed.
• - teaching 5 classes
• - hall duty or lunch duty or duty duty
• - parents
• - students w disabilities
• - students who are often out of the school or
  late
• - pie sales, bake sales, costume parties,
  assemblies, fire drills, field trips, etc.

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The Bullet Train
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Affectivity
Zeal
Fervor
dedication
Enthusiasm
Hurrah
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Passion
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The Balance
Passion
fatigue
frustration
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Speak positively

• Stick and stones . . .

• How we feel is a direct result of the words
  spoken to us, about us, and from us.

• Memory comes from emotional attachments

• Not sugarcoating finding the genuine positive
  aspect of the situation

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Make the most of the time

• Passion is the fuel for activity, and inactivity
  is the fuel for boredom

• In the classroom
• On break/Prep time

• At home

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Inquire within

• Check your motives
• Look at your behaviors
• Find your strengths
• Ignore the weaknesses

• Challenge the weaknesses

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Learn more

• About the art of teaching
• Observe others
• Discuss ideas

• About the science of teaching
• Proactively seek more information
• Proactively seek more knowledge
• Proactively seek more skills

• About kids
• Interests
• Talents
• Strengths

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Encourage others

• Support is additive
• As one encourages another, both are heartened.

• Students need it, too
• We easily forget that if we feel dispassionate
  and stressed, so do the students!

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5 Habits

• Speak positively
• Make the most of the time
• Inquire within
• Learn more
• Encourage others

How do you maintain Passion with Balance?
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Smile
"It has been said that it takes 43 muscles to
frown, but only 17 muscles to smile and that
makes it 2.5 times easier to smile." Michael
D. Gray
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On Opportunities

• Teachers are the ones who prepare students for
  boarding
• We help them pack
• We give them directions
• We make their lunches
• We show them the train station
• We teach them to read the train schedule
• We buy their tickets of preparedness

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Greatness

• Greatness is determined by effect.
• A game is great because it excites an audience.
• A mechanic is great because the car is fixed.
• A chef is great because the food is delicious
• A book is great because it arouses deep
  imagination and thought.

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A student knows what a 3 is

• What 3 x 3 is
• What the square root of 3 is
• How to determine that if he has 3 friends and
  they all want 3 hot dogs which each cost 30 Lps,
  what the cost will be.

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A student knows what a plot is

• What a theme is
• How to determine characters motives
• In what ways context effects those characters and
  the story
• How to detect if she is being manipulated by
  peers, salesmen, or politicians.

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1973
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Thank you!

• Remember to SMILE and
• Remember that you are preparing kids for
  greatness!
• Kjell Fenn
• www.kfennconsulting.com