The Passion-Driven Classroom - Maiers, Angela

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Contents

About the Authors

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Achievement Gap Or Passion Gap?

Listening To Our Students

Minding the Passion Gap

Closing the Gap

• Step One: Know and Show Your Passion
• Step Two: Know and Show the Students' Passion
• Step Three: Know and Show the World Passion

2 Let's Talk About Passion

Defining Passion

P.A.S.S.I.O.N.

• PASSION IS

Passion-Driven Learning Is More Than a Project

What Passion Can Do

3 The Clubhouse Mindset: Where Passion Meets Practice

Our Very First Passion-Driven Learning Club

The Philosophy: Clubs Are Passion Playing Fields

What Makes Club Life Enticing?

The Passion Discovery Continuum

The Workshop Classroom: Driven by Curiosity

The Role of the Teacher: Expert Learner and Passion Practitioner

The Role of the Student: Apprentice Learner and Global Citizen

The Resident Expert Wall

More Than Fluff

4 A Passion-Driven Classroom: The Essentials

Essential #1: The Learning Clubs instead of Classroom Jobs

Essential #2: You Matter Time

Essential #3: Reflection

Essential #4: The Task Board

Essential #5: Good-Fit Tools And Technology

• Good-Fit Technology
• Remember to Include Books!
• H.E.A.R.T.-A Strategy for Deep Meaning
• The H.E.A.R.T. Technique

Essential #6: Celebration

• Doing and Being

5 Organizing the Passion-Driven Classroom

The Physical Environment

• Meeting Spaces
• Middle and High School Practices and Spaces
• Grouping Students
• The Students' Seating/Desk Arrangement

Passion-Driven Tools

• Key Reflection Tool: The Student Thinkbook

The Clubhouse Classroom Routine Sequence

• 1. The Opening Message: You Matter Time
• 2. The Daily Boardroom Meeting
• 3. The Learning Clubs
• 4. Content Connections
• 5. The Closing

Passion From Day One: Simple Changes = Big Impacts

• Invite Students to Create the Classroom Environment
• The Crucial Conversation
• Rules or Manifesto?
• Heart Maps
• The Wonderful Gift Lesson
• More Ideas to Explore

6 Managing the Clubhouse Classroom

The Three Phases In Action

Phase One: Launching the Learning-Passion Discovery

• The Opening Message Anchor Lessons
• The Boardroom and Learning Club Anchor Lessons
• Learning Clubs: Bringing It All Together

Phase Two: Practicing Our Passion-Learning Is Thinking

• The Opening Message Anchor Lessons
• The Boardroom and Learning Club Anchor Lessons
• Bring It All Together Lessons-Learning Club Tools
• Closing Phase Two

Phase Three: Sharing Our Gifts-The Passion Project

• The Google Way
• The Passion Project
• The Opening Message Lessons
• The Boardroom Lessons and Passion Project Work
• Tools for Sharing Our Passion

7 From the Trenches: The Voices of Passion

Passion Still Matters

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Challenge

8 Closing Thoughts

The Promise of Passion

Closing Thoughts: Choosing Passion in Times of Change

References