Passionate Teaching in Troubled Times
Lessons for Today's Classroom
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Passionate Teaching in Troubled Times
Narrated by:
Max Newland
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Narrated by:
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Max Newland
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Written by:
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Robert L. Fried
Passion is not just a personality trait that some people have and others lack, but rather something discoverable, teachable, and reproducible. First published more than a quarter century ago, Passionate Teaching in Troubled Times is a hopeful guide to motivated instruction, drawing on the voices, stories, and success of teachers in urban, suburban, and rural classrooms. These ideas, and the stories of the inspiring teachers who embodied them, are as vivid and pertinent today as they were in 1995. But so much in education has changed.
As American politics are swept up in antagonism, division, and what appears to be a rebellion by vast swaths of the population against science, knowledge, reason, and truth—all of which can manifest as being against education—this revised edition of The Passionate Teacher seeks to address the new problems, opportunities, and conditions that have shaped education today: post-COVID learning, teaching history and social science without fear, encouraging kindness and anti-bullying in today's classrooms, confronting truths and falsehoods, and more.
The three pillars of the original edition: The Passion, The Stance, and The Game of School remain at the core of the book, amplified by five new chapters, including the voices of Teachers of the Year like Joshua Chard from Maine, De’Shawn Washington from Massachusetts, Carly Maloney from Utah, and Taylor Bussinger from Kansas.
Written in a non-jargon, down-to-earth style, Passionate Teaching in Troubled Times is what new and veteran teachers, and those who hire and mentor them, are looking for. With new material, this book offers the wisdom of teachers who daily employ their skills, their knowledge, their experience, and above all their devotion to every student in their path.
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Critic Reviews
"A deeply felt meditation on the vital role of passion in good teaching . . . stuffed with . . . samples, stories, interviews with good teachers, lists of things to try. . . . Fried writes about education with passionate, engrossing pragmatism. As a teacher, perhaps the highest compliment that I can pay this book is that I'm planning right now to try out some of its suggestions." —Anthony Rotundo, The Washington Post
"Convinces us of the value of passion by actually taking us into classrooms where teachers dissolve student disinterest not with 'tricks' but rather with an authentic commitment to what and who they are teaching." —Teacher Magazine
"A superb book, better than any other of its kind." —Seymour Sarason, author of Teaching as a Performing Art
"My ideal of a 'how-to' book." —From the foreword by Deborah Meier, author of The Power of Their Ideas
"The best blend of theory and practice I've found. My colleagues and I use it in workshops for new and veteran teachers, and as a cornerstone of a new master's program. The new chapter is an exciting addition to an already great book." —Randy Wisehart, high school teacher and college instructor, Earlham College
"Convinces us of the value of passion by actually taking us into classrooms where teachers dissolve student disinterest not with 'tricks' but rather with an authentic commitment to what and who they are teaching." —Teacher Magazine
"A superb book, better than any other of its kind." —Seymour Sarason, author of Teaching as a Performing Art
"My ideal of a 'how-to' book." —From the foreword by Deborah Meier, author of The Power of Their Ideas
"The best blend of theory and practice I've found. My colleagues and I use it in workshops for new and veteran teachers, and as a cornerstone of a new master's program. The new chapter is an exciting addition to an already great book." —Randy Wisehart, high school teacher and college instructor, Earlham College
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