Passion with Balance How to Maintain Your Zeal for Things Academic in the midst of the Insanity of EOY Kjell Fenn (c) kfennconsulting.com 2013

Passion with Balance

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

the Insanity of EOY

Kjell Fenn(c) kfennconsulting.com 2013

Reigniting the Passion of Teaching

When there’s only 58 days left!

(c) kfennconsulting.com 2013

Are We Almost There?


Have you experienced this?


We have to remind ourselves

• that our jobs are meaningful• (the pay doesn’t match the meaningfulness, but

we are passionate about what we do)• 30% of student growth is due directly to effective

teachers


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.


The Bullet Train




Passion


The Balance


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


Make the most of the time

• In the classroom

• On break/Prep time

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

• At home


Inquire within

• Check your motives– Look at your behaviors

• Find your strengths

• Ignore the weaknesses• Challenge the weaknesses


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 (c) kfennconsulting.com 2013

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!


5 Habits

• Speak positively

• Make the most of the time

• Inquire within

• Learn more

•Encourage others


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


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(c) kfennconsulting.com 2013

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.


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.


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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Thank you!

• Remember to SMILE and

• Remember that you are preparing kids for greatness!

Kjell Fenn

www.kfennconsulting.com


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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 (c) kfennconsulting.com 2013