Below are 5 characteristics of PASSIONATE teachers according the Robert L. Friend author of the book "The Passionate Teacher".
- Passionate teachers love to work with young people, but they also care deeply about knowledge and ideas, so they try never to let their compassion for a student serve as a reason for excusing that student's ignorance or lack of skill.
- Passionate teachers are alive to events both in the classroom and in the world outside school, and they bring those perspectives together in their work with students.
- Passionate teachers have the capacity for spontaneity and humor and for great seriousness, often at almost the same time.
- Passionate teachers are always taking risks, and they make at least as many mistakes as anybody else. What's different is how they react to their mistakes...
- Passionate teachers take their mission seriously and communicate their beliefs. They truly are passionate teachers, not just intense people who hide their passions behind a workday mask and allow only the rare student to connect with them.
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