Passion-based learning, to me, is finding something that you love to do, and investing yourself in it. Passion-based learning can occur in the classroom, work-force, and free time. Sadly, there is a big divide between what we want to learn and what we “have” to learn. Schools today are focused on teaching from the book. Students become disinterested in learning the “boring” material in textbooks, and develop interests for their own personal goals and activities. It is in these cases where curriculum must be changed. For example, a student who is passionate about building and shooting off rockets needs to have learning based on his love for rockets. In a math class, it is possible that this student would be bored because he feels the numbers and the problems have no relevance to the real world. However, it would be simple and effective to integrate rockets and math. Simple word questions could be altered to help the student gain more interest in math and become passionate about the math within the problems about rockets. Disclaimer: There is absolutely nothing wrong with having interest outside of school. It just seems that most students have very little interest INSIDE of school. So, it is essential that the two become mixed together to bolster the students’ learning potential and experiences. I happen to be one of those students who is much more passionate outside of the classroom. It seems that I have constant passions, and other passions that change every month! The new monthly passions surprise me in a way. Currently, I have a great interest in playing cards, particularly shuffling them in cool and fancy ways. I am sure this topic of my attention will be replaced in the next couple weeks, but for now, it is something I spend a lot of time practicing. The more passionate I am about something, the more time I spend on it. Because passion is so contagious, the things I choose to be passionate about are very important. The more passionate I become about a topic, the more my friends around me do the same. It is important to be passionate about things that are uplifting and encouraging to the people in my life. Luckily for me, and everyone, the things we are passionate about usually are positive. To sum it up, passion is a near must in life. Without feeling passionate about something, a person truly does not feel consumed with interest and desire.
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Jordan Barta
2/20/2020 08:32:12 am
I think passion based learning would make kids have more fun in school because it allows them to look into things that they are interested into and not just going to school and learning the same thing over and over again Great blog.
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Brent Barge
2/23/2020 03:39:46 pm
I think exploratory classes help in this area. For example, I really enjoyed woodworking class in high school because I was not sitting in a classroom doing paperwork. I was interested in creating my project and was able to focus most of my time in the class on completing it.
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