Make it Fun, Teach

How do you keep up your enthusiasm in the classroom?  How do you stay energetic and passionate as a teacher?  How do you stay motivated?

A critical component of enjoying teaching is to make learning fun.  When you make the content fun, you enjoy it more (and so do the students).  Figure out what excites you and creatively integrate it into your teaching somehow.  Do you like dogs?  Create math problems about dogs.  Do you love ice cream?  Eat ice cream while reading about how ice cream is made.  Do you love gardening?  Grow a mini garden for science.  Do you love basketball?  Make up a "garbage can basketball" review game or have students earn "b-ball bucks" as a classroom reward system.  Whatever you love, work it into an area that you teach. You'll soon find that you're enjoying teaching more than ever before! 

For example, I enjoy the excitement about learning that comes from field trips.  However, we are limited in the number of field trips we can take.  So, I created a virtual field trip packet.  Taking these "trips" with my class when time allows has brought back a spark of excitement.  Click here to check those out. 

If you are looking for more encouragment for teaching, you might enjoy my blog post about you exceed the average just by choosing to be an educator. (Click here to view it.) You might also enjoy just browsing my blog archive to read all the uplifting messages.

As always, hang in there, Teach!
Happy Teaching,
Frank

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