Fires, Chapter 6

This chapter was about motivating students. I loved it when Vance talked about teachers with passion, and about how when teachers are truly passionate about their subject and what they are teaching that students can tell and want to learn the material. I also agree that it is important to let kids know where they are going to need the knowledge you are teaching them in the real world, so they can make those connections and care about the material as such. Bringing in people who used the knowledge you teach to get ahead in life into the classroom also can be a valuable tool that I had never thought about before. Maybe I could bring in a CSI person who can talk about how she learned through character analysis how to recognize a criminal... I loved the table about when the best and worst times to do things are, like how the day before a huge break you should have a make-up day or something because no one is going to be focused.