Teaching Kids to Love Learning, Not Just Endure It

By (author) Michael Connolly

Publication date:

16 June 2011

Length of book:

146 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

ISBN-13: 9781607099574

With so much emphasis these days on making students globally competitive and prepared to beat students of other nations on international assessments, and with so much talk about academic rigor and emphasis on rigid accountability measures, we are in danger of losing sight of the most fundamental element of successful teaching and learning — love. Teaching Kids to Love Learning, Not Just Endure It makes the case that if we really want "no child left behind" we must return to the solid foundation on which successful teaching and learning has always rested — the love of teacher for her students (and they for her) and the passion of the teacher for her discipline and her desire to share that passion with her students.

Chapter 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 What Is Love?
Chapter 4 Autopsies
Chapter 5 Learning Is an Emotional Experience
Chapter 6 Defying the Current Teaching-Learning Paradigm
Chapter 7 Creating a Supportive Learning Environment
Chapter 8 A Remedy for What Ails Education
Chapter 9 Another Love: A Teacherís Passion for Her Subject
Chapter 10 Discipline: The Gift of Love
Chapter 11 Bringing Awesome Back into the Classroom
Chapter 12 Restoring the Joy to Learning
Chapter 13 When Learning Isnít Fun
Chapter 14 Education Must Nourish the Spirit
Chapter 15 When Education Fails to Nourish the Spirit
Chapter 16 Whatís So Right about Being Wrong?
Chapter 17 Whatís So Right about Being Wrongóan Example
Chapter 18 Learning to Love Their Questions
Chapter 19 Teaching Students to Value Commitment
Chapter 20 Revising Our Reductionist View of Education
Chapter 21 We Donít Just Love You We Need You
Chapter 22 Learning to Love Unlearning
Chapter 23 Discovering the Wonder of Science
Chapter 24 Are You a Wonder-filled Teacher?
Chapter 25 Education for Living
Chapter 26 We Must Love Children in the Concrete Not Just the Abstract
Chapter 27 Making Education Relevant: A Micro-Society Approach
Chapter 28 Why We Need the Arts in Education
Chapter 29 Celebrate Whatís Right with Teaching and Learning
Chapter 30 The Walkabout
Chapter 31 Never Lose Sight of the Higher Purpose of Education
Chapter 32 I Was Just Wondering
Chapter 33 Afterword
Chapter 34 Appendix 1: Selected Readings
Chapter 35 Appendix 2: School Mission Statement
Chapter 36 References

This book reminds us of the importance of love, creativity, and human interaction in helping our children and families to expand and redefine the boundaries of learning. By providing a carefully considered prescription for improving our schools and communities, Connolly has done a great service to children, parents, and educators.