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How do you CONNECT your

passion to teaching?

Madison City Schools' teachers sound out about how they CONNECT

and what CONNECTING means to them. 

How do you define passion?

CONTENT

Content passion is easily defined...it is the thing you know the best and feel the strongest about.

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PROFESSIONAL

Professional passion is defined more broadly but is no less important to your effectiveness in teaching. It answers the question: Why did you become a teacher in the first place? What drives you to continue past all the hardships and come back year after year? 

PERSONAL

Personal passion transcends subject matter and teaching as a profession altogether. A personal passion is what drives one to want to make some kind of difference in the world and to the people in it. 

Dave Burgess defines passion in the above ways. He believes it is the passion in whatever you do that makes people sit up and take notice, even to the degree of listening intently about something we actually care nothing about.

What is your passion?

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To teach with passion, our life must be grounded in passion. Individual passions are the axis around which the spokes of the rest of our life turns. - Joan Wink

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For some of us, our passion IS our content.

Keep that passion alive OUTSIDE the

classroom as well. Theatre teachers Clint Merritt and Amy Patel perform in Rabbit Hole with Theatre Huntsville. 

Mason Overcash shares his passion for art by painting portraits of family, friends and colleagues.

Mrs. Simons has a passion for dressing for the occasion and showing school spirit!

How do you infuse passion into your teaching?

Peggy Boynton was granted a Fund for Teachers fellowship to travel to Austria and further her passion for the German language and culture.

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