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            The Passion Project intersects with the writing assignment: Rule of Three by the absolute idea of the importance of a passionate teacher and how much that can effect a student’s ability of learning.   In the case of being disobedient in a classroom setting, it should be highly effective towards a teacher who lacks passion when it comes to teaching.  They both connect, for on the writing assignment: Rule of Three, I created an argument that, we as students should be attentive to disobedient acts towards teacher’s who are not passionate in a classroom environment and in The Passion Project, students argues that teachers need to have passion in their vocabulary while teaching, for they need to show interest in education and in the students to show the importance of a students’ success.  Teacher’s doesn’t understand that they are extremely influential towards our education, so if they aren’t passionate about teaching us how are we as students suppose to do the same when it comes to learning?  Teacher’s are the models of education and are the reasons to why education is valuable, but with a passive teacher, students will have that same attitude towards learning. An in-passionate teacher can lead to a disinterested student, so it is a teacher’s job to make learning interesting and somewhat relevant to a students’ life.  For instance in the article ‘Passionate Teachers Create Passionate Students’, by Mary G. Powell, Powell states that the  “two major keys to getting students excited about their own learning are to give them involvement in their learning and to present information in a way that is relevant to their lives today” (54).  This shows that allowing for a student to get involved with their learning like having group projects, allows them to create their own ideas and presenting it to class creates a different approach on learning, which may be more efficient for the students who learns by being interactive with their work.  And making the material more relative to their lives will allow students to be more engaged with what they learn in class.  When it comes to education, students need a teacher to explain to them the entire purpose of learning and to remind us constantly on why exactly we are in school, vice versa.  Rather than simply teaching us the material word from word, through lectures and PowerPoints’ and being the main focus of the class, the teacher should connect with the class by being apart of the circle.  With that in mind, Powell states, “I am giving little or no satisfaction in the learning itself to the student…I am telling my students, ‘Learn this because I said so’” (53).  This statement, which is from a teacher’s perspective, shows that simply telling students to learn something because a teacher is telling them to, without any knowledge of why exactly they are learning something will disengage a student from connecting to the material or even get a better understanding of what they are learning.  Ultimately, teachers needs to take the initiative to be more passionate about teaching and understand their entire purpose when it comes to the incoming generation of students and remember why exactly they chose that career in the first place.  Teachers are the building foundations of a students success in life, so with a lack of a strong foundation, student’s will be prone to failure.

Powell, Mary G. "Passionate Teachers Create Passionate Students." The Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin n.d.: 52-54. Print.