Comments on: The "How-To" versus the "Why-Bother" http://blog.scottjelias.net/2007/12/the_how-to_versus_the_why-bother/ with your host, Scott Elias Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:20:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Scott Elias http://blog.scottjelias.net/2007/12/the_how-to_versus_the_why-bother/comment-page-1/#comment-336 Scott Elias Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:01:46 +0000 http://blog.scottjelias.net/2007/12/the_how-to_versus_the_why-bother.html#comment-336 <p>I had a similar conversation with one of our new teachers this year. She was feeling a little bit "blah" about her career choice and asked what I suggested. I told her to find her Thing. The Thing that would make her get out of bed in the morning. And figure out how to work it into her teaching.</p> <p>If you're having fun, it doesn't feel so much like work.</p> I had a similar conversation with one of our new teachers this year. She was feeling a little bit “blah” about her career choice and asked what I suggested. I told her to find her Thing. The Thing that would make her get out of bed in the morning. And figure out how to work it into her teaching.

If you’re having fun, it doesn’t feel so much like work.

]]> By: Curtis Webster http://blog.scottjelias.net/2007/12/the_how-to_versus_the_why-bother/comment-page-1/#comment-337 Curtis Webster Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:48:46 +0000 http://blog.scottjelias.net/2007/12/the_how-to_versus_the_why-bother.html#comment-337 <p>I'd like to expand the point you made, "If you enjoy creating your slides (I do!), you’ll enjoy presenting them." It struck me as I contemplated this blog that enjoying it might be the key to really powerful teaching. The sentiment could be rephrased as, "If you want your students to enjoy learning, you'd better find a way to enjoy teaching."</p> I’d like to expand the point you made, “If you enjoy creating your slides (I do!), you’ll enjoy presenting them.” It struck me as I contemplated this blog that enjoying it might be the key to really powerful teaching. The sentiment could be rephrased as, “If you want your students to enjoy learning, you’d better find a way to enjoy teaching.”

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