Think People & Passion rather than Classes & Content

This chapter spoke a lot to me. I find it interesting that it takes a book to stress the importance of learning more about your students as individuals, rather than as a classroom. I suppose it would be easy to get in a rut of teaching the planned curriculum and never breaking out of the box but I just don't see myself taking that route. Maybe it's because I'm wanting to teach Agriculture, a topic that I'm so passionate about and has given me so much in my life. Or maybe it's because I'm wanting to inspire kids the way my Ag. teacher did. I used to look forward to Ag. class, I couldn't wait for the school year to get started because that meant I'd get to start judging. I was fortunate to have two really great Ag. teachers, both with polar opposite teaching methods but both equally inspiring. They both knew how to help me find out what I was passionate about and what I wanted to do when I "grew up" and that meant a lot to me, it still does today. I just hope I can do the same for the kids that I will have the good fortune to be teaching.