The Future of Education

Students in today's classrooms are experiencing a significant amount of innovative change in the school curriculum. However, despite the innovative changes to curriculum, students continue to become unmotivated to learn and unsuccessful in the attainment of their learning goals. This paper and research seeks to offer a motivational alternative for learning in an innovative and everchanging world.  Through the pedagogy of enthusiasm, teachers are trained to utilize best practices from the disciplines of theater and psychology to enhance their instructional skills and supplement innovation with motivation. Elevating humor and acting skills in the classroom proves to have a positive impact on both creativity awareness and the motivation to learn and innovate. Through narrative inquiry and experimental research methodology, beginning teachers were studied over the course of a semester to see if the pedagogy of enthusiasm made a significant difference in the learning of their students. As a result, it was discovered that the developed skills of humor and acting played a significant role in the increase of student motivation to learn and contribute to their school community.