A guide to accompany The Courage to Teach is available. A Guide for Reflection and Renewal offers a set of questions to promote engagement with Palmer's ideas. For the adjunct working alone, the material would be an excellent source of journal self-assignments. I always thought that passion made a teacher great because it brought contagious energy into the classroom, but now I realize its deeper function. Passion for the subject propels the subject, not the teacher, into the center of the learning circle and when a great thing is in their midst, students have direct access to the energy of learning and of life.
Many teachers have days when they come out of the classroom more energized than when they went in.