Saturday, January 18, 2014

Getting to Know Those Hard-to-reach Kids

You win when you get to know your students and what they feel is important. Heidi A. Olinger, author of this article offers quite a few ideas to help you 'get inside their heads.'  The payoff is increased cooperation and engagement in classwork which didn't seem relevant to their lives.  She gives a creative example of force in physics making the analagy of a young girl's Crush on another boy.  Read further for those details.  (Hard to come up with a more relevant analogy.)

To Help Students Learn, Appeal to What They Value.  Heidi A. Olinger.  1.15.14.  edutopia
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/appeal-to-what-students-value-heidi-olinger

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