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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