Tapping Into Curiosity to Engage Teens in Challenging Content
22Using topics students care deeply about in an AP Statistics course can leverage their natural interest to encourage them to develop new skills and content knowledge.
One of the tenets of The Greene School in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, is to make learning meaningful and relevant for their students. So while teachers certainly take state standards and content requirements into account, they also get to know their students well, in order to capture their curiosity as a means to develop knowledge and skills.
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