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I don’t know if you’ve ever had that moment at the start of a course when you tell students there are going to be teams. With roles.
The shoulder slumps, the eye-rolls, the sighs.
But I created just the opposite in a recent experience, where I transformed an “I don’t like to talk to people” into “I’d like to try those teams.” Here’s what happened.
I’m trying to get an extracurricular math course running at a local high school, but I’m new there and have to generate buy-in with individual students to get them to enroll. One student came to talk to me about the course (let’s call them J), but only out of obligation because they’d told the principal they’d check it out.
After making our introductions, I start telling J about the course, working to get their buy-in. I explain that the course will help them master math, that it has an individualized math tool, and that we work together in teams during the class.
“I don’t really like to talk to people,” J tells me....
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