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Improving Teachers Teaching The Way Students Learn Best

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In two high schools, a research was done to see how to promote teachers teaching the way students learn best. This research was done over a five-year span as a class elective with hand picked students to participate with consent from parents. The two high schools were named Woodson and Northside. Each of these schools has unique aspects that the other school doesn’t have. Even though the differences were presented, the results were almost the same. The main problem of this research study was to see what schools needed to do in order to increase motivation and engagement in the classroom. The research was conducted to make the students take charge and be able to make a change in their school. With this class being an elective and an extracurricular activity it increased the power that was given to the students. Many students throughout this article felt that this class gave them a voice and they were able to make a change in their school. At Woodson, the culture of the students consisted of 70 percent of Latinos. This high school was mid-sized and was placed in a Latino community. Northside had 50 percent Chinese students, and 15 percent white students. Northside was a very large high school with just over 2500 students. To be able to attend Northside students needed to apply and go through the application process in order to accepted to attend the school. Both of these schools had an elective class that was titled YPAR, Youth-led Participating Action Research. At both

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