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Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development presents the 2023 Torrance Festival of Ideas
BACKTRACKING APATHY: A NOVEL APPROACH TOMOTIVATION - Chris Holmes
Perplexed by students’ apparent apathy toward school – and dissatisfied with experts’ solutions – this teacher interviewed hundreds of teenagers around the country about motivation, school, and life. Here’s what he learned. Chris Holmes is a gifted education specialist from St. Louis, Missouri, but throughout his 22-year-career he’s also taught journalism, creative writing, psychology, history, literature, special education, and dropout prevention.
Session host: Michael Barger, Department of Educational Psychology, Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of Georgia
The University of Georgia
The Mary Frances Early College of Education
copyright © 2023
Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development presents the 2023 Torrance Festival of Ideas
BACKTRACKING APATHY: A NOVEL APPROACH TOMOTIVATION - Chris Holmes
Perplexed by students’ apparent apathy toward school – and dissatisfied with experts’ solutions – this teacher interviewed hundreds of teenagers around the country about motivation, school, and life. Here’s what he learned. Chris Holmes is a gifted education specialist from St. Louis, Missouri, but throughout his 22-year-career he’s also taught journalism, creative writing, psychology, history, literature, special education, and dropout prevention.
Session host: Michael Barger, Department of Educational Psychology, Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of Georgia
The University of Georgia
The Mary Frances Early College of Education
copyright © 2023
