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How an Educator Leverages Diverse Experiences to Motivate Learners edCircuit
Rachelle Dene Poth is an educator, attorney, consultant, and author who is concentrated on making a difference throughout the education space. Poth, who recently received the Making IT Happen Award from ISTE and the Presidential Gold Award for volunteer service, will be a featured speaker at the 2020 Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC 2020), this coming January in Miami. Poth has taken her diverse array of professional experiences into the classroom to motivate 8th grade students to engage in their learning, even when it takes them a little time to discover the relevance. In terms of motivation, she explains, "I ask 8th graders to be receptive to ideas. It's not just'I want you just to do this because I say you have to do this.' It's, 'I want you to do this as a start to see what other interests stir in you.'"