BRINGING ‘CREATIVITY BACK TO THE CLASSROOM’

By Katrina Dix, FREE LANCE–STAR

Watching over her students, Spotsylvania High School history teacher Cathy LaRocco said that relinquishing control of a lesson can be a challenge. But in the high school’s new International Baccalaureate program, it’s necessary. “You can’t teach it like a traditional class, per se,” she said. “They need to be doing more inquiry on their own, more discovery, more coming to their own conclusions of things. Student ownership of learning is at the heart of IB, LaRocco said.

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