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Hancock High School teacher Matt Griffith teaches 10th grade World History, using a unique teaching method implementing modern music and required silliness as an everyday part of his class.
Griffith says these methods help students to retain the information that they are learning.
“The more fun we have in class, the more the students retain the information. When I first started nine years ago, I just had students get up nice and slow, went up to the board, and it’s kind of morphed into what you see today—goofing around, having some fun, but all of it is pointed towards making sure that students get those countries down. At the end of each year that they’ve had me, they will know every country in the world. We hit all the grade level content from the state, but then we go above and beyond when it comes to mapping and higher level thinking.”
Griffith applies his unconventional teaching style to other subjects and activities as well. The teacher says that in addition to naming all of the countries in the world, by the school year’s end, his students will also be able to name all U.S Presidents
