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When students first walk into your classroom, they’re fresh off of all sorts of distractions, from friends to phones to life. Oftentimes the last thing they want to do is sit down and learn about health science.  For the dedicated health science teacher, this can be a problem: Disinterested students are students who aren’t learning, and because you want your class time to be as productive as possible, you need to gain and keep your students’ attention as soon as they take their seats. However, engaging your students quickly can be more complicated than it seems, and to do it well, you’re going to need some strategies to hook ‘em in. 

Every health science teacher knows the struggle of teaching students who are bored and unengaged. When students feel as though they do not have agency in the learning process, they become disinterested and detached.

We’ve all seen it: the bored expressions, the glazed-over eyes, the constant peeking at phones. Even if your business education course has excellent material, it can be challenging to keep your students engaged in class. And if students aren’t engaging with the course, can it really be said they’re learning?

We speak with dozens of CTE health science instructors every week who tell us they are unsure about implementing a new digital curriculum in their classes. Very often, these teachers have had previous experiences with online software that was boring and led to students being burnt out from too much screen time. Because of this, teachers considering our digital curriculum system, HealthCenter21, frequently ask how it helps keep students engaged and interested in the material. In this article, you’ll learn five ways HealthCenter21 can help you keep students engaged:

We speak with dozens of business education teachers every week who tell us they are nervous about implementing a new digital resource in their classes.

When looking to use our HealthCenter21 curriculum in their health science high school courses, health science instructors often ask questions like: “Do you have any tips for using HealthCenter21 successfully?” and “I have limited technology access… can I still use this curriculum?”