For this reason we should not expect students to always learn in a vacuum of sorts. It is quite easy for teachers of various subject areas who teach the same students to come together and focus on topics and themes that are common to all subject areas in some fashion. This theme could range from a certain historical period and everything that surrounds it to an issue that students are facing on a daily basis. Drill and practice should be done at a minimum, with more emphasis on hands-on manipulatives. Teachers promote interest when they allow students to become physically engaged in the work that they are to learn.
Students tend to learn more when they are actively involved.
Games, simulations, role-playing, class contests, and research papers are only a number of the many examples that teachers can use to involve students actively. Needless to say, as humans we all learn differently. In a perfect world, every teacher would assess each of their student s best learning style, then plan and carry out the proper plan for that student. A realistic, and less formal, approach is to focus on strategies that cover the styles of most of the students in the class while accommodating those whose styles are somewhat extreme from the rest of the class. It also means that a teacher may have to have more than one lesson plan for that class.