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Award-winning science teacher makes students feel valued
Madeleine Collins, this year’s winner of the Prime Minister’s Science Teacher Prize, says her approach to teaching is guided by two things: making sure each student feels valued, and engaging their natural curiosity so they want to learn the science behind their observations and interests.