If using the right tools, Calvin has the potential to learn wherever and whatever. However, these tools can only be applied if we understand what makes him tick. To understand why Calvin is interested when and in what context he is, we have to look at his contextual interest. More often than not, we can observe Calvin actively learning in non-academic settings more-so than academic settings. In fact, it seems like he's almost adverse to developing Individual Interest from Situational Interest if he's not the one facilitating his learning.

These patterns of Calvin's individual interest in subjects seem misdirected. He challenges Ms. Wormwood to address his questions, to which she doesn't humor. Instead, she flips it back onto him, suggesting that it he should put energy into doing the work. While she needs to address that he isn't interested in the right thing, she isn't getting to the root of his problem. His individual interest is focused to something outside of his schoolwork, and so she needs to use his fixation on getting out of work to help him do work.