Bored! Eight Ideas About Bored Students and Boring Teachers - Teacher in a Strange Land... - 0 views
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Boredom is merely lack of engagement, a two-way street in terms of responsibility. Are there boring classrooms? Yes. There are boring drills, boring lectures, boring warm-ups--and any number of boring instructional strategies (i.e., worked examples in mathematics) that yield some learning benefits. Daily practice of musical scales isn't much fun, but it's an enormously effective technique-builder. Brushing your teeth is boring, too, but that doesn't mean you should stop.
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This is an important article for teachers to share. Yes our lessons should be novel and arouse curiosity most of the time but engagement is a two way street. I somtimes have cooperative learning activities like "fan and pick" and I had a student recently say "this is boring" This is a highly engaging activity but he admitted later he just wanted to sleep.
