Chapter 6: Motivation and Boredom

Motivation is a hard thing to do when dealing with a classroom filled with twenty or so hormonal teenagers. The last thing most of them want to do it listen to lecture and take notes for an entire period, and to be honest, neither do I! We need to be able to connect things with the real world, like page 105 talks about. This should be easy for my major because when dealing with history it is easy to show how we got to where we are as humans now by looking at the past. Currant issues are so important for students to know and understand even if it is something comical like a TV show the class should cover stuff that is going on today and then lead it into what the subject is covering and how closely they may or may not relate. Having students choose what they do their project on but using the teachers guide lines might make it more enjoyable for students and more worth while for everyone, this would throw a little twist on each project to make them individual and tie the past with the young future.