Chapter 6: Motivation and Boredom

Curriculum can engage students and help motivate them to learn when it is combined with how a teacher conducts the class and responds to students. Making sure students understand the material and allowing them to learn socially is important to motivating them.

Personally, I feel the number 1 reason students don’t try hard on a project is because they are not motivated. I think that is the hardest part of a teacher’s job. It is easy to sipt out information that the teacher learned themselves way back. But to truly teach students is to discover the ways to motivate and engage them. I don’t feel like many teachers can successfully do this. I will take into consideration and think about a couple ways this chapter suggested to help. Socializing with classmates on a project can really helps students learn as a group. Understanding the material is very important too, if a student has no idea what they are learning about, a light switch shuts off, even if the student doesn’t want it too. They feel so lost that they can’t keep up with the teacher and give up. I know this feel from my own experience.