Chapter #6 Motivation and Boredom

This chapter talks about what motivates students and how to keep them interested in the classroom. It seems that the co-authors agreed that a passionate teacher that appreciates them motivates them. Keeping students motivated is the key to avoiding boredom. Real world applications, collaborative learning, and purposeful homework are some things that can keep students motivated and away from boredom.

The section where it talks about "making learning a social thing" connects to things that I have learned so far from being at Mt. Blue High School. Collaborative learning allows students to work in groups, but gives everyone in the group a job so that everyone is doing work. While in the classroom I learned that it can be very difficult to use collaborative learning. The class that did this got extremely off task. My mentor teacher said that that group of students learn better when they have desk work, but it is also nice to give them the opportunity to work together (even if it does not work that well).