Why is school boring

For my students, it can be. So what are some ways that I, as an educator, can make my classes dynamic and interesting, while not sacrificing the integrity of my lessons? As I was researching this topic, there were several things that popped up in the management arena.

Things like an over-reliance on lecturing, too much stationary work, and a lack of student interaction are all things that can lead to student boredom.

Lectures are fun for some students, but frustrating for others. Student interaction can lead to more buy-in, and being able to move can help some students who might be a little twitchy. I try to spice up my lectures with lots of movement, discussion, and other things to get students more invested in what we're talking about. For example, when teaching Lord of the Flies, my students do the "Kill the Pig" dance. This shows the mob mentality that the boys succumb to. This activity not only puts my students in the space of those characters but also makes them get up and move a little bit.

This keeps them engaged in what we're doing. There is an attitude that only reason to learn things in schools these days is to pass the standardized tests, and a lot of people fall into this trap. The tests are important, and so we adjust our teaching accordingly.

This makes school boring for many students. It can mean that the only incentive to do well in school is to take the test, so anything else is useless. If students don't care about the test, why would they care about school in general? For many of them, they don't care. This cuts down student incentives to learn, making it boring. With the increasing focus on standardized testing, teachers are being boxed into teaching towards the test. This is not new information.

We have all seen this in a variety of ways. We are not being allowed to teach the way that we like to teach if we are training our students to take a test. When we are bored, our students are going to be bored. Try as I can, I cannot get excited about teaching my students how to take tests. Besides, if students and teachers weren't continually trying to find words to describe the entirety of the human condition, class would be so boooooring.

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