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Are you apathetic? Are you unmotivated? Are you bored? Good!!! Read this.
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Feeling tired, listless, apathetic, unmotivated and not interested in school? I thought as much. Well, help is on the way. Since I am a special education specialist, I have shelves of resource books all giving advice on how students can deal with boredom, but… they’re all too boring. So, I thought I’d ask the www for some advice about dealing with boredom in school and then pass it along you.Yahoo! Answers advises:
- face it school is a boring place……. just try to pay attention and dont zone out……i’m 13…… i kow these things…..(I’maFruit)
-That’s easy. Get a pice of paper out and draw your worst enimey in their underwear OR you can listen to your teacher talk about stuff that don’t make any sence to you at all.(but that’s no fun now is it)Me i like to make my owne songs.Or make my own fashion. (Starr)
-Things are only boring when you are doing something that you don’t see a value in. When you’re forced to do something that you’d rather not do. The trick is this – ONLY do things that have a purpose. I’ll tell you though, school has a GREAT purpose for you. Learning to read, do math, how to interact with people, how to get yourself to do what your boss (teacher) is asking you to do all these skills will make you a MUCH happier person as you grow. Get in there (school) and don’t allow your time to get away without you getting those skills – and getting them BETTER than anyone else! You are getting FOR FREE what people in other places have to pay a forune for. Take full advantage of it!!! Then go out into the world when you get older and take over!!! But only if you’ve picked up the needed skills…..(teran_realtor)
If you actually listen to what the teacher is talking about, and you participate and raise your hand with answers, you will become more interested what you are learning. I get really bored in my geograpyh and history classes, but I try to participate and enjoy what I’m learning. We go to school to get an education, so that when we are older we will be smart and have a good job.
You don’t want to be working at Burger King when your 45 do you? That’s why we go to school, so we can be able to get a job when we are older that pays a lot of money. (Joseph)
You know what, I think I’m going to ask my students to share their strategies for dealing with boredom at school. That can be their blog entry for this week.
PS. I just reread the suggestions above, and I think there’s advice in there for me too-although I can’t draw.
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