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What are your tips for making boring classes more entertaining?
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wet your pants and make a big ordeal out of it–not only will it disrupt class, but everyone will be laughing too

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20 Comments for 'What are your tips for making boring classes more entertaining?'

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    elhombrevasco
    July 3, 2009 | 7:18 pm
     

    Daydream
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    Gary W
    July 3, 2009 | 7:44 pm
     

    MP3 player
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    Junipero Suribachi
    July 3, 2009 | 8:06 pm
     

    Spit wads come to mind . . .
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    nikkecola17
    July 3, 2009 | 8:47 pm
     

    get brightly colored supplies and take good notes
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    macho_bob
    July 3, 2009 | 9:29 pm
     

    Ask questions. The dullest of courses come to life when you focus the class on something that interests you.
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    goatsrcool
    July 3, 2009 | 10:05 pm
     

    wet your pants and make a big ordeal out of it–not only will it disrupt class, but everyone will be laughing too
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    Cyclone Ranger ♂
    July 3, 2009 | 10:54 pm
     

    it depends on the age of the students.
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    miley
    July 3, 2009 | 11:40 pm
     

    participate in discussions and become interested in what is being taught.
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    Brooke
    July 4, 2009 | 12:23 am
     

    I really can’t think of an educational way, but I was definitely good at making classes more entertaining. I would get my friends, started on picking out the hottest guys in the class, then we’d go on to the girls. Then we would pair everyone in the room with someone, and make couples. It’s actually pretty fun. That always worked for me.
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    goinggonegood
    July 4, 2009 | 12:42 am
     

    Try and open your mind and learn about it anyway….. while doodling on paper.
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    brandon p
    July 4, 2009 | 1:10 am
     

    sleep
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    Ruth
    July 4, 2009 | 1:16 am
     

    text your friends, listen to ipod, draw, daydream, decorate your notebook with pretty drawings, secretly take pix of ppl with ur phone, make sleepy faces so that the teacher gets the hint, go to the restroom for looong periods of time just fixing my hair, lol i get bored a lot in class! so these help! but try to do it in the classes where you already know the material so theres no need to pay attention :)
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    mztexasxoxo
    July 4, 2009 | 2:01 am
     

    free food, music, the great outdoors. depends on what grade level though. lil kindergarteners might like puppets. high schoolers may go with a fun project in groups
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    shayy
    July 4, 2009 | 2:07 am
     

    texting. teachers or profsorrs don’t care these days. i just chat w/ some friends. you can chat w/ me for free cuz I have verizon 18584928002
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    huckleberry
    July 4, 2009 | 2:34 am
     

    Are you asking from the student’s point of view or the teacher’s?

    Teacher’s should include some humor in classes to keep kids engaged in the topic.

    From a student’s point of view, I have no idea how to make a class more entertaining. Perhaps, as one responder suggested, asking questions might help.
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    carmandnee
    July 4, 2009 | 3:19 am
     

    From a student’s perspective, I would say, take notes. Use different color pens to make particularly important information stand out…and the doodles in the margins more imaginative.

    From a teacher’s perspective, I must say, take notes. Listen to the lecture and try to understand what is going on. If you are bored because your are lost, ask questions. Trust me, if the teacher notices that the class is bored, it becomes seriously difficult to liven the class up. If the students are asking related questions, the interest the students are showing in the subject matter is infectious and the teacher is inclined to explain topics in a much more entertaining manner.
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    TEACHING GODDESS
    July 4, 2009 | 3:38 am
     

    I think your attitude is very disrespectful to a teacher. I’ll give you an example. I was recently informed by one of my students that if I didn’t "play games" and "entertain" her, that she wouldn’t learn. Not COULD NOT; WOULD NOT. Your attitude speaks volumes to a teacher–and we are NOT here to be your entertainment committee; we are here to teach you the material we are contracted to teach. IF, along the way, I can do it in a humorous way that you’ll remember, great. If not, if the subject matter is "dry"–well, you’ll just have to suck it up and learn it anyway. One thing I will say (I at least don’t have a problem with it)–sometimes my students suggest games they have developed. If that’s the case and I like the game, I’ll useit in class. However, ‘making it entertaining" is certainly not my or any other teacher’s job–and sometimes students find themselves taking a trip to the office if their "entertainment" interferes with MY ability to teach the class.
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    lili860426
    July 4, 2009 | 4:09 am
     

    This will probably make me sound like a dork, but I really hated physics (it was at 8 in the morning and I had the most boring professor in the world!), so normally I had my calculator with me. So, sometimes I would have a song in my head and I would type the words out on my calculator. You could probably do the same thing by writing it out on a piece of paper, but this kept me more entertained!
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    Redfalcongirl
    July 4, 2009 | 4:45 am
     

    Well it depends if you are a teacher or not. If you’re a teacher, i like it better when my teachers talk and interact more to the class because it makes me want to pay attention more rather than to daydream or secretly pull out my ipod.
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    A High School white girl.

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    sumo_fly
    July 4, 2009 | 5:05 am
     

    question how the class(es) you find boring relate to the classes you find entertaining. for example how does Math classes relate to Art classes? How does Math classes relate to English classes? how about science classes to social studies and history classes? I used to try to understand how math related to my art history class, as Art history uses many myths as its subject matter. there has to be some importance in what your learning, why it is important? how did it come to be important? Don’t rely on the teachers answer because many of them are teaching the subject because they have to not because they want to(sounds familiar: why do we have to learn this, I don’t want to). Few teachers may actually like teaching boring subjects, and fewer yet make connections with any other subjects to develop an larger understand of education as a whole.
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