Thinking about learning

 How do you make lessons more interesting? Doing worksheet after worksheet can be tedious and that is what most teachers do, in all subjects.We must find a way to get student more engage and involved ibn their learning. Science and History got the luxury to take students on trips.Out of classroom learning experiences.is something students remeber when they leave school. Visting Rainbows End to experience Physics G forces and acceleration, visit the Zoo to learn about biodiversity, scuba dive in Goat Island to learn more about marine life or going on a Hikoi to learn about local histories and walk up Mt Wellington .In maths we never go on a trip! No wonder it is boring. We have to find trips to send students on Science are doing hands one activities . Doing experiments where thing explode and launching rockets is engaging and real world.  In Art students draw and create artwork In usic student play on pianos, quitars and drums. In maths we do worksheets. Using real life example...

 Making lessons interesting and engaging This year i am going going to make an effort to make my lessons more interesting and engaging. How-many times did students said, I HATE MATHS  or  THIS IS BORING. I agree with the students . For years I have tolerate boring lessons and long speeches . The magc of Mathematics it makes you think. Some of the problems are difficult - it is- to make you think  Some of the work is not relevent to real life {not now anyway}and you are never going to use it in real; life and yes, it is not as creative as music and art. Thinking is the hardest work-- therefore so few people are doing it. And Yes, Plantations and TiK TOK is more intersting than doing boring sums. We compete daily for students attention, Getting their attention and keeping it. That is the real challenge.