This is Boring

Two Hundred Twenty Fifth Post: This is Boring

In high school you often hear students yelling out: “This is boring.” or “You can’t teach.” And as a student in class you think the same thing: “Why are we learning this? Were never going to use it.” Well the truth is you can use everything you learn in everyday life and the more you learn the better. But what was that? The teacher can’t teach?

Try making a VTM (video training module) and you will learn just how challenging it can be to teacher. And that is just performing the lecturing part. Handling students would be another problem in itself. But putting together a lecture you learn that speaking ability, knowing what material to cover and when to introduce it, covering the material in logical steps, and keeping it interesting are all very challenging. Showing that you can do all those things will determine if the point of the lesson was learned by the viewer.

So how can you quiet a student that complains that class is boring? Give them a speaking assignment, or even better, use modern technology and have them make a VTM. The teacher could probably wait to the student entered college and found out that the lectures require more attention and the learning is done more by the student themselves. But it would probably be better to learn it the easy way than the later.

But until you try to put together a VTM and see the art form behind it... May the Creative Force be with You