Humour project

In the everyday educational process, teachers meet very often the lack of students’ motivation and bad concentration in the classroom. Students are not fully engaged due to uninteresting lessons and too many facts and information to learn and memorize.

Based on the article “School is So Boring: High-Stakes Testing and Boredom at an Urban Middle School”, boredom may influence students’ behaviour and disposition in the classroom. More recent research finds that a boring school experience leads some students to cut classes (Fallis & Opotow 2003) and exacerbates students’ risk of dropping out of high school (Dow, 2007). A study on the state of learning at an urban school suggests that some students fail at their attempts to be “good students” and become academically disengaged because they rejected frequent “boring and meaningless” classroom activities at their school (Rubin, 2007). https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ957120.pdf

Teachers have a big challenge to fight students’ boredom in the classroom caused by mentioned problems. Despite the teachers’ multifunctional skills and knowledge, many of them lack abilities to motivate students and still use old-fashioned methods of teaching. They have a fear of changes in teaching and those who are willing to do some innovations in the class usually have difficulties in finding information sources with good practices.