Originally Posted by
Organs
I'm in 10th grade and I hate this years history class. My teacher this year is a completely biased feminist, knows nothing about how to teach probably and doesn't know how to use her inside voice or how to deal with students. She just tells us to work on a google doc from some half-assed questions she got from the internet.
Last year I loved history. Our teacher read out segments from mein kampf to us, he would tell us why things happened and what effect they had (such as Germany invading poland). He would just generally be really involved in the lesson.
So basically, the level of interest I have is based on how involved the teacher is with the lesson. It could be the same with you, so your teacher may or may not be very good.
That's just the general mechanics of teaching, though.
The topic of this thread is not 'how to teach well', it is 'how to make history class more interesting'.
As most of you have pointed out, you can teach it better, but you can't make the topic 'more interesting' in se. That depends on you, how much you are interested in history. You can take some exclusive, exciting things out of the collection 'history', and teach that, but the collection 'history' can not be changed in se.