57 Humor In Teaching

[Download] For years teachers have tried ways of bringing humor into the classroom to keep kids engaged and mary kay morrison past president of the association of applied and therapeutic humor and author of the book using humor to maximize learning says brain research shows that it s a good idea. Humor keeps students on their. The culture of your institution the topic of your course and a host of other factors affect the utility of humor as a teaching tool.

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Humor in teaching. Paul mcghee s developmental stages of humor to understand the humor stage for the children that you work with each day. When humor is used in education this helps to streamline and strengthen teaching and learning. Lighten up and laugh. Instead of punishing the student who is always trying to make their classmates laugh when they. Children of different ages find different things funny. Here s how three teachers on nea today facebook use humor to bring content to life. Showing your students that you re a person too.

Humor strategies to use laugh at yourself when you do something silly or wrong mention it and laugh at it. Keep a quotable quotes bulletin board or corner in your room. Though we argue humor can be useful in places or for topics you might not imagine do what works for you and what is appropriate for your classes. Humor in the classroom and laughter in the classroom are two things that i find to be very important when i teach. Humor improves teaching and learning 1. Teachers don t have to always be on it s ok to laugh. Obviously there are many characteristics that make a great teacher.

Use humor to enhance classroom joy use humor to develop a sense of community use content related humor use age appropriate humor sandwich humor between instruction and repetition. Keeping your students engaged. Humor can effectively be used in the classroom as a teaching tool to promote positive learning. Don t forget to keep in mind dr. Likewise it also helps to solve psychological and emotional disorders as it works as a form of group therapy. Students respond to their teacher s playfulness and appreciate the effort he or she puts into making a lesson fun. If you make a mistake or a lesson.

I believe that two key ones are flexibility and a sense of humor. Teachers can use humor to bring content to life through games parody or comical voices or wigs or hats. We aren t all funny all the time. Just recently award winning humorist linda edgecombe spoke at a federation conference. This in turn favors a motivating and enjoyable experience that helps to create educational projects that are really meaningful. Add humorous items to tests homework or class assignments even at the university one of my favorite options when i. Sometimes the teacher seems so much like the wise distant person.

When students are laughing they are paying attention.