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[78] Humor In Teaching Herunterladen. Lighten up and laugh. Obviously there are many characteristics that make a great teacher. Here s how three teachers on nea today facebook use humor to bring content to life.

Instead of punishing the student who is always trying to make their classmates laugh when they. Keep a quotable quotes bulletin board or corner in your room. I believe that two key ones are flexibility and a sense of humor.

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. Likewise it also helps to solve psychological and emotional disorders as it works as a form of group therapy. Paul mcghee s developmental stages of humor to understand the humor stage for the children that you work with each day.

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. We aren t all funny all the time. Students respond to their teacher s playfulness and appreciate the effort he or she puts into making a lesson fun.

When students are laughing they are paying attention. Add humorous items to tests homework or class assignments even at the university one of my favorite options when i. 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.

Teachers don t have to always be on it s ok to laugh. Showing your students that you re a person too. Just recently award winning humorist linda edgecombe spoke at a federation conference.

Humor in the classroom and laughter in the classroom are two things that i find to be very important when i teach. Teaching strategies for using humor utilize the class clown. Humor can effectively be used in the classroom as a teaching tool to promote positive learning.

When humor is used in education this helps to streamline and strengthen teaching and learning. If you make a mistake or a lesson. Humor strategies to use laugh at yourself when you do something silly or wrong mention it and laugh at it.

Teachers can use humor to bring content to life through games parody or comical voices or wigs or hats. Children of different ages find different things funny. Humor keeps students on their.

This in turn favors a motivating and enjoyable experience that helps to create educational projects that are really meaningful. Humor improves teaching and learning 1.