[Herunterladen] 58 Humor In The Classroom Considerations And Strategies
Here are a few reasons why you need to bring humor into your classroom.
Humor in the classroom considerations and strategies. Concerns about humor use. 5 reasons to bring laughter into the classroom. Humor in the classroom. Having students contribute jokes and look for jokes that may take some thinking to find the humor is a great way to build classroom culture and build the habit of finding humor. November 13 2017 alissa klein and christian moriarty first we want everyone reading this to go ahead and lower their expectations. Using humor in the classroom. Write an essay of 1 2 pages that describes the strategies of using humor jokes laughing at your own mistakes cartoons telling a funny story and letting your students lead the way.
While the two of us are big fans of comedy and using humor in many walks of life we aren t terribly funny ourselves. A simple routine like posting a joke of the day or joke of the week instantly brings humor into the classroom. You re funnier than you think. Researchers agree that children who laugh in the classroom develop strong communication and critical thinking skills become more creative and easily cope with stress. When children laugh together in group settings they build a sense of team comradery creating a strong bond with their classmates and teachers. Traditional subject matter and lessons were supposed to keep students inter ested wandersee 1982. Humor in the classroom is a twentieth century phenomenon.
Laughter brings joy and when students are smiling and laughing then they are engaged. Shared laughter is a powerful way to reinforce learning and it helps to make tasks less laborious and threatening. Some of that thinking still lingers today. Only no hurt humor is acceptable. If you struggle with getting and keeping your students attention then you need to add a little humor into your lessons. Even if you are what ed calls humor challenged there are things you can do to lighten the load and dissipate the clouds in your classroom. Humor in the classroom.
Writing about the history of humor in the classroom debra korobkin notes that before the 20 th century collectively teachers perceived instructing with a sense of humor as unprofessional uncontrolled and undignified p. As soon as you do you ll instantly become more likeable. Laugh at yourself when you do something silly or wrong mention it and laugh at it. And personal humor growth and integration with instruction are discussed. Just remember above all that sarcasm has no place in the school. In effective teaching strategies. Engaging in spontaneous and planned humor.
To entertain was not to educate.