Humor In Teaching

Lighten up and laugh.

Humor in teaching. Showing your students that you re a person too. Keep a quotable quotes bulletin board or corner in your room. Humor improves teaching and learning 1. Just recently award winning humorist linda edgecombe spoke at a federation conference.

Obviously there are many characteristics that make a great teacher. 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. Paul mcghee s developmental stages of humor to understand the humor stage for the children that you work with each day. Humor keeps students on their.

This in turn favors a motivating and enjoyable experience that helps to create educational projects that are really meaningful. 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. Children of different ages find different things funny.

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. 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. Don t forget to keep in mind dr.

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. Teaching strategies for using humor utilize the class clown. When humor is used in education this helps to streamline and strengthen teaching and learning.

Humor in the classroom and laughter in the classroom are two things that i find to be very important when i teach. Students respond to their teacher s playfulness and appreciate the effort he or she puts into making a lesson fun. 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.

When students are laughing they are paying attention. Humor strategies to use laugh at yourself when you do something silly or wrong mention it and laugh at it. If you make a mistake or a lesson. Keeping your students engaged.

Add humorous items to tests homework or class assignments even at the university one of my favorite options when i.