25+ Humor In Teaching

Students respond to their teacher s playfulness and appreciate the effort he or she puts into making a lesson fun.

Humor in teaching. Children of different ages find different things funny. 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. 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. Humor can effectively be used in the classroom as a teaching tool to promote positive learning. Teachers don t have to always be on it s ok to laugh. Teachers can use humor to bring content to life through games parody or comical voices or wigs or hats. Paul mcghee s developmental stages of humor to understand the humor stage for the children that you work with each day.

Lighten up and laugh. Instead of punishing the student who is always trying to make their classmates laugh when they. Humor strategies to use laugh at yourself when you do something silly or wrong mention it and laugh at it. I believe that two key ones are flexibility and a sense of humor. Teaching strategies for using humor utilize the class clown. If you make a mistake or a lesson. Humor improves teaching and learning 1.

Humor keeps students on their. Obviously there are many characteristics that make a great teacher. Humor in the classroom and laughter in the classroom are two things that i find to be very important when i teach. This in turn favors a motivating and enjoyable experience that helps to create educational projects that are really meaningful. We aren t all funny all the time. Keeping your students engaged. 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.

Here s how three teachers on nea today facebook use humor to bring content to life. Just recently award winning humorist linda edgecombe spoke at a federation conference. 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. Likewise it also helps to solve psychological and emotional disorders as it works as a form of group therapy. When humor is used in education this helps to streamline and strengthen teaching and learning. Sometimes the teacher seems so much like the wise distant person. Don t forget to keep in mind dr.

When students are laughing they are paying attention.