Chapter 6 Harnessing Humor

It’s true! Humor in the classroom is beneficial. I can honestly say that my students crack me up! I use humor in the classroom spontaneously. It comes to me in that moment of teaching. They think it is even funnier when I’m the only one laughing at my jokes. Students learn from humor and I need to start using more funny ways to introduce a concept. I just have to remember to make the humor related to the concept I am trying to teach. I enjoyed that story about the second grade teacher giving the spelling test. I could relate, I taught first grade for three years and gave tons of spelling test! We should all take the advice from the chapter, which is to teach these presentation skills to our students. I plan on incorporating the camera activity into my classroom. We are working on idioms and I am going to have student act out an idiom and then take a picture of it; we are then going to transfer it onto a power-point presentation.