[DOWNLOAD] "Creating Student Engagement? HMM: Teaching and Learning with Humor, Music, And Movement (Report)" by Creative Education # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Creating Student Engagement? HMM: Teaching and Learning with Humor, Music, And Movement (Report)
- Author : Creative Education
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 196 KB
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I'm going to begin with a joke so we can get the humor out of the way. Although that may have been a joke (you can check to see if you were amused), the perspective that I will advocate here is that humor is not about telling jokes and not essentially about getting laughs. Humor is fundamentally about a mood of lightness that facilitates learning. In virtually any learning environment, students enter with some level of tension, anxiety, and/or resistance. If the stress response is activated, it can decrease the brain's capabilities to learn and remember (Kaufeldt, 2010). An atmosphere of humor helps to dissipate negative emotions that can impede learning. So lighten up. You have arrived at a place in life where you have the luxury of reading an article about creative education. Relax and consider how the ideas and suggestions that follow may enhance your students' engagement and perhaps enliven your own teaching experiences. A Somatic Perspective