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(More customer reviews)I just had the good fortune of meeting author, Mary Kay Morrison, at a professional humor conference. She has written a seminal book for practicing educators on how to bring humor into your classroom in positive, productive ways. Mary Kay is an educator "from the trenches" so she knows first hand the importance and effectiveness of humor with learning. This book is filled with all sorts of gems - wonderful quotes, related research, and absolutely great on-the-job practical suggestions.At the closing of each chapter there are suggestions for inter-active school improvement activities. How about a year long professional development/building improvement goal to maximize learning through the use of humor? This book lays it all out. If you are an educator, be it administrator, teacher, or para-professional, I highly suggest this book. And, if you are a parent, or anyone who cares about and is interested in how people learn, gift this book to the people who can influence students to become what we all should strive for - being life- long learners. Highly recommended!
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What is humor exactly? How do you use it to maximize learning? If it is so important, why is it rarely mentioned in teacher preparation without some clues for finding and using it? The purpose of this book is to affirm, sustain, and encourage educators in the practice of humor not only as a personal tool to optimize a healthy lifestyle, but to maximize the benefits of humor in education. These benefits include current research-based data on the use of humor to nurture creativity, to increase the capacity for memory retention, to support an optimal learning environment and to build safe communities that reflect the relational trust necessary for collaborative learning. An environment of fun is an indicator of a culture of trust. Each chapter of this book includes a study group format and powerful practice ideas for leaders. These tools can facilitate creative data analysis for educational leaders interested in understanding the relatively new field of positive psychology and how it can contribute to a joyful learning environment that promotes collaborative relationships.
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