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Humour promotes learning

What if there was a free magic pill that could reduce your students’ stress, anxiety, and tension while increasing their self-esteem, alertness, creativity, learning, and memory? Would you prescribe it? Finding a treatment that is free and without side effects and helps to improve learning and memory would seem to be an improbable task. However, based …

Building bonds with humour

Teaching is about forming relationships and making and strengthening human connections. An examination of over 800 meta-analyses on the factors impacting achievement in school-aged students revealed that constructive student-teacher relationships have a large and positive impact on students’ academic success. In fact, the strength of the student-teacher relationships has a greater impact on student success …

The history of humor and learning.

Teaching is not just about content; it is also about being a performer. The content must do more than educate; it must also entertain, because teaching is a performance art. In the classroom, the teacher has the responsibility to communicate as well as engage and entertain. In this context, numerous scientific studies conducted over the …

Classroom decorations tips

According Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development study, students in OECD countries receive an average of 7 590 hours of compulsory instruction during their primary and lower secondary education. Though classroom structure remains synonymous, it’s formative design has the power to discourage or invigorate students. Classroom decor can have a subtle, yet longstanding effect on the learning …