Erasmus+ project financed by the European Union
Erasmus+ project financed by the European Union
Humour as a pedagogical tool can be like walking on a tightrope. If done well, it could enhance learning or at the very least make learning more fun. However, if not done well, it could have disastrous consequences. I remember a few years ago attending a webinar on use of humour and I found it …
Teaching through storytelling dates back thousands of years (Kosa, 2008). According to Coulter, Michael, and Poyner (2007) and Sanchez (2005), storytelling offers much more than casual entertainment within academic settings. Instead, storytelling is a tool that helps students understand the world around them. Storytelling enables students to visualize themselves in similar situations as the characters …
Role-play is a pedagogy used in a wide variety of contexts and content areas. The guidelines for the role-play are usually modelled on realistic criteria, so the students can get as close to the real thing as possible. Research on role-play’s effectiveness and best practices exist as far back as the 1970s; recently, however, role-play …
Teachers experience a range of emotions during their work (Frenzel 2014; Keller et al. 2014), which are triggered by multiple factors and their interplay (Schutz 2014). Teacher emotions typically unfold in interaction with their environment (Day and Gu 2014). Teachers interact with different people in their work (e.g. colleagues, parents), but interactions with their students seem to be the …
Boredom is a common complaint among students. Boredom was previously found to be negatively associated with academic outcomes, such as academic motivation, strategies, and achievement. It is of interest to understand students’ in-class boredom, especially factors that might exacerbate it. A study published at The British Psychological Society, examines the influence of teacher’s boredom on …
Over the past decade, technology has been developing at an overwhelming speed and it is often changing people’s lives to make things easier and better for them. On the other hand, it has taken over control of people’s lives. They cannot go through the day without having to text someone, watch videos, surf the internet …
Materializing gamification procedures is a rather complex process then just using “point”, “badges”, and “gradings” triad in applications and activities. In most case, using design knowledge and design technologies in expertise level is needed to be successful. Because, the reasons for knowing “why, when, where and how to use gamification in education” needs to be …
Boredom may be the largest pedagogical obstacle to teaching (Smith, 2007), and many believe it is up to teachers to spark students’ interest in classes. One way to ignite students’ enthusiasm is by using humour. In the classroom, humour can create a cheerful learning climate, enhance social bonding through increased student-instructor interaction, add variety to …
There are several ways to interject humour into instruction, and in this section, we offer suggestions for using pedagogical humour in online lectures and examinations. The placement and duration of humour used in online lecture modules are critical to the flow of instruction. Short, simple jokes are most appropriate for the introduction and transitions while …
Clear classroom expectations increase the likelihood that students will be successful in understanding what is expected of them. The classroom schedule allows the class members and teacher to anticipate what will happen during a school day. Guidelines for schedule development are as follows. 1) Teachers should seek student suggestions after ruling out nonnegotiable events and …