Assignment
- Look at the major benefits to laughter and play in your classroom from page 33:
- maintain a high attention level
- relieve physical and mental stress
- build rapport
- increase retention
- enhance self-esteem
- promote divergent thinking
- bring new insights
- allow for pleasurable learning
- increase feeling of hope
Wow! Huge benefits!
- Take "The Laughing Classroom Quiz on pages 34-35.
- Please post thoughts and AHAS from the reading in The Laughing Classroom so far.
Ideas: (Remember these are just guidelines--all of the following do not have to be answered)
- Any questions from the page 24 Play Sheet.
- Paula Parrot and the Carrot--What makes you feel alive and what does this story have to do with education (pg. 29-31)
- Discuss your Gratitude and Humor Journal entries and how they have influenced your lives.
- Your scores on the Laughing Classroom Quiz (Reflections...)
