DIEGO FERNANDO CUERO

PERSONAL WRITING PROJECT

First version.

HUMOUR  AS A  LEARNING TOOL TO ENHANCE CHILDREN ATTENTION.

My granny was a cooker, and every day a was expecting what was she going to cook ? and  every Sunday my family was waiting to be nourished  by her delicious menu there was a secret ingredient  to keep them hungry wating for sundays. When I grew up I asked her about the extra touch in her recipe  and she said  “spice”.

Here is the extra touche  for making your classes wished for children. Humor  is the spice that our classes need for being attractive.  It is easy to explain to a group of teachers what comes after the letter “a” but it is very difficult to find  that make learning fun.  So, what a best proof can a teacher have that his  or her  program has been a success, than to see smiles on their faces.  As a teacher we have to be aware of the impact that humour can produces on childhood’s personality when we provide them a relax and enjoyable classroom atmosphere.

In many  schools   teaching is a stress due to the “quality controls in order to improve”, but learning in classroom  becomes in a serious work which can never ,never ,never taken lightly  whitout taking in to account that humour  is in our creative writing, and it is found  when we read  stories   aloud  and if they commit a mistake they will see the humour  in their little errors and difficulties that could cause them frustration.

 Humour talks of who are we, how our spirit is? . That is why “A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but sadness crushes the spirit Proverbs 15:13” .It is time to take a look at the importance of humor in the classroom.  Humor is one of the methods to help students learn. It aids children learning when it’s authentic, not forced and can help relax them in the classroom.

More and more teachers move away from the traditional pedagogic perception that humor does not fit in the serious work of teaching because is really serious. Some teachers avoid humorous situations in the classroom, because first they are afraid that they may lose control of the students, second ,they do not believe in humor’s positive effects and third, they believe  teaching is a very serious job for  very serious people.