Session on Humour and Creating Learning Environment

 We did two activities during the humour session:

Our experiences and learnings from them were: When one is humorous

• You are being open , in the sense that you understand others viewpoint.
• It is the first step to bring our stress levels down.
• A lot of inputs come in naturally.
• You appreciate other people and you are non judgmental.
• It makes the environment lighter thereby releasing a lot of energy.
• It allows you to be yourself and not thus not being artificial.
• Humour works with children very well as it changes their current state of mind (if negative), and works with facilitators too.
• This makes all our senses come alive and learning becomes more effective.
• Also it is a good way to start the day.
• Humour is motivating, creativity blossoms, involvement evolves.
• It is good to be laughing, khud bhi hason aur dusron ko bhi hasao.
• It is a good tool to criticize in a soft way and can be used to discipline children without hurting or putting them down .

When one  creates a physical environment::

• Creativity comes alive with or without resources.
• Each session can be made interesting as it stimulates the mood thereby making learning easy.
• It also encourages spontaneity in class.
• It makes the whole atmosphere very thrilling.
• It is also very rewarding to the children.
• The paper cutting reward slips is a very beautiful idea to appreciate children in class.

All of us would love to incorporate humour not just in class, but as a way of life itself. 

 Anjana :-)
8TTT