How and Why to use Humour within Classrooms?

Name: How and Why to use Humour within Classrooms?
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Created byDr. Dheeraj Mehrotra

Last updated 7/2025

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What you'll learn

Humour as a Teaching Technique

Course content

1 section • 11 lectures • 44m total length

Introduction2:50
Explore how to use humor in classrooms to engage students, connect with children, and support learning-to-learn through various humorous strategies.
Importance of Happy Classrooms3:04
Plan engaging questions to anticipate a range of responses, guiding students through balanced, relevant inquiries that connect prior knowledge to new learning and support assessment for learning.
Learning to Delight1:31
Learn to select and present suitable examples to generalize concepts, using varied illustration types to explain ideas effectively and maintain an engaging classroom environment.
Teaching with Excellence2:21
Master effective closure to wrap up lessons, encourage discussion, synthesize new knowledge, and confirm student understanding, reinforcing learning with meaningful context.
Making Happy Going6:13
Utilize humor to boost student engagement and performance, reduce anxiety, and weave laughter into tests, homework, and classroom activities through varied humorous formats.
Delightful Learning a priority6:05
Engage students by weaving humor, human stories, and jokes into lessons to build a humane classroom, reduce stress, foster community, and keep learning as a priority.
Making Happy Going First Time Every Time4:23
Boost learning, motivation, attendance, engagement, and test performance by using humor in classrooms while reducing anxiety, and foster a positive social-emotional learning environment and stronger student-teacher bonds.
Mastering Learning & Teaching via happiness quotient3:56
Explore how humor in classrooms enhances learning, boosts engagement, and creates a positive, student-friendly environment that transforms dull moments into aha moments of learning.
Conclusion4:57
Utilize humor deliberately in the classroom to boost student learning, strengthen the learning environment, and cultivate cognitive, emotional, and social benefits that reduce anxiety and increase motivation.
Bonus Lecture7:02
Technology drives a new era in education, unlocking potential and enabling personalized learning through digital tools. It connects students globally via online platforms and immersive technologies in the classroom.
Appreciative2:07
Explore how neuro linguistic programming (NLP) helps teachers tailor methods with anchoring and rapport to boost classroom trust, engagement, and calm focus through simple cues and mirroring.

Requirements

Teacher/ Educator/ Head of Schools

Description

For now, the learning within classrooms had a limitation. The module activates Learning as a priority. With the wisdom of learning within classrooms, the strategies need to be re-visited with all of us to integrate HARMONY and wisdom in totality. Here comes the importance of Humour in practice within classrooms in particular. The research projects it is one of the most innovative and much used practices to promote connect and interactions within the classrooms of the new age. For sure, the humour is rightfully targeted towards sharing notions and connect in particular. The obvious fact lies with the spectrum of managing classrooms in race. The module features the inception of Teaching styles that have changed significantly over the years. Here we have shared the switch from the traditional way that education was delivered was through recitation and memorisation techniques, whereas the modern way of doing things involves interactive methods with humour as a priority now for sure with the march of time and tide as a reality in practice for schools and teachers need to dwell as a hobby for now. The module is eyed and segmented towards the participative nature of students within classrooms to get the connect and make learning as a priority for both the teacher and the learner in momentum to share the cause of learning making the best for all and bringing a delight to the stake holders. The need is now for a connect and that is so very possible via the introduction of humour as one of the mantras of teaching practices to be followed for now. Let the joy govern within classrooms. Grab how and why?

The module features the inception of Teaching styles that have changed significantly over the years. Here we have shared the switch from the traditional way that education was delivered was through recitation and memorisation techniques, whereas the modern way of doing things involves interactive methods with humour as a priority now for sure with the march of time and tide as a reality in practice for schools and teachers need to dwell as a hobby for now. The module is eyed and segmented towards the participative nature of students within classrooms to get the connect and make learning as a priority for both the teacher and the learner in momentum to share the cause of learning making the best for all and bringing a delight to the stake holders. The need is now for a connect and that is so very possible via the introduction of humour as one of the mantras of teaching practices to be followed for now. Let the joy govern within classrooms. Grab how and why?

Happy Learning. Cheers.

Who this course is for:

Parents/ Teachers/ Educators/ School Principals