Title: Laugh and Learn: 95 Ways to Use Humor for More Effective Teaching and TrainingAuthor(s): Doni Tamblyn
Publisher: AMACOM
Date: 2003
Pages: 272
Size: 1.56 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: English
While Laugh and Learn offers plenty to keep smiles on the faces of trainers and their students, it's not a collection of one-liners and knock-knock jokes. It's an enlightening and practical look at how teachers and training professionals can inject elements of entertainment, creativity, humor, and emotion into their existing methods, even when dealing with serious or technical topics. [+/-]
Filled with fun, challenging, and thought-provoking exercises to help readers feel more comfortable being funny, the book also provides dozens of workshop activities and techniques to introduce humor into the learning environment.
Combining the latest brain studies and humor research with the author's own 23 years of experience in comedy and corporate,training, Laugh and Learn is a fascinating look at what makes learners perk up, pay attention -- and remember! It’s the first book that 1) explains the research that shows how humor can make information more memorable, 2) teaches communicators how to be funny without relying on joke-telling or novelty store items, and 3) gives specific, light-touch techniques that can be used by virtually anyone who seeks to present their message more effectively.
This book will help teaching professionals to:
• Attract more learners to their programs
• Get and hold learners’ attention throughout the learning process
• Present curriculum memorably
• Positively affect learner attitudes
• Go beyond teaching facts, to encourage and model creative thinking (a much-sought ability in today’s organizations!)
• Improve performance scores both inside and outside of the classroom
• Enhance their own reputations as contributors to their organizations' bottom line
• Get "buy-in" from organizational decision-makers
Moreover, LAUGH AND LEARN is a true page-turner! Rich in insights, research data, showbiz secrets, and backstage anecdotes, it is a book that will be read and reread. From the very first chapter, readers will begin to see that professional development can actually be fun!
Wouldn't you like your learners to say the same?
Filled with fun, challenging, and thought-provoking exercises to help readers feel more comfortable being funny, the book also provides dozens of workshop activities and techniques to introduce humor into the learning environment.
Combining the latest brain studies and humor research with the author's own 23 years of experience in comedy and corporate,training, Laugh and Learn is a fascinating look at what makes learners perk up, pay attention -- and remember! It’s the first book that 1) explains the research that shows how humor can make information more memorable, 2) teaches communicators how to be funny without relying on joke-telling or novelty store items, and 3) gives specific, light-touch techniques that can be used by virtually anyone who seeks to present their message more effectively.
This book will help teaching professionals to:
• Attract more learners to their programs
• Get and hold learners’ attention throughout the learning process
• Present curriculum memorably
• Positively affect learner attitudes
• Go beyond teaching facts, to encourage and model creative thinking (a much-sought ability in today’s organizations!)
• Improve performance scores both inside and outside of the classroom
• Enhance their own reputations as contributors to their organizations' bottom line
• Get "buy-in" from organizational decision-makers
Moreover, LAUGH AND LEARN is a true page-turner! Rich in insights, research data, showbiz secrets, and backstage anecdotes, it is a book that will be read and reread. From the very first chapter, readers will begin to see that professional development can actually be fun!
Wouldn't you like your learners to say the same?
Download link:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/5ZFTTrN
No comments:
Post a Comment