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Teach Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics With a Sense of Humor: Why (and How to) Be a Funnier and More Effective STEM Educator and Laugh All the Way to Your Classroom
What if you could be a much funnier and more effective STEM educator than you are today?
The STEM education world has been waiting for this Hundreds of insights and funny examples of how you can create humor, deliver humor and be a likable teacher or professor (and get promoted faster!).
You need to engage your students. You need to know how to make 'em laugh.
Whether you’re a new STEM teacher/faculty just starting out or a professor looking to use humor for your next “serious” lecture, this book is for you.
This book will help you develop techniques for leveraging humor and take action to improve your teaching immediately today.
Top contributing professors in this book will answer your hundreds of questions such
How humour breaks down barriers to STEM learning and teaching? How to use humour as a tool in science learning and teaching? (Chapter 1);What are the reasons to use humor and laughter for teaching and learning? How to create intrigue with humor when teaching environmental science? (Chapter 2);How to develop the kind of classroom community you want? Exactly how to use various humor tools in the classroom to engage students (and make your points)? (Chapter 3);How to use science jokes and puns? How to leverage creativity and imagination in your teaching? (Chapter 4);Why use fun when preparing prospective science teachers? How do you know when a lesson is a success? (Chapter 5);How to step into the child-like joy of science? How to help improve students’ confidence and academic achievement? (Chapter 6);Why (and how) to use humor to enhance science learning? How to pickpocket Science jokes? How to not torture your students? (Chapter 7);How should you get students to laugh with you rather that at you? How to use puns and cartoons in the classroom? (Chapter 8);What can we learn about Science by learning about the hero’s journey? What can we learn from Charles Darwin? (Chapter 9);Why teaching Geology is funny? How to use stories to engage students? (Chapter 10);What is Humor? What humor theories explain about how humor works? What are the humor techniques you can utilize in the classroom? When are jokes inappropriate? (Chapter 11);Why humor is the answer to the ultimate question of the classroom? How to address remote teaching and complications of using humor? (Chapter 12);Why I “bleed green” and why I want my students to know this? How do we build communities of learning with humor? (Chapter 13);How to make humor studies relevant to students in STEM disciplines? How to convince engineering students that humor can make them better engineers? (Chapter 14);What are the environmental implications of population Growth? How globalization plays a role on environmental quality? (Chapter 15);How to plan on deliberately including humor in your classes? (Chapter 16);How can humor and silliness make the class bearable and the students come back for more? (Chapter 17);Exactly how to use various humor techniques and infuse humor in your writing and presentations or lecture? (Chapter 18).
The STEM education world has been waiting for this Hundreds of insights and funny examples of how you can create humor, deliver humor and be a likable teacher or professor (and get promoted faster!).
You need to engage your students. You need to know how to make 'em laugh.
Whether you’re a new STEM teacher/faculty just starting out or a professor looking to use humor for your next “serious” lecture, this book is for you.
This book will help you develop techniques for leveraging humor and take action to improve your teaching immediately today.
Top contributing professors in this book will answer your hundreds of questions such
How humour breaks down barriers to STEM learning and teaching? How to use humour as a tool in science learning and teaching? (Chapter 1);What are the reasons to use humor and laughter for teaching and learning? How to create intrigue with humor when teaching environmental science? (Chapter 2);How to develop the kind of classroom community you want? Exactly how to use various humor tools in the classroom to engage students (and make your points)? (Chapter 3);How to use science jokes and puns? How to leverage creativity and imagination in your teaching? (Chapter 4);Why use fun when preparing prospective science teachers? How do you know when a lesson is a success? (Chapter 5);How to step into the child-like joy of science? How to help improve students’ confidence and academic achievement? (Chapter 6);Why (and how) to use humor to enhance science learning? How to pickpocket Science jokes? How to not torture your students? (Chapter 7);How should you get students to laugh with you rather that at you? How to use puns and cartoons in the classroom? (Chapter 8);What can we learn about Science by learning about the hero’s journey? What can we learn from Charles Darwin? (Chapter 9);Why teaching Geology is funny? How to use stories to engage students? (Chapter 10);What is Humor? What humor theories explain about how humor works? What are the humor techniques you can utilize in the classroom? When are jokes inappropriate? (Chapter 11);Why humor is the answer to the ultimate question of the classroom? How to address remote teaching and complications of using humor? (Chapter 12);Why I “bleed green” and why I want my students to know this? How do we build communities of learning with humor? (Chapter 13);How to make humor studies relevant to students in STEM disciplines? How to convince engineering students that humor can make them better engineers? (Chapter 14);What are the environmental implications of population Growth? How globalization plays a role on environmental quality? (Chapter 15);How to plan on deliberately including humor in your classes? (Chapter 16);How can humor and silliness make the class bearable and the students come back for more? (Chapter 17);Exactly how to use various humor techniques and infuse humor in your writing and presentations or lecture? (Chapter 18).
259 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 27, 2022
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