[.ca] The Laughing Classroom: Everyone's Guide to Teaching ... (ISBN 0915811995)

This Book Rocks:
I met one of the authors at a conference a couple of years ago, and was enchanted with her style so I bought the book. It is wonderful! Great ideas and practical games that teach lessons with multiple target educational objectives. I'm a motivational speaker and a theatre teacher. Working with the kinesthetic learner is a challenge. These exercises help make learning fun!

The Laughing Classroom:
This book is the best! It is a MUST for all teachers! It covers ways to really reach your students as well as keep your sanity. I cannot say enough... It is invaluable! Do not hesitate to purchase this incredible book. I cannot believe this is not mandatory to all educators!

The Laughing Classroom is a must!:
With a Foreword by Steve Allen & a Backword by Professor Oops! this Everyone's Guide to Teaching With Humor and Play offers teachers of formal education a hands-on text book to add humor and heart to their teaching day. This text book takes humor quite seriously, offering sections on Becoming a Laughing Teacher; Creating a Laughing Classroom; Tons of Techniques; Teaching With Humor That Heals & Using Laughter Forever After. It's an imaginative book with some very sound ideas, lots of comedy all illustrated in Martha Weston's delightful drawings. There are lots of poems, quotes & exercises to keep funny bones limber & give our belly laughs a work out! So, anyone know a teacher? Want to give your children's teachers something other than apples or boxes of candy? Then consider The Laughing Classroom when next you want to show your teachers your appreciation - they might like it & so might your children! I'd like to see The Laughing Classroom in every teacher's briefcase so that the classrooms in which our children spend so many days of their lives, could be that much more joyful, relaxed & learning-oriented. Do check out my full review.

Not what I expected:
I was disappointed in this book when I received it. I was looking for ways to make my H.S. History class more exciting, but I found that most of the suggestions in the book were geared more for the elementary school levels. The format of the book is set-up more like a comic book than an academic book and is filled with cartoon drawings and funny sayings. Although it was fun to read, I really did not feel that I acquired any useful knowledge from it1

Fun and Practical:
I loved this book! There is so much talk today about discipline and consequences. It was great to hear about warmth and rapport in teaching. If you use these techniquese you'll find students are naturally more cooperative and positive. I like the practical approach---lots of ready to use ideas, and meant to be copied, pages. A wonderful side benefit is that it makes teaching more fun for the teacher too.