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Chase, Kim – Educational Leadership, 1998
A middle-school teacher humorously observes seven other intelligences of students: random thinking; virtual memory void (erasing entire sections of personal memory); antigravity (balancing on two chair legs); intravacancy (achieving perfect, effortless aplomb); inter-Origami (intricate note-folding); stealth-kinesthetic (peashooting spitballs…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Humor, Individual Differences, Intermediate Grades
Glanz, Jerry – School Administrator, 1998
A content analysis of over 35 American motion pictures and television sitcoms since the 1950s showed principals most often portrayed as autocrats, bureaucrats, or buffoons. Sometimes, as in the TV movie "Kidz in the Woods," a single show depicts all three characteristics. Promoting instructional leadership and an ethic of caring among…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Authoritarianism, Bureaucracy, Characterization
Chapko, Mary Ann; Buchko, Marian – Principal, 2001
Two experienced elementary principals leading challenging suburban schools believe principals' greatest responsibility is helping others. To survive, principals should maintain a sense of humor, grow thicker skin, regard parents as potential allies, team with staff and respect their individual talents, hire the best teachers, and act in students'…
Descriptors: Coping, Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Guidelines

Holt, Dan G. – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1996
This article offers an abbreviated curriculum to help middle school students learn to use humorous strategies to cope with stress. An introductory discussion reviews the literature on coping and the benefits of humor. Outlined for the curriculum are student goals, unit concepts and generalizations, differentiated learner objectives, differentiated…
Descriptors: Coping, Curriculum, Gifted, Humanistic Education

Hawkey, Roy – School Science Review, 1998
Humor can not only provide motivation for learning but can also contribute directly to the learning itself. Presents and analyzes excerpts from a number of classic pieces of comedy writing. Contains 28 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Elkind, David; Parr, Jerry; Duffy, Vincent; Strader, Bill; Stephens, Karen – Child Care Information Exchange, 2000
Presents five articles on humor in early child care: (1) "What Makes Young Children Laugh?" (David Elkind); (2) "Humor as a Tool in the Workplace" (Jerry Parr); (3) "Vincent's Vignettes" (Vincent Duffy); (4) "Family Humor" (Bill Strader); and (5) "Books to Tickle Funny Bones" (Karen Stephens). (SD)
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Classroom Environment, Comedy

Weiss, Audrey J.; Wilson, Barbara J. – Human Communication Research, 1998
Assesses children's cognitive and emotional responses to negative emotions in family-formatted situation comedies. Tests children from two grade levels who viewed a sitcom that featured negative emotions. Reveals that inclusion of a humorous subplot distorted perceptions. Discusses children's social learning from television. (PA)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Emotional Response

Lahman, Maria K. E. – Childhood Education, 2001
Recounts experience of being an overweight preschool teacher. Discusses children's, colleagues', and parents' reactions to overweight people and to society's concept of obesity. Recommends humor to deal with weight issues in the classroom and tells of meaningful encounters with children about obesity. Describes other adults' embarrassment when…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Classroom Techniques, Humor, Obesity
Zingher, Gary – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2002
Describes funny characters in children's books and films, including humorous children, adults, and animal characters. Considers younger children and middle grade and older children and suggests library media center activities for various age groups. (LRW)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Characterization, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education

James, David – College Teaching, 2004
As colleges, universities, and schools move to offer more classes in the popular online format, both teachers and students should be aware of what may be absent in class: the routine benefits of humor. For years, student surveys on the characteristics of the most effective teachers routinely have placed humor as one of the top five traits (Hart…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Effectiveness, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes
Poole, Carla; Miller, Susan A.; Church, Ellen Booth – Early Childhood Today, 2005
This article discusses the importance of humor and how it helps to understand children's thinking from birth to 6 years. The article presents three sections describing how a young child's sense of humor reveals much about the way he thinks. The first section is entitled "Giggles!" written by Carla Poole. Intended for babies from birth to 2, Poole…
Descriptors: Humor, Young Children, Childhood Attitudes, Child Behavior
Meloni, Christine – Library Media Connection, 2006
For young teen girls, reading has become hot again. With their appealing covers, witty heroines and humorous plots, teen chick lit books are bringing girls out of the malls and into local libraries and bookstores in search of the next must-have title. These fun books are about boys, friendship, family, fitting in, and growing up. What makes the…
Descriptors: Novels, Females, Fantasy, Middle Schools
Swanson, D. J. – 1996
On a daily basis, American television and radio audiences are subjected to a stream of broadcast Public Service Announcements (PSAs), each promoting "some kind of social or economic action deemed beneficial" (Stridsberg, 1977). Often, these announcements employ humor as a presentational device to help stimulate the behavioral change…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Broadcast Industry, Case Studies, Communication Research
National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL. Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar. – 1992
This proceedings contains half of the papers presented at the third annual conference of the Association of Teachers of English Grammar. Papers in the proceedings are: "Grammar as a Method, Not as a Subject" (Marilyn N. Silva); "Using Humor to Teach Grammar, or the Grammarian as Stand-up Comic" (Frank Peters); "Grammatical…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Grammar, Higher Education
Shapiro, Dan; Varey, Kim – 1996
A study focused on investigating perceptions of sexist humor, specifically on how people perceive others' reactions to sexist humor. Subjects, 206 college men and women, rated communication competence and attraction of actors in vignettes depicting 2 different reactions to sexist humor. Results indicated that sex of both the joke teller and the…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Higher Education, Humor, Language Attitudes