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Empower your school with one of the most potent technologies known to education — the ability to use humor effectively.
Wavelength's Certified Laughter Leader, Jim Winter, shares research and practices that can enhance and enthuse any principal's school, classrooms, and collegial work.
Interactive and Inspirational
Winter (president of Wavelength Inc.) reviews the research and provides the theories, forms and styles of humor that support student achievement. But he doesn't stop there. In addition to humorous examples, anecdotes, cartoons and video clips, Jim Winter will guide MESPA Institute participants through improvisational activities and laughter exercises designed to boost energy, enhance spontaneity, increase collaboration, and develop the ability to create a fun, healthy climate for learning and living.
The Wavelength Inc. "The 'Sense' of Humor" has received terrific reviews nationally (AASA, ASCD, NASSP, NAESP and NSDC) and internationally in Prague, the Hague, Singapore (twice), Manila, and Ho (ho, ho,) Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Learn to:
- Understand humor’s source and its unique function in effective teaching and learning.
- Identify various types, forms and styles of humor.
- Experience improvisational exercises designed to enhance individual spontaneity and group collaboration.
- Recognize appropriate and inappropriate uses of humor.
- Explore ways to use humor to create a climate for learning.
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How to humor, laughter, and improvisation enhance educational leadership?
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| Keynote | Thursday, February 2, 1 p.m.in the Grand Ballroom speaking on
"The 'Sense' of Humor"
Sponsored by Lexia Learning
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| | Jim Winter, B.A., M.A., is a former high school English teacher, staff developer and corporate trainer. Jim realized the connections between great improvisers and great teachers while studying improvisation at the Players Workshop of Second City. In 1980 Jim formed Wavelength, a performing ensemble of actors and educators that use humor, laughter and improvisation to train, motivate and inspire educational professionals.
Jim is a Certified Laughter Leader, a veteran workshop presenter and an award-winning actor and producer of educational training videos. Jim leads an engaging and interactive session that has received terrific evaluations at national presentations for AASA, ASCD, NASB, NASSP, NAESP, and NSDC and internationally for AAIE, ECIS and EARCOS.
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