BE STRESS FREE AND BLOOM LIKE A FLOWER!!!!

Is school stressful?

Teenagers say they're suffering, too. A survey by the American Psychological Association found that nearly half of all teens — 45 percent — said they were stressed by school pressures. Chronic stress can cause a sense of panic and paralysis, Alvord says. The child feels stuck, which only adds to the feeling of stress

Education - Approach

School education is the first environment outside the home where a child learns to interact with others. Therefore, it is very important for the school environment to be as comfortable and friendly as possible.

The impact of education on communities which previously did not have access to education has been transformational. Our programmes have enabled parents to recognise the benefits of education and given them new hope for their children’s future. Our programmes are also creating a sense of harmony among diverse cultural and ethnic groups.

We measure education not only through academic performance but also through the overall success and satisfaction of the individual. Our holistic approach aims to develop children to excel in all aspects of life – socially, psychologically and materially. The methodology promotes cognitive, physical, emotional, social and spiritual growth, thus leading to an education that is complete.

First - Generation Learners

More than 28% of the Indian population is under 15 years of age. It is estimated that at least 60 million children have no access to early childhood education. Ensuring such large numbers receive education is a real challenge, made more complex with 68 percent of India's population considered rural and 8 percent classified as tribal.

With this harsh reality, we have set up and continue setting up more schools in under-developed areas spread across India. Each school is committed to providing value-based, quality education to all children, most of whom are first-generation students.

The Art of Living also addresses the socio-economic and cultural barriers that keep children away from school. Through medical camps, parent education workshops and hygiene awareness campaigns, families are encouraged to send their children to school.

Under its Care for Child or Gift a Smile programme, the Art of Living runs 425 schools in the tribal and rural belts of India, where child labour and poverty are widespread. Nearly 43,572 children from economically challenged areas benefit annually.

Stress-Free Schools

Students are encouraged to broaden their vision and deepen their roots by appreciating their own cultural heritage as well as that of other nations. They are provided with modern tools as well as the moral and spiritual strength needed to face the challenges of modern day living.

By combining formal education with life skills and nurturing human values (such as friendliness, compassion, caring and sharing), teachers create a holistic environment conducive to learning.

When the focus is not just academic, but all-round development of the child, children learn how to handle their emotions and are also able to develop lateral skills required to cope with different challenges in life.

Developing Communities

Giving children an education and a solid foundation for a successful future not only for the entire family, but also translates into the development of communities over time.

The villagers find solace in simply-constructed structures that serve as schools. Learning in open spaces, in the fields, under the trees, these schools have help to bring communities together and allowed them to dream of a life they would want for their children. This unity enables continual development and expansion of communities thus helping to bring them closer to achieve better life and to create a self-sustaining tribal community.

The continual development and expansion brings communities closer towards achieving a better life and creating a self-sustaining tribal community.

STRESS FREE EDUCATION

Quality education and stress free education is the need of the hour. The twentyfirst century is about the management and assessment of all the knowledge we have generated and the value addition we bring to it. So we have to understand the term education. What is Education?

The word Education is derived from the Latin word – Educere which means ‘bring out, lead forth’. It means the child is not an empty box to fill. We have to bring the best out of him. Education focuses on the harmonious, physical, mental, social, emotional, technical, and spiritual development of the child. It transforms the child from a self-controlled, egoistic being into a social and global citizen. If this is the meaning of education, then why does education become the synonym of STRESS? Teachers and parents both have to try to understand the real meaning of education.

Today, education is stressful and challenging due to traditional parameters of academic assessment and evaluation. Every aspect of assessment instills fear in the mind of the child, the fear of competition, fear of forgetting and above all fear of being branded as a failure. So stress is a combination of all these fears. We should teach him that success is a journey, not a destination; and success needs hard work.

The great Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once said – Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. So all the stake holders in the education process need to make a paradigm shift to a more transparent and inclusive evaluation system. More efforts are required towards changing the mindset of children and parents; those who have very big dreams, make stress an inevitable part of their lives. The need of the hour is to understand that the rat race towards high ranking and unbelievable percentages will make the life of a child full of stress. Stress causes depression, insomnia, and brings about drastic changes in the personality of the child. Another reason of stress may be excessive workload, too many curricular activities and lack of time. It leads to rebelliousness among the students and kills the interest of the child in studies.

Ways to Reduce Stress in Your            Classroom

• Monitor the Physical Surroundings
• Allow for Movement and Fidgeting
• Reduce Extraneous Noise
• Build in Time for Transitions
• Make Your Students Aware of Their Own Mindset
• Give continual feedback
• Keep communication open
• Be relaxed yourself
• Teach time management
• Praise effort, not just product

Once Dr.A.P.J.Kalam asked –‘Can we make an education system which will retain smiles on the faces of the students throughout the period of education?’ So, both parents and teachers have to meet the challenges and work to maintain smiles on the faces of the students. A child stepping into the sea of learning is like a refreshing morning breeze untouched by stress of the competitive world. Parents and educators must understand child psychology and the real meaning of education.

The aim of education is to develop every child to become a confident and self-directed learner by working on his IQ, EQ and SQ and prepare him to become a physically, mentally, technically, ethically and morally upright global citizen. The goal of education was, is and shall always remain to equip our children with values to become better individuals; thereby creating a better world where there is no space for stress in life.

Stress or tension, has become an integral part of our daily life. A little bit of stress may be unavoidable and good too, for it would never allow us to be complacent in life. But too much of stress may be counterproductive and would in due course impair both our physical and mental health.

And such stress stalks all the age-groups including the children and the youth. Education should be a joyous experience, but if too much pressure is put into it, children find the going a hard nut to crack.

Too much of home work, home work during the long summer vacations and the tedious examination system, all have made both the wards and their parents edgy. There are hundreds of cases of youngsters taking their lives when they fail in the examination.

Failure in an examination is not the end of the life. One can excel in any field if one chooses the right field for which one has the aptitude.

It is the duty of parents, the schools, the colleges, the universities and the educational authorities to make education stress-free. They have to reorient education with the child or the youth as the centre, removing all the obstacles that come in the way of the development of an integrated personality.

To a large extent, a part of the stress can be eased by promoting a harmonious relationship between the parents on one hand the children on the other and also between the wards and the educational institutions. The parents should take an immense interest in what their child learns at the school and should do their best in attending the periodical parent- teacher meetings. All efforts should be made to sustain the trilateral interaction among the three-the student, the teacher and the parents.

A nationwide debate has been going on for some time to reform the examination system that has become a bugbear for most of the students. There is good news for the students appearing for the Board examinations.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) took a decision in July 2005, to give 15 minutes for the candidates to study the question paper before getting down to write answers, but the time will not be deducted from the total examination duration. CBSE has also suggested an internal assessment in Mathematics, Sciences and Social Sciences. Question papers would be set in such a way that they could answer in a time of two and a half hours, although students would have three hours to answer them.

The foregoing measures, aimed at making stress-free examination formed a part of the presentation made by the CBSE Chairman Mr. Ganguly at a meeting of parliamentary consultative committee attach to the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry on July 12,20 The initiatives proposed on internal assessment in Mathematics, Sciences and Social Sciences would be based on the project work and the assignment. This, it is hoped, would give adequate thrust on continuous learning in classrooms and assessment of the performance of the students on a holistic base covering wide range of learning skills rather than a. examination at the secondary level.

Reforms in the examination system are long overdue since they ha" a great bearing on the total education and personality development the children and the youth. The type of education, that makes student to think and to innovate boldly and helps them to satisfy their curiosity and to sharpen their skills, moulds the future of not only the student community but of the nation at large. We should encourage an unceasing debate on the quality of education that makes the pursuit of knowledge a relaxing experience while ensuring a world-calls standard.

The Council of Boards of School Education in India (COBSE) at the meeting in New Delhi on September 16,2005, has suggested that the students across the country should be able to make their own date she- for the Class X final examination.

The COBSE, however, rejected the National Curriculum Framework's suggestion to make the Class X Boar examination optional. It has proposed that the students be allowed I take the examination in a phased manner instead of being forced to appear for all subjects in one go. Says Mr. D.V. Sharma, General Secretary of the COBSE, "As of now students have to appear for the examinations in en go and in case they fail, they take the compartment (exams) a couple 3 months later.

All the Boards felt that the best thing would be to have a annual examination but follow it up with a second one, a month or so later. Students who don't want to take all the examinations in the firs session can opt to take the examination in the first session can opt to take the examination for some subjects in the second month The results would however, be declared together."

The COBSE has also made important suggestions to ease curriculum load. As regards the three-language system-at present compulsory-the Boards suggested that in order to ease the pressure on students, this could be replaced by a two-language system with the that language being optional. It was felt that students from north India ±d not give importance to the languages of the South. The option of a third language would ensure that only students seeking to learn more languages need to go for the three-language formula.

It may be recalled that the Supreme Court of India has recently made it mandatory for the schools to introduce Environment Education as a part of the curriculum. The COBSE has suggested that this could be a part of Social Studies or other sciences. Since it is an order from the apex court, the final decision in this regard would be taken by the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT).

Yet another move by COBSE to eliminate stress in the examination system is to shift to the grading system from the year 2009. The Boards have agreed to deliberate on a uniform grading pattern. Already being used by many schools at the primary level for assessing students, the grading system would be introduced in Class X level and extended to Class XII gradually.

Yet their meeting in New Delhi, all the Boards agreed that internal assessment is very important and should be promoted. Although Boards like the CBSE and ICSE have already introduced the system, it is suggested that it should be for all subjects and not for just Science practicals. Students will be marked on the basis of assignments, projects and class tests. A proposal was made making internal assessment mandatory for all subjects at the Class X level. This would mean that instead of a 100 percent external examination, students would now be marked by internal assessment for 20 percent of their total marks.

At the university levels too, various universities are contemplating examination reforms. For instance, fifty percent of the questions in Anna University's semester examinations will be of objective type and only the rest will demand descriptive answers from the engineering students. At a meeting in Chennai on July 18, 2005, the Vice-Chancellor of Anna University, Mr. D. Viswanathan said that the examination reforms are required and they should be based on problems experienced by all the sides. Issues such as question papers, syllabus, valuation system and revaluation need to be looked into.

Yet another area of education that causes frayed nerves both for the children and parents is homework. Home work, and mostly too much of it, leaves little time for the child to relax and play. How much of home work should be given daily and how much for weekends and the long summer vacations is a debatable point. The authorities must study the pros and cons, taking into consideration the total personality development of the child. But none would say that homework should be totally abolished.

For the home must function as complementary to the school to the overall development of the child. Says an educationist, "A great deal of research evidence now demonstrates that academic achievement is positively related to homework completion.” The researchers found the regardless of students' ability or prior coursework, the amount of time then devote to home work increases their achievement.

To ease the stress of education on the children, the parents too need a lot of counselling. The has become all the more necessary in view of suicides by students following the declaration of results of the Higher Secondary School examinations.

Many children weighed down by their failure to rise to the expectation of parents end their lives. "You are not your results," screamed the win projector screen of a powerful presentation made at a gathering of parents’ students, counsellors and achievers, held in Mumbai sometime ago. Said engineer-turned-singer Mr. Shankar Mahadevan, "Results are not everything. Do what you enjoy, success will automatically follow."

Why is it stressful to be a student?

Without really understanding why, they may become angry or anxious, sad or frustrated. When young adults become overwhelmed by stress, they sometimes withdraw or strike out at others. Parents often feel inadequate in responding to the stress experienced by their children.

How not to be stressed about school?

These seven tips are lessons I've learned on how to deal with stress more effectively.

1. Make a study schedule. ...
2. Find something interesting in the material you are learning. ...
3. Make time for yourself. ...
4. Don't keep talking about how stressed out you are. ...
5. Ask for help. ...
6. Say no to things you won't be able to handle.
7. Remind yourself that life moves on.

Everyone deals with stress. It is an unfortunate reality of human nature. There are expectations that aren’t always met and events that occur outside of our control. For many teens, a large source of this stress is school-related. On top of juggling extracurricular activities and a social life, we have to manage homework and studying while trying to stay sane. Sometimes, when the workload seems endless, we can’t even imagine how we will survive the week. Although stress is inevitable, there are a few steps you can take to make it a little more manageable. These seven tips are lessons I’ve learned on how to deal with stress more effectively.

1. Make a study schedule.

As annoying as it is to write down all of your assignments, putting what you need to get done on paper instead of keeping it in your head can be incredibly helpful. You can also estimate the time each task will take you so that you can plan when you will do each assignment. Writing this down will help you stop procrastinating and keep you from worrying about the lack of time you have. As an added bonus, there is immense relief that comes with crossing something off of your list.

2. Find something interesting in the material you are learning.

Part of what makes studying in high school so difficult is that students can’t always choose all of the courses they take. Sometimes, the content in the courses that you didn’t choose will not be your favorite. A lack of interest in the subject matter actually makes studying more difficult. When you dread doing the work for a class, it will probably take longer to do. To fix this problem, do extra research on what you are learning in class and relate it to something you are passionate about. This way, your homework will seem less like work.

3. Make time for yourself.

Try not to spend huge chunks of time doing nothing but studying. Taking a walk with your dogs or baking a batch of cookies will not ruin your grades. You will find that doing this will actually make you happier. Dance to your favorite artist’s new album or catch up on your fantasy football. Schedule these short breaks at regular intervals to reward yourself. Just because you have a lot of work doesn’t mean you should become a robot.

4. Don’t keep talking about how stressed out you are.

We all know that person who can’t seem to stop talking about grades and how much work they have to get done. I know that it is tempting to complain about your stress level and get sympathy from others, but eventually it becomes a competition of who has more work to do. There is no prize for winning this competition. People around you will be thoroughly annoyed and you will end up becoming even more stressed out.

5. Ask for help.

Sometimes, you have to admit that you don’t understand something. Feelings of helplessness and confusion almost always lead to more anxiety. Don’t wait until the day before a major assessment to seek out help. Instead of having these feelings build up inside you, ask a teacher or friend in your class for help as soon as you identify the source of your confusion. That way, your studying will feel more like review and less like learning something for the first time.

6. Say no to things you won’t be able to handle.

We all have trouble saying no. However, sometimes it is necessary to do so for your own sake. There is a major distinction between hanging out with friends for an hour and going on a two-day camping trip on a work-heavy weekend. At the end of the day, you know yourself better than anybody. Find a careful balance between doing the things that you love and managing your workload.

7. Remind yourself that life moves on.

If you find yourself in a state of panic, take a deep breath and put your feelings in context. Better days are sure to come. You do not equate to a number written in red pen. In 10 years, you won’t remember that one bad test. You will remember, however, all of the great memories that you made in high school. Don’t forget to make these memories.

Here are 9 tips for creating a stress-free work environment:

1. Add personal touches. ...
2. Keep your work space clean and organized. ...
3. Learn to handle or ignore interruptions. ...
4. Adapt to changes. ...
5. Add plants to your desk, office or cubicle. ...
6. Be a good communicator. ...
7. Incorporate relaxation exercises into your work day.
8. Change the layout of your office..
9. Redecorate.

How To Create A Stress-Free Work Environment

Does your workplace stress you out? I’m not talking about your everyday tasks, projects and deadlines; but rather the physical environment.

Maybe your desk is too messy, or your colleagues are too loud. Perhaps your boss is always looking over your shoulder, the dated technology gives you anxiety or you can’t stand the florescent lights.

Whatever the culprit, there’s a good chance it’s affecting your attitude and performance.

“I certainly think a fair percentage of people are exposed to various levels and flavors of stress within their work environments,” says Jenny Foss, a recruiter, author, career coach and founder of JobJenny.com. “Whether it’s physical or emotional stress (or both), many people suffer within stressful workplaces.”

Sherry Burton Ways, an interior designer, color therapist, and author of Feel Good Spaces: A Guide to Decorating Your Home for Body, Mind And Spirit, which was released last month as an Amazon #1 Bestseller, says things like noise, lack of privacy, poor lighting, poor ventilation, poor temperature control, or inadequate sanitary facilities can create a stressful work environment. “Marketing research has shown that approximately 80% of what we perceive or experience is based upon the visual sense of our environment,” she says. “Most office design is uninspired. Therefore, work environments create uninspired and stressful employees.”

It turns out disorganization is another contributor–but the good news is, this is something employees have control over.

“Our productivity is impacted by our level of organization,” says Susan Kousek, a Certified Professional Organizer (CPO). “Disorganization bothers most people and causes stress. The clutter of disorganization drags many workers down.”

Why? If your office is cluttered or disorganized, you may waste valuable time searching for papers and phone numbers, or you could miss important deadlines, Burton Ways says. “That clutter is likely also slowing down your mental energy and making it more difficult to function.”

What else? Bad or careless leadership, Foss says. Poor communication or lack of organization up top can certainly create a more stressful atmosphere—and, as it turns out, so can frequent organizational changes, according to a study by CEB, a member-based advisory company.

To thrive under these conditions of dramatic shifts and avoid getting too stress out by them, employees must learn to be immune to the complexities of change, and be willing to collaborate with a broad range of individuals, CEB says.

So while there’s a lot you can do about things like organization and your interactions with co-workers, you probably have very limited control over things like office décor and communication styles among upper management. However, there are things you can do to minimize stress, no matter what’s causing it.

Here are 9 tips for creating a stress-free work environment:

Add personal touches. If your workspace stresses you out, it might help to add personal items to your desk, cubicle or office that have some special meaning to you, Burton Ways says. “These could be photographs, inspiring artwork, books, a special lamp or a decorative accessory in your favorite color.”

Keep your workspace clean and organized. “A supervisor of mine from several years ago recently sent me a photo of me in my cubicle,” Foss says. “I was horrified by how messy and disorganized it looked. And I recall vividly how challenged I was by the mess. Mess equals stress.”

For many people, it’s difficult to focus when their desk is filled with papers, phone messages, business cards, magazines and newsletters, especially when the layers are inches high, Kousek says. “It’s the same with e-mail inboxes with thousands of messages. There’s always that thought, What’s buried in there that will come back to haunt me? What have I forgotten to do?”

Burton Ways suggests you get an organization system in place for your office. “A complete filing system and storage space can help you to organize your office in such a way where everything is in place and in reach for work.”

Learn to handle or ignore interruptions. Maybe you have a colleague who constantly stops by your desk to chat. Or you sit near the noisy elevator. Or your office has large windows. If you make an effort to learn how to properly handle these interruptions or ignore distractions in the workplace, you could significantly decrease your level of stress, Kousek says.

Adapt to changes. Does change make you anxious? If your workplace sees a lot of turnover, physical changes (office layout), or new software or technology (printers, computers, etc.), you’ll have to learn to adapt quickly.

Add plants to your desk, office or cubicle. “Integrating plants in the work environment not only beautifies the environment but has been proven to reduce absenteeism, reduce stress, lower blood pressure, increase positive feelings, lower noise levels, decrease room temperature and lower humidity,” says Burton Ways.

Be a good communicator. Poor communication often causes confusion (and therefore, stress) in the office. If those around you aren’t communicating well, ask questions, make suggestions and do whatever else you can to improve the situation.

If you’re stressed out by a co-worker who talks on the phone too loudly or a boss who’s always looking over your shoulder, figure out a way to effectively communicate your frustration or concerns. If they know their actions are causing you stress, they might be willing to make changes.

Incorporate relaxation exercises into your work day. If you’re allowed and it doesn’t distract anyone around you, play soft music, stretch occasionally or go for a walk. You won’t be able to get rid of everything that contributes to your stress in the workplace—but you can implement relaxation exercises when you’re feeling tense.

Change the layout of your office. “Using the ancient Chinese art of placement, place your desk area in the command position so that you can see all who enter,” says Burton Ways. “If you cannot do that and you are in a cubicle position, place a small mirror where you can see the entrance to your space behind you. If you perform a number of tasks, an L-shaped desk or table works best, as well as swivel chair.”

Redecorate. You might not realize that things like lighting, colors and décor are causing you stress—but it’s very possible. Try changing the wall color in your office, if possible. “Neutral tones tend to be calming,” says Burton Ways. “Yellows promote intellectual activity while blues and greens are more restful. Earth tone colors encourage warmth.”

Kill the fluorescent lighting in favor of softer, more ambient lighting, Foss adds. And invest in a decent chair, an ergonomically correct desk, and glare screens. “Protect your best asset, which is you, while you work.”

A stressful work environment can mean a lot of different things, Foss concludes. And sometimes, a worker has little control over de-stressing the environment. “I am a proponent of implementing and championing improvements whenever you can, yet I also encourage people to know when to extract themselves from a toxic environment. If you aren’t realistically able to improve a continuously stressful environment, it’s probably time to explore new opportunities.”

HUMOR KEEPS THE CLASS LIVELY AND STRESSFREE..

The human life is colored with many shades of human emotions to design the fabric of exchange and understanding. The student and teachers have relationship with exists all through the life any stage of career because of the constant learning associated with the values of integration to grow in the development programs and also the traditional teaching done in class. The value of understanding impacts the student satisfaction to create the impact of development and growth.

The teachers have to create the positive self –esteem for the students and project the and build an image through the experiences with different people and activities. The teachers should provide emotional support, reward competence, and promote self-esteem. The positive teacher-student relationships ahold is warm, close, & communicative colored with the humor to increase the understanding. The stress free environment created by the love and affection of getting connect makes the students feel loved and they will love in return. The students need the caring which is the deepest of all emotions. Caring is an activity of relationship, of seeing and responding to need, taking care of the world by sustaining the web of connection so that no one is left alone.

The quality of teaching can be enhanced by the valuable inputs of human emotions to sustain the empathic and sensitive relationship created by the flexible and supportive environment. The humor and interaction creates the

-Understanding

-Encourager

-Stable

-Sensitive

-the ability to reduce anxiety

-the willingness to listen

-the rewarding of appropriate behaviors

-being a friend

-the appropriate use of positive and negative criticism

Our deepest hope for our children is that they will construct knowledge in school about themselves, their community, and the world that is robust, resilient, and creative…The theory continues: for children to develop trustworthy knowledge, they must learn in the context of trustworthy relationships.

Humor in the classroom

Humor in classroom helps increases student attention and involvement. Humor has a positive effect upon learning retention. Humor creates a stress free and social environment, making the class more comfortable and manageable. Humor gets discussions started faster and gets better response in Q&A sessions. Humor should be related to the material being covered in the class.

Humor should be woven into the material that students are learning. Which shows that humor need not to digress the lecture, but can be used to help learn the material being presented.

When using humor in the classroom, remain focused on the positive behavior. A light hearted approach can help establish an environment conducive to learning whereas. Negative comments can backfire resulting in frustration and reduced motivation.

Verbal and Nonverbal expression in humor

If a teacher says something intended as humor, with serious body language, chances are that students could perceive sarcasm. Moreover it can be difficult for foreign students to pick up on sarcasm and they may think teacher is serious. Using facial animations such as a smile and comfortable body language along with a relaxed voice convey the message what you’re saying is meant to be humorous.

Humor to relieve tension

Humor not only helps to promote an enhanced learning environment; but also in relieving tension in the classroom. Humor can be used to relieve tension, but approach is helpful only in the early stages; once the tension has had time to grow, humor may not be an effective technique. Work needs to be done at developing one’s ability to read the students’ frustration levels so that steps can be taken to defuse the situation early. If you can find the humorous side of a tense situation, then you will have a better chance at defusing it.

Technique of using humor in the classroom

Instead of targeting the student for humor, target yourself. Students may feel threatened if you target your students with your humor. The whole point of using humor is to make people more at ease and to make the classroom environment more amenable to learning. One should be cautious while making fun of religious beliefs, race, or gender, which may result in animosity and a more hostile learning environment. Also be very cautious while cracking jokes on yourself as it can lower the respect students have for you. Always ask yourself while putting humor in classroom, is it appropriate? Is it timely? Is it tasteful and is it even funny?

Dos and don’ts of humor in the classroom

Do’s

-Humour is not about taking lots of time to prepare jokes for the classroom, in fact it should be very spontaneous and related to the topic

-Humour in the classroom doesn’t mean that you should be a stand-up comedian.

-Humour doesn’t mean drastically change you to be funny in the classroom.

Don’ts

- It is very important to create a positive atmosphere in the classroom so that the students are not afraid to make mistakes.

- Encouraging them to bring jokes and cartoons or in fact encourage students to connect with others in order to make the environment light.

- To break the monotony, every week bring a different pointer for your board or PowerPoint presentations.

- Include a trivia question half way into a quiz or a text.

- Figure-3 Do’s and Don’ts while using humor in the classroom

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Use of Humor in learning

- Employing a sense of humor can lower blood pressure, improve blood circulation and energy and help alleviate job stress and burnout.

- Using humor in the classroom can increase the students’ attention span.

- Humor can diminish anxiety and reduce the threatening nature of the course by changing the tone of the instructional process.

- Your students may even arrive to your classroom earlier than usual.

Impact of humor in learning environment:

Figure-5 Value creation by humor

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Above figure shows the impact of humor in learning environment. It shows how the stress free environment increases the quality of education which creates the value in learning environment.

Emotional bonding and humor both can be used to make the classroom environment stress free, which enhances the interaction between teacher and students in the classroom. It also enhances the quality of exchange of information by connecting them well.

As the quality of teaching increases, it cultivates the ethics and respects for the teacher in the classroom which helps in creating the sustainable relation between them.

Literature Review

According to Morella in 2008- “Humor can foster analytic, critical, and divergent thinking; catching attention, it impacts

- increase retention of learned material

- relieve stress, build rapport between teacher and students

- build team spirit among classmates

- smooth potentially rough interactions

- promote risk taking

- and get shy and slow students involved in activities

The famous school in the state of California is Lettuce Amuse U, which has only comics as instructors and their humor allows students to relax, if students make mistakes, humorous reactions allow them to learn in a non-defensive manner.

According to Metcalf and Flexible , people visit a photo booth to take many pictures of their outlandishly distorted faces. And when a major problem arises, take out the photos, and think, “You are not just the problem you’re having; you’re this too.”

According to James Gordon of Brigham Young University “when students are having fun, the class time virtually flies by, and the 50 minutes of class seem like a mere 48”

According to Parker Palmer in 1998, Good teaching comes in myriad forms, but good teachers share one trait: they are truly present in the classroom, deeply engaged with their students and their subject. They are able to weave a complex web of connections among themselves, their subjects, and their students, so that students can learn to weave a world for themselves. The connections made by good teachers are held not in their methods but in their hearts—the place where intellect and emotion and spirit and will converge in the human self.

Wanzer and Frymier (1999) found that teachers with a high humor orientation had increased perceptions of learning taking place by students. Their study further revealed that high humor orientation students reported learning more with a high humor oriented teacher.

Haigh (1999) suggests the judicious use of humor can help teachers gain respect and classroom rapport.

Mallard 1999- found humor to be "a powerful strategy for diffusing tense situations

Kher and others (1999) suggest the use of humor in "dread courses" in college. They identify "dread courses" as those students avoid because of perceived difficulty, a previous negative experience, or the students' lack of confidence.

Korobkin 1989- suggested five uses of humor in instruction which included (1) promotion of a humanistic, laughter-filled learning environment

(2) Cultivation of group humor and group identification

(3) Promotion of self-discovery and risk taking

(4) Development of retention cues

(5) Release of anxiety and stress.

Ziv1976- studied the effects of using humor in the classroom and increased creativity in thinking. Ziv stated that using humor can contribute to the expressions of more divergent thinking.

Chee (2006) classified humor in teaching into four major categories:

1) Textual

2) Pictorial

3) Action/games

4) Verbal

Objective

The basic objective is to analyze

· The student satisfaction created by the impact of humour in the students’ studding in the colleges of Jodhpur

· To determine the impact of humour on student development and satisfaction

· To frame the suggested strategy for providing the better education to the students

Students: 10 ways to beat stress

It's normal to feel stressed, but there are easy ways to make yourself happier. Young people should have everything to be happy about, but as the generation with the least responsibility we actually experience the most stress. A 2013 survey by the Nightline Association found that 65% of students feel stressed.

Stu`dents juggle part time jobs with university, worry about assignments and stress about the future and how to make the next step. Trying to manage all these things at once can leave you feeling overwhelmed.

As a student, every spare minute seems to be filled with worrying – you feel like you have to achieve something and make plans for your future. Instead of relaxing in the holidays, you're planning an internship to add to your CV, or working to earn some well-needed extra cash.

If you're not careful, working too hard and worrying too much can lead to "burnout" – when everything seems bleak and you have nothing left to give.

It might not seem like it when you're feeling down, but living a more stress free life is possible. There are some really easy ways to beat stress effectively. Here are some that I have encountered as a student:

1. A varied and healthy diet

Eating fresh ingredients and lots of fruit is really important. Juices filled with vitamin C, such as orange or grapefruit juice, are said to be good for your immune system so can help with stress.

When you're busy and tired it can be tempting just to grab another pizza or ready meal, but cooking from scratch can be therapeutic as well as being healthier.

2. Exercise

Doing sport at least once a week is the best way to reduce stress. It helps your body produce endorphins, which make you feel good. Even daily walks of 30 minutes can help reduce stress levels but it's even better to work out intensively. Even if you don't feel like it at the time you will feel the benefits afterwards.

Joining a sports club could also help with stress as the regular contact with other people should help improve your mood.

And why not try yoga? It's a great way to ease your mind and relax your muscles.

3. Meditation

It might sound simple, but sitting quietly for 10 minutes a day can really help with stress levels. If you've never tried meditation before, it's worth a go.

Good breathing techniques can put you in a more relaxed state as they send oxygen surging through your bloodstream, helping to calm you down and beat the stress.

4. Take breaks regularly

Short breaks between working can help you switch off. But longer breaks are important too.

How about taking the weekend off to relax? Make time for fun and for yourself even if this means that you have to schedule time away from your work. You'll hopefully come back to your work feeling fresh.

5. Get a pet

It is said that spending time with animals is good for your health. If you pat a dog for a couple of minutes, your body releases hormones that make you feel happy and can decrease the amount of stress in your system.

Most uni halls won't let you keep an animal though, so spending some time with friends or family who have pets is a good option: you get the love without the commitment.

6. Sleep (and sign off Facebook)

Sleep is always the best medicine and some people find that small 20-minute naps can help increase productivity.

As students we tend to spend too much time on social media sites and answering emails, texts and phone calls. Sociability is fun – but too much of it, and too much computer time, can lead to more stress.

Failing to switch off from work because of your electronic gadgets will only make you even more stressed.

7. Quit smoking

Some people say they smoke to relax, but researchers on the European Board for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco suggest that nicotine suppresses the hormone serotonin, which fights stress. Another good reason to quit.

8. Try to see the positive side

If you missed a deadline, try to appreciate what you learned from this mistake: now you know how to plan ahead. Things might seem bad, but if you try, there is usually something positive to be learned.

9. Listen to music

Listening to music can help calm you down and put you in a better frame of mind. If you're feeling stressed, putting on some calming music while you work could really help.

10. Laugh

They say that laughter is the best medicine, and it's really true. Laughing out loud increases oxygen and blood flow which automatically reduces stress.

Not taking life too seriously can help everyone live a better and easier life. Make time for yourself, log out of Twitter and take breaks. It's about time that we students accept that we can achieve just as much in life without all the stress.

Ways to manage or reduce the anxiety include:

• Study as much as you can. ...
• Try to mimic test taking conditions. ...
• Learn to study more effectively. ...
• Find ways to calm down. ...
• Watch your diet. ...
• Get enough sleep. ...
• Exercise regularly. ...
• Make sure you have plenty of time.

Some of the things students commonly cite as causes of stress include:

• examinations.
• deadlines.
• returning to study.
• pressure of combining paid work and study.
• difficulty in organising work.
• poor time management.
• leaving assignments to the last minute.
• out of control debts.