Top Secret Tips for Using Humor and Multimedia in Teaching and Assessment for the Net Generation

“EFFECTIVE TEACHING is all about the students; it’s not about the teachers.” Berk’s Law (2007)

Ron will show you how to incorporate humor, music, videos, and games to:

• connect with your students
• hook your students on any content topic
• maintain your students' attention
• reduce your students’ test anxiety and stress
• draw on students' learning styles and multiple intelligences
• increase your students’ test score performance
• improve student success and retention
• create TV, movie, and Broadway parodies
• reduce your stress level

PROVEN EFFECTIVE WAIT LOSS FOR ALL FACULTY!!

   Cut wait time to hear the latest research on your students
   Apply the cutting-edge teaching techniques now
   Use the latest technology to connect with your students
   Turbo-charge your students for learning before others do
   Take the lead in student success and retention
   Get a complete faculty evaluation plan for accreditation
   Don’t wait for competing institutions to grab your students

Ron will disclose his secret tips:

For transforming any content topic into a Broadway-type theatrical production, complete with music, videos, lighting, props, costumes, and drama. His passion for teaching is infectious. Faculty will learn concrete methods for using humor, music, videos, and games as legitimate, systematic teaching tools to facilitate learning and improve test performance for this Net Generation of students (aka “digital natives”). They are low-risk, nonoffensive techniques, which anyone can use in the classroom or in professional presentations. These techniques match the characteristics and interests of the Net Geners. Try a free sample of his new prescription (FDA approval pending) for humor and laughter: Mirthium® (available even cheaper in Canada and Mexico).
        
Ron also demonstrates how to evaluate teaching performance based on a state-of the-art critical review of 14 different strategies for formative and summative decisions. Faculty will be able to adapt a generic and very comprehensive evaluation model to their department for any accreditation self-study. Every teaching and evaluation strategy is time-tested and evidenced-based on more than 50 years of educational, psychological, business, and commercial-advertising research.

Ron is an internationally acclaimed:

   * Johns Hopkins University Professor Emeritus
   * Keynote Speaker and Workshop Leader at institutions
       in 35 states and 10 countries (including Canada,
       Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands,
       Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, and UK)
   * Award-Winning Teacher
   * Twisted Author of:
     Professors Are from Mars, Students Are from Snickers and
     Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator
   * Semi-Serious Author of:
     Thirteen Strategies to Measure College Teaching
   * Creative Researcher
   * Outrageous Thinker
   * All-Around Fun Guy

Media articles on Ron's teaching, presentations, and research:

  * The Chronicle of Higher Education
             (Did You Hear the One about the Professor?)
               [cover story and lead article]

   * Monitor on Psychology
             ([How Laughing Leads to Learning & Ham It Up])
               [APA  publication]

   * Reader's Digest
             (The Funny Factor)

   * Johns Hopkins Magazine
             (Who Says Statistics Can’t Keep You in Stitches?)

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Ronald A. Berk, PhD
410-730-9339
 rberk@son.jhmi.edu

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