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My center has monthly staff meetings, and I feel opportunities to learn AND have fun are extremely important. Games and team building exercises give my staff a chance to brush up on their skills and knowledge of regulations and policies. I have created a policy Jeopardy, Family Feud, Speed games, even a Newlywed game where instead of a suitor looking for dates, a parent poses questions to three potential teachers to find the right place to bring her child. These have been so much fun! Nothing thrills me more than seeing a reserved staff member whip out their competitive nature...and a little smack talk! :-)

An opening activity breaks the ice socially as well as creating a fun. warm environment for learning to take place. Participants are more willing to take risks and stretch their thinking in an emotionally warm, stress free environment. I have done people searches ( find someone who.....), treasure hunts, think-pair-shares (think about a provocative question and answer it for yourself, then pair up with another person and share your answers to the question). A fun one is to have small groups blow up balloons and then label each balloon with a responsibility they believe teachers have (as many as they can think of) then we have one volunteer stand up in the front of the class and as we talk about each one the "volunteer" is given the balloon. Needless to say they have a difficult time trying to manage all those balloons and then we talk about how we can share the burden of so many responsibilities or might discover that we think we have responsibilities that aren't ours to carry! It makes for a great interactive workshop/training!

In my Classes or training I uses twist initially into learning content which is used as fus as well as example of latter discussion.Some time Games are used as instant. It seems to me Ok. fun for fun I always don't like.

It's indeed that training should almost always be fun. Specially, in ECD sector, it is true for effectiveness. But, FUN shoud be matched with training need and more with content. I have almost posive experience of use of fun effectively in training. Howeve I have also some (few) negative use of fun in training or academic course. For example, some trainer usees fun for fun and getting clap and instant praise. Though s/he missed the content due to lost valuable time. Generally s/he intension to fun not to content. Without matching the content and missing valuable learning things s/he spent time for fun which is sinful tendency toward participants.

It's indeed that training should almost always be fun. Specially, in ECD sector, it is true for effectiveness. But, FUN shoud be matched with training need and more with content. I have almost posive experience of use of fun effectively in training. Howeve I have also some (few) negative use of fun in training or academic course. For example, some trainer usees fun for fun and getting clap and instant praise. Though s/he missed the content due to lost valuable time. Generally s/he intension to fun not to content. Without matching the content and missing valuable learning things s/he spent time for fun which is sinful tendency toward participants.