Educational Benefits of Circus Skills / Juggling
Juggling
as Performing Mathematics article
Cognitive Benefits - To succeed
in juggling, students must understand a pattern, set
targets for their throws and work on the rhythm and
timing of their throws.
The evidence for many Educational Benefits
can be found in the book: Teaching Elementary
Physical Education - by Robert P.Pangrazi.
A great break in the daily routine
- During extensive academic work periods (such as
daily lunch breaks from work/studies), physically
active study (such as juggling) can help students
return to their work/studies feeling refreshed and
more productive. Kinaesthetic and Physically
active learners will love to learn juggling
especially! If you introduce juggling breaks/intervals
into your regular studies/school day, then you will
see these types of learners improve academically!
Juggling Can Boost Brain Power
Learning to juggle can cause changes in the brain, scientists have
found. Using brain scans, the researchers showed that in 12 people who
had learnt to juggle, certain brain areas had grown.
But three months later, during which time people stopped juggling,
the brain had gone back to its normal size. To read more on this amazing
discovery, please visit the
article on the BBC News Website.
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The Brain Power article can also be found on the
CNN website - Juggling
good for the brain, study shows
Appreciation of the Arts - Once
you have seen how easy juggling is to learn the basics,
then you begin to see how many hundreds of thousands
of tricks are out there for you to master. Any time
you see someone juggling, you then begin to appreciate
the amount of time and effort they will have put into
achieving such a routine! If students work on putting
together a show at the end of their workshop, they
begin getting a small glimpse of what it is like to
work in the entertainment industry.
Imagination and Creativity - once
you get involved with juggling, you can let your imagination
run wild and experiment with the tricks you have learned.
You may end up inventing a new trick, or even just
a different way of achieving a trick just by imagining
different patterns and different routines that may
be possible!
Good for your brain - Studies have
shown that people who challenge their brains and use
them for complex tasks throughout their life have
a reduced incidence of alzheimers disease.
Helps Dyslexia - It has long been
thought that juggling can help disabilities such as
dyslexia, attention deficit disorders and hyperactivity.
Dyslexia and the Brain: Juggle for a bigger brain
- article
Improves Student Behaviour - Schools
with juggling programmes tend to report quite satisfactorily
that student behaviour has improved amongst the pupils
who tend to create the most trouble.
Problem Solving - Students learn
to break each juggling trick down into its small component
parts, learn each of the parts, then learn how to
combine each part to form the trick. If they get stuck
at any particular point in juggling, they can guarantee
that someone more experienced will be able to offer
advice to help further.
Book Review taken from Happychild.co.uk
Do you want to learn how to
juggle? Do you want to learn how to learn?
If the answer is yes to both of those questions,
then Lessons from the Art of Juggling by Michael J.
Gelb and Tony Buzan is the book for you. It helps
you realise that learning is a rewarding and joyful
process and that your potential for learning is virtually
unlimited. You will also be pleased to hear that your
ability to learn can actually improve as you get older.
One of the reasons that we hold back from trying to
learn something new is that we are scared of making
a mistake. Guess what? It is okay to make mistakes
because by making mistakes, we actually learn. So
if you make more mistakes, you are actually learning
more. But what has this got to do with juggling? Well
you try and learn to juggle without dropping the ball.
If you are not dropping the ball, you are not making
progress because the nature of learning is a series
of apparent "set backs" interwoven with
plateaus of skill stagnation and the joyous bursts
of sharp improvement and steady progress. If you don't
want to learn how to juggle you can still gain something
from this book because the juggling is just a metaphor
used to illustrate the learning process. This book
covers how to use models of excellence, the power
of visualization, the process of trial and error,
how to become a successful coach and the importance
of play in the learning process. If however, you do
want to learn to juggle using this book, persevere
with the explanations and diagrams because it is always
a struggle to learn a physical activity from the written
word. If you know someone who can juggle, get him
or her to demonstrate what is being described so that
you can see how it should be done - otherwise, prepare
to be frustrated.
Lessons from the Art of Juggling by Michael J.
Gelb and Tony Buzan is published by Aurum Press (ISBN
1 85410 324 5).
If you have any further proof or articles about the
benefits of juggling, please let me know and I can
link to them. All the links on this page will
open in a new window as most of them are external
links to research.
If you would like details
of your nearest juggling club, contact
me!
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