WEEK 36 - How does live storytelling win over Wikipedia?

PETRA

It is the title of an interesting article about storytelling I found this week on one of Czech educational websites. It is basically about teachers who are not freightent to stand against the streaming culture nowadays and focus on telling stories during their classes to make them more effective and more human. Some of them met at a storytelling workshop in Olomouc, Czechia a few days ago. Here are some of their thoughts on storytelling.

One is a narrator when they can evoke images in the minds of the listeners. Hands, facial expressions, voice, sounds, dance, music it all helps.

To be able to narrate a passage in an engaging way, for example from Flaubert's Mrs. Bovary, not to reveal the point, can entice students to start reading the book.

Narrative also has a place in Maths. When the teacher adds something interesting about the Pythagoreans to the Pythagorean theorem, the students gain a closer relationship to the topic.

Everyone needs to feed their desire to understand the world and themselves, and stories can arrange this.

Children's interest and concentration are fragile commodities, and teachers know they can lose it at any moment. Stories may come to their help.

Often we remember a story that the teacher just told by the way all our lives.

Thanks to stories, children develop without having to do anything,to try, or to be effective. All they have to do is listen, and something significant is happening that resonates with their inner world.

The ability to tell stories engagingly is natural for some, but for others it is a long-term trained skill.