The Utilization Of Storytelling As A Pedagogical Strategy

So, it is time for us all to meet again. Although we have not heard stories from all, many of you who spoke led a commendable effort. Many of you managed to tell good stories, but there’s a distinction between good and exceptional. A great story keeps us on our toes with dynamic characters. Also, a speaker’s unique flair in storytelling is needed to keep us engaged throughout the tale. Lastly, great stories have a lesson that is applicable to us all.

When I first took a look at my first assignment for English Composition I – Write a Literacy Narrative. The first thought it came to mind was “ESL” (English as of Second Language). I started to reminisce about my first year as a freshman in High School. It was the fall of 1985; I just had arrived from Colombia as an exchange student. On the first day of School, I reported to the front office, still not knowing what to say or what to do. I was completely lost and scared; the nice lady at the desk looked at me with a smile and started to talk. I did not understand a single word of what she was saying at that time, except “Hello”. After a few minutes of silence and staring at each other, I gave her a piece of paper that my

I teach fourth grade language arts where my main focus is to prepare my students to write a personal narrative for the Nebraska State Writing Test in January. Reading and writing are intertwined in my area of professional responsibility as I motivate my students to write a well-organized, creative personal narrative. As I have taught writing, I have found reading, writing, speaking, and listening go hand in hand when composing a personal narrative (Bruning, 2011, p. 299).

I have never been the type of student who enjoyed reading or writing. I have always found it difficult to express myself by writing narratives, book reports, and any other required assignment. I am far more skilled at speaking or verbal expression in general as I have found over the years that people tend to misunderstand my point if it is written.

For an exceptional literacy narrative, several key features must be present. There must be a well told story with vivid detail, and it must clearly show the significance of the narrative. Amy Tan meets all these requirements in her work “Mother Tongue”. The significance of her story was very easy to see because she elaborated on how her mother’s broken English had a dramatic effect on her writing style and speech, as well as how it influenced some of her and her mother’s earlier experiences in life. She also describes the difficulties her mother faced because of how she spoke. The story reflects on earlier points in her life, then explains how they helped her develop into the writer that she is today. The story included vivid details, which

As the famous Eleanor Roosevelt Once said, “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” This is very true to my story. When I was little I thought that I would always go to my charter school, LCCS until I graduated to high school. I never thought that I would change schools, that thought never entered my mind until I heard about the Advanced Enrichment Program. Then all my visions of what it would be like to stay at LCCS were thrown out the window and I transferred all my effort into preparing to take the test to get in. This the story of how I tried my best to get in, even though I thought I couldn’t do it.

In terms of education, talk can be defined as everyday uses of spoken language and it refers to the act of both speaking and listening (Bearne, 1998). (Mercer, 1995)categorised talk in three ways; cumulative, disputational and exploratory. Cumulative talk is when pupils work together in pairs to gain a shared knowledge about a subject, disputational talk is mostly short controversial utterances in the form of a debate and exploratory helps people work together by using each other’s ideas critically. Mercer’s three categories of talk are examples of the types of talk that can be found in the classroom environment. This essay will consider will examine the importance of the talk in the classroom and the challenges of it, with specific reference to storytelling.

I would recommend incorporating narrative therapy into the intervention for the client Molly, who is eleven years old. The reason for this decision is because since the approach provides a creative way for clients like Molly to express themselves without feeling judged or misunderstood through various creative means including painting or creating poems. This intervention will consist of both deconstruction and reconstruction where the therapist will help assist Molly to turn her problem saturated stories into more positive ones, which will hopefully in turn help separate herself from the problems that she has identified herself as. Molly will greatly benefit from this form of therapy where the therapist will provide the client the opportunity

There are three major tenant to my philosophy as a educator. The first is that all students deserve a quality education and that when students are denied a quality education society as a whole suffers. I strongly believe that getting a good education should be mandatory for every student in America. . It is clear to me that being deprived of the best education possible is a form of oppression. Education has the power to liberate. It can be a catalyst in helping to reshape the thinking of both the uneducated and educated, allowing for actions that can lead to social change. If we leave the oppressed uneducated, then any progress for social change can never truly be effective. This in turn hurts the country as a whole, not just the oppressed

From birth we are told who and what we are to be in life and molded through our families stories, history and cultures. As individuals, we continue to grow and develop over time and through life we hit a 2 way street that either questions who we were told we were and who we want to be based on what we currently think about ourselves. Sometimes, our inner thoughts don’t coincide with what’s going on physically, emotionally and spiritually and you begin to question your inner being of who you are and what you stand for. We find ourselves struggling to uphold or suppress living the lives that either no longer fit us or define us. In search of a new outlook, we gravitate to someone who can listen to our stories and influence us to write new

In this webinar, it emphasizes the importance of storytelling in the workplace and conferences. Storytelling can not only bring people closer together but motivate people in the workplace in order to accomplish a task. Ms. Waymon uses the stories as examples to illustrate how they promote accountability, motivation, and even confidence. The stories are designed to teach the listener, furthermore, it is meant to help someone or a group better understand the point in order for that person or team promote the message through their behavior and productivity. In addition, Ms. Waymon states stories should engage the listeners to think of how they would react if they were in the situation.

Reflecting back on my field experience, I was able to gain quality insight as well as a better understanding of the teaching and the learning process of ESOL in a mainstream classroom. My experience in Mrs. Little’s classroom has shown that the role of the ESOL teacher is to educate students in functional language skills, offer content that is academically challenging, and helps students acculturate to the new language and culture.

Young children are like sponges; they absorb information like a sponge absorbs water. It is essential for them to be emerged in an environment in which they can absorb positive information so that one day they can become contributing members of our society and have a better future. For this reason, there is a pronounced importance on providing enriching environments for children to learn and develop appropriately. One of the ways that this can be achieved is through a literacy rich environment specifically with the use of story reading and storytelling.

As you can see, for my first draft of my literacy narrative, I briefly explained how English as a Second Language (ESL) helped me improve my reading comprehension and writing because I was born in a foreign country that speaks Spanish, but I was brought to the United States, were it's mostly spoken in English, and my home language remain Spanish. With that feedback from my professor and peers commenting similar suggestions like the one above, I included specific situations that served as examples of progress. I also expanded on a method of learning through music lyrics by using Micheal Jackson's songs and specified the words used, I managed to compose a decent literacy narrative for

They way stories are told may morph, but never will storytelling cease. From their people skills to their memories, there is no argument that storytellers possess boundless talent and intelligence. They were the first educators. And now, storytelling is a large part of everyday life. The news in the morning, the gossip throughout the day, the casual response to the casual “What’s up?” – It’s all a form of storytelling. Our lives are steeped in it. In almost every conversation a story is told. At every turn a story is born. So we all are storytellers, and the world is our audience, just waiting to hear the gospel leave our