The Storytelling Schools Method - Handbook for Teachers

The Storytelling Schools Method - Handbook for Teachers
Author: Adam Guillain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2020-09
Genre:
ISBN:

Storytelling Schools is a tried and tested methodology for learning. It combines oracy, creativity and literacy into a single educational model. At its heart is fluent communication. Students learn to be storytellers, performing fiction and non-fiction pieces as a way of internalising language, structure and meaning in a simple and engaging way. The first Storytelling Schools handbook was published in 2013.Since then, the method has been adopted in hundreds of schools across the UK and beyond. This new handbook includes a range of new insights and approaches which have evolved over these seven years. The handbook is aimed at early years, primary school and middle school teachers as well as home educators. It will show you how to: Tell stories to your students Teach your students to retell the stories Link the stories to creative arts and creative writing Apply the method to non-fiction communication Apply the method across the curriculum Create new stories from old.

The Storytelling School

The Storytelling School
Author: Chris Smith
Publisher: Storytelling
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781907359385

Handbook for teachers using Storytelling Schools methodology to teach literacy in schools. This dynamic approach to developing literacy helps children improve their writing, listening, empathy, speaking, reading, comprehension, performance, memory, imagination and confidence. It shows teachers the stages for learning how to tell stories, how to use stories in their teaching and how to teach children to tell their own stories with easy to use methods. In a storytelling school, all children learn how to be storytellers as a way to improve literacy and learning subjects across the curriculum.

Teaching as Story Telling

Teaching as Story Telling
Author: Kieran Egan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 1989-03-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780226190327

An eminently practical guide, Teaching as Story Telling shows teachers how to integrate imagination and reason into the curriculum when planning classes in social studies, language arts, mathematics, and science. In his innovative book, Kieran Egan refashions the ancient function of the storyteller with such clarity that any teacher can step into the role with confidence. Not only does Egan's book make the reader look anew at what is too often taken for granted about the ways in which children learn, it opens up a range of critical questions about our orientation to "objectives" and to either/ors when it comes to the affective and the cognitive. - Back cover.

History Through Stories

History Through Stories
Author: Chris Smith
Publisher: Storytelling School
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2016-07-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781907359446

Part of a complete approach to learning and improving literacy using storytelling, from Storytelling Schools, which offers resources and training for teachers.

147 Storytelling Games and Creative Activities for the Classroom and the Home

147 Storytelling Games and Creative Activities for the Classroom and the Home
Author: Kate Barron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2020-04-16
Genre:
ISBN:

This book from the Storytelling Schools team provides a clear, concise and rich source of ideas for how to learn and play through storytelling. Sections include speaking and listening games, learning to tell a story, drama, movement, music, poetry, writing, story recycling and story creation. All activities are tried and tested in Storytelling Schools classrooms across the UK and beyond. They provide a rich addition to every educator's kitbag of ways to inspire, energise and engage through storytelling. Each exercise is presented in brief outline for the educator to adopt and adapt as they need. The book is suitable for classroom teachers, early years workers, home educators, team leaders and anyone who wants to play around with stories in a creative and engaging way. It is also a great resource for parents who like to play at storytelling and storymaking with their children.

Storytelling with Data

Storytelling with Data
Author: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2015-10-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1119002265

Don't simply show your data—tell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples—ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation. Storytelling is not an inherent skill, especially when it comes to data visualization, and the tools at our disposal don't make it any easier. This book demonstrates how to go beyond conventional tools to reach the root of your data, and how to use your data to create an engaging, informative, compelling story. Specifically, you'll learn how to: Understand the importance of context and audience Determine the appropriate type of graph for your situation Recognize and eliminate the clutter clouding your information Direct your audience's attention to the most important parts of your data Think like a designer and utilize concepts of design in data visualization Leverage the power of storytelling to help your message resonate with your audience Together, the lessons in this book will help you turn your data into high impact visual stories that stick with your audience. Rid your world of ineffective graphs, one exploding 3D pie chart at a time. There is a story in your data—Storytelling with Data will give you the skills and power to tell it!

Storytelling across the Primary Curriculum

Storytelling across the Primary Curriculum
Author: Alastair K Daniel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136580514

Starting from the question ‘what is a story?’ Storytelling Across the Primary Curriculum leads the reader through the theory and practise of storytelling as an educational method – a method taught by the author over the last ten years through Primary English teaching programmes. This practical book gives teachers the skills and confidence to use storytelling and the spoken word in new and exciting ways in the classroom. It will also give teachers the confidence to ‘put down the book’ and trust themselves to tell, rather than read, a story. It provides a wealth of examples of cross-curricular teaching opportunities, including a section on the ways in which the teaching of phonics can be embedded in the 'real' language of story. Storytelling Across the Primary Curriculum is ideal for trainee and practicing primary school teachers who want to develop their classroom practice within the field of storytelling. Students on BA Primary, BEd, and PGCE courses, particularly those specialising in English, will also benefit from this book’s stimulating and intuitive approach to teaching English language and literacy.

Street Data

Street Data
Author: Shane Safir
Publisher: Corwin
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2021-02-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1071812661

Radically reimagine our ways of being, learning, and doing Education can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Instead of the focus being on "fixing" and "filling" academic gaps, we must envision and rebuild the system from the student up—with classrooms, schools and systems built around students’ brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellectual potential. Street data reminds us that what is measurable is not the same as what is valuable and that data can be humanizing, liberatory and healing. By breaking down street data fundamentals: what it is, how to gather it, and how it can complement other forms of data to guide a school or district’s equity journey, Safir and Dugan offer an actionable framework for school transformation. Written for educators and policymakers, this book · Offers fresh ideas and innovative tools to apply immediately · Provides an asset-based model to help educators look for what’s right in our students and communities instead of seeking what’s wrong · Explores a different application of data, from its capacity to help us diagnose root causes of inequity, to its potential to transform learning, and its power to reshape adult culture Now is the time to take an antiracist stance, interrogate our assumptions about knowledge, measurement, and what really matters when it comes to educating young people.