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Comment by Laura Kamis Wrang on September 17, 2009 at 12:01am

My work the last few years has been focused on..how to bring in the storytelling element into schools. This has lead to several workshops and storytelling events. Even though storytelling is being placed on the yearly curriculum in schools, you will still meet the odd..ah and what are you going to read for us today ? So... there is still a lot of work to do.
What angles have I taken...Well...for one I have used a storytellers angle to create an anti story for the teenagers to comment on ... as a peptalk to how to present while reading up a story. In the story I present all the things that take aaway from you or your presentation... and the great thing is... I am the one doing everything wrong... and they have to spot the faults. This leads to a lot of laughs and head shaking... Gum??? daaa!!!...telephones on in class... tpfh!!! Later on in the evaluation, I am often told by the teacher that... the kids who commented... were the ones who are always "forgetting" to turn of their phones... and now have started to remember : ) Them "Knowing better" made it more legit..to be on top of the problem.
I find that telling stories create this magical space for discussing themes in a good way.. a crystal ball we can look into together and talk about in our way afterwards... sharing our feelings, thoughts in a very giving way.

I am very interested in sharing thoughts on "How to" with storytelling in schools. My teaching themes are "Storytelling - the how to do it" basic and advanced, English and drama - English and stagefight - Public readings and speaking for Kids - the older agegroups - Tea time on how cultures meet and share - Abrahams Daughters on hte stsory of Abraham from the Coran and the Bible set in a moderne setting - Noahs dream on innovative thoughts and the resistance to thinking new thoughts - Creative Workshops on fairies - Myths - Fables and The Olden days .... plus more to come : )

Comment by Dimitris Prousalis on July 28, 2009 at 2:34pm

DEAR TOM, GOOD EVENING. I RED YOUR INTERESTING COMMENT ABOUT YOUR WHOLISTIC TRIADIGM MODEL OF SYNERGISTIC INTELLIGENCE. I'LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN I SHALL VISIT THE SITE THAT YOU RECOMMENT.
DIMITRIS

Comment by Tom McCormack on July 23, 2009 at 3:08pm

I am a pioneer in the field of Synergistic Intelligence. The current education programs being taught and promoted are M.I. (Multiple Intelligences) paradigm models. My S.I. model has a completely different configuration and is based on a wholistic triadigm. I have a powerful dream-learning component that shows students and teachers how to greatly increase their comprehension and memory abilities. Specific information about my work is online at www.educationwizard.org. There are diverse applications for storytelling in the classroom that awaken the will to learn in students. The most critical factor is over-looked in the assessment criteria..... it is Assessing the Will To Learn.
Tom

Comment by Dimitris Prousalis on July 22, 2009 at 5:26am

As an educator as well as a professional storyteller i'm interested in sharing ideas and thoughts about the creative use of storytelling in classroom.
I hope that there will be lots of subjects and opportunities to communicate about.
Friendly
Dimitris Prousalis-Athens Greece

Comment by Debbie Dunn aka DJ Lyons on April 28, 2009 at 12:42pm

In addition to being a Professional Storyteller & Published Author, I am a Conflict Resolution Specialist. For five years (1998 to 2003) at an East Tennessee middle school, I taught Conflict Resolution techniques, Character Education strategies, and Public Speaking. The class was called Communication Skills. This story is part of the curriculum I created called 3 C's: Conflict Resolution, Character Education, & Communication Skills.
During that five-year period, I created over 3000 pages of curriculum for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.

My original plan was to eventually try to get this material published as an additional source of revenue. In light of the two eleven year-old boys who recently committed suicide due to the acidic effects of bullying, I made a decision. Instead of continuing to allow this material to gather dust, I decided to post as many of these stories, class activities, and role-plays as I could in the hopes that it would be of benefit to others.

I just added 11 new Blog Posts having to do with using storytelling to teach the concepts of Conflict Resolution and Character Education. You are welcome to make use of this material as you work with kids. I will be adding more material in the days and weeks to come.

Comment by Brian "Fox" Ellis on January 12, 2009 at 8:02am

In response to Shari Lynn Kochman's question about on-going, district wide youth storytelling programs, I created a full time job in the Charlotte NC schools back in 1992-3 in which I visited ten of the poorest academic achieving schools in the state to beef up literacy skills through a storytelling residency with measurable outcomes in test scores and a culminating storytelling festival in all ten schools. I share 30 stories and lesson plans from that experience, and subsequent artist in residence programs in my new book from Libraries Unlimited: "Content Area Reading, Writing, and Storytelling" available from the publisher or my web page. The introduction and preface also offer an in depth history of the program and model for others to create a similar program. I would like to encourage every storyteller/teacher to create a similar position in their school district. I would be happy to consult. After a lengthy conversation with a few tellers from NJ at a National Conference they went back and created a year long residency that was written up in Teacher magazine in the late 1990s. There are also more than 100 lesson plans written by teachers on my web page, www.foxtalesint.com, all free for you to download and use, just credit your source. Hope this is helpful.

Comment by Norah Dooley on January 10, 2009 at 4:29pm

Octavia Sexton was looking for information about audience and all other related topics ? One idea is to go to Wallace Foundation site - Great stuff there. www.wallacefoundation.org/

Comment by Oel Castner on December 8, 2008 at 6:08am

this group is growing be leaps and bounds, I am truly amazed. I hope that all of my storytelling frieds will have wonderful holdiays...........oel

Comment by Buck P Creacy on September 30, 2008 at 7:05pm

Hello Everyone;

Please check your freindship request and either accept them or reject them. But please don't let them sit idle. If one hundred people do that, if keeps others from making new friends. Just go to your friends tabs, the little silloettes at the top right of your page, under your name and click it. I expect if you haven't found it by now... you may have many pending new friends.

Just a tip.
Buck

Comment by Patricia Kjolhede on May 26, 2008 at 8:48am

Hi Lois!

I have to admit...my telling experiences with this age group is in pairs or in small groups...they seem to do better with a partner to lean on and I am OK with that. The real goal is that they grasp the idea of storytelling, re-telling and oral language development at this point. Thanks for the book suggestions. I thought that I had "Joining In", but I have a book by Teresa Miller, so I will check out the one by Judy Sima and Kevin Cordi and also Doug Lipman. The more fun that they have with the concept, the better. We will certainly meet our language arts goals in the process too.

I am hoping to run into you at the Storytelling Festival in Flint to further "pick your brain"

Fondly
Tricia

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