Becoming a good storyteller is of high value over time
A training course regarding storytelling
Are you wondering about the power of story through ages?
In our Storytelling CLD project initial Teachers Meeting, we focused in related topics, like
- why people, from far back in their origins, love a good story?
- where stories tremendous potential in advertising comes from?
- how our thirst for stories reflects the basic human need to understand the patterns of life - not just as a spiritual exercise but also as a personal, emotional experience?
And improved our comprehension of
- narration as "the use of voice, facial expressions, gestures, eye contact, and interaction to link a story to the listeners",
- stories as the way people approach and emotionally connect. It is the most effective way of merging concepts and feelings,
- stories as co-creative and interactive products, with great potential as a teaching tool,
- storytelling as a process where a person communicates with the public, and
- teaching foreign languages effectively by using more storytelling than traditional teaching materials such as books.
We emphasized “storytelling in class and its contribution to the students”. Because storytelling:
- offers two different learning situations for children, giving them the opportunity to become both the listener and the narrator,
- helps children develop a sense of narrative structure,
- develops understanding, listening and memory.
- provides an incentive to read: young children want to read the storybook after listening to the story
- helps them become a kind of literary critics through the selection of stories
- develops verbal expression
- encourages children to write their own original stories.