Program / Event Details

Let storytelling support your teaching and enliven any curriculum! This Professional Development (PD) teaches teachers how to tell a story—instead of reading or memorizing it—and offers a model they can use to teach students how to tell a story.

Experience your creativity and find your unique storyteller voice when you use the power of spoken word. You will discover the valuable role storytelling plays in the cognitive, emotional, and social development of children, as well as learn how to help students:

Become enthusiastic about learning
Develop listening skills
Enhance imagination
Practice compassion and cross-cultural understanding
Increase language and literacy skills
Connections:

Social emotional skills: Listening and empathy
Literature: Bringing stories to life and making it relevant
History: Bringing stories to life and making connections to personal & current events
Increase motivation for learning