Thank you Educast and Mohammed Nabil for organising Educast International Online Conference 2023 – a free CPD conference for teachers all over the world.
At the Educast International Online Conference (EIOC) 2023, I speak about storytelling and how stories can be used to teach language and life lessons.
Watch Bhavna Gupta aka Story Aunty narrating stories on our YouTube channel @StoryLandByLearning Sutra (scroll to the bottom of the page for link). Subscribe to the channel to listen to more stories.
Scroll down to download the 3S framework and a checklist that you can use to plan your Language and Life Lessons.
Storytelling is a powerful teaching tool and a second language acquisition method, especially for Young Learners. However, storytelling goes far beyond telling a story. It’s the perfect tool to bring real world issues into the Young Learner classroom while also making language learning an engaging and educational process. Try it!
Our elders used stories not only to teach us our first language but also to nurture a value system that stuck with us for long and is perhaps what shapes our thinking even today. With the positive impact that a story has on language learning and value systems, it becomes a powerful teaching tool in the Young Learner classroom allowing us to talk about complex concepts like climate action, inclusivity, social-emotional learning and inter-cultural understanding in an organic and age-appropriate way by integrating them into the story.
By asking the right questions while reading or telling a story, we can urge our learners to think to learn and pause to ponder while creating a context for a language lesson based on the story alongside valuable life lessons.
Isn’t that the nicest way to create change?
If you missed my session, you can catch up HERE.
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