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Title
Storytelling in Teaching 4 Skills: Learning Opportunities
Presenter
Faisal Al-Shamali
Overview of Workshop:
The participants have been reading about using techniques of storytelling to further their success in teaching. They might have even read articles on this topic. Maybe they’ve attended other professional conferences on a storytelling strategy. Storytelling is a tool for business field i.e. teaching but it's tough to know what they, specifically, need to learn from this. In my coaching workshop, let me focus on "you" teachers, parents, friends, your superiors, etc.
Workshop Objectives:
The aim of this workshop is to find new alternatives, more challenging ways in teaching ‘traditional’ skills and to create new authentic activities that could involve storytelling as facilitator of teaching process. Storytelling is a skill that can be effectively directed to improve other skills, such as writing, grammar, listening and speaking. In this workshop, I will try to create a bridge between different skills through storytelling.
Workshop Procedure:
Storytelling is the oldest form of education. Cultures around the world have always told tales as a way of passing down their beliefs, traditions, & history to future generations. Stories capture imaginations, engaging the emotions and opening minds of listeners. Consequently, any point that is made in a story or any teaching that is done afterward is likely to be more effective. Storytelling serves many functions; it will always be the cornerstone of teaching .It's the task of a teacher to find out how to use it effectively, energetically ,skillfully and develop his/her students' competence and performance. A teacher can train students how to be a good story-teller using good breath control, careful enunciation, appropriate gestures, postures, effective pauses and other speech techniques that make him/ her a proper speaker. Storytelling will improve your ability to communicate your messages and make them stick in the hearts and minds of your students, your listeners, your friends, your superiors.
Keywords:- Storytelling, challenging ways in teaching ‘traditional’ skills
Bio:-
Faisal Al-Shamali was born in 1972, Jordan. He received his BA in English Language & Literature from Yarmouk University in 1994 and MA in Linguistics in 1998 from the same Institution. He has been honored to be immediately appointed as a teacher in governmental school in North Shoneh since 1994. In 2001, he was chosen as a best teacher to teach at the Pioneer Centre 4 Gifted Students. In 2004, he got a contract to teach as ELT at King Saud University. In 2007, he got a contract to teach at Dhofar University, Oman till now. He is considered as a computer literate in holding ICDL. He did and still does workshops on English Language. In 2003, he held a great festival on English Language which was visited by the Cultural Attaché of the British Embassy, the manager of the British Council and the Ambassador of Greece. In 2007, he held a workshop on ESD. In 2007, March, he attended a conference on
English Language, supervised by the University of Delaware.
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