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	The Teaching Story
		Like any scientific textbook or mathematical formula, however, stories depend for their higher power upon someone to understand them at the higher level, someone who can establish their validity in a course of study, people who are prepared to study and use them, and so on.
		And, too, that these stories are conscious works of art, devised by people who knew exactly what they were doing, for the use of other people who knew exactly what could be done with them.
		If we compare stories to try to see where the higher level is, we will not find it, because we do not know unless guided which are the ones to compare with each other, under what conditions, what to look for, whether we can perceive the secret content, in what order to approach the matter.
	www.idriesshah.info /Shah/ShahTeaStor.htm (2760 words)

	Narrative and Stories in Adult Teaching and Learning. ERIC Digest.
		A beginning point for a discussion of narrative and story in adult education is an understanding of narrative as a broad orientation grounded in the premise that narrative is a fundamental structure of human meaning making (Bruner 1986, 2002; Polkinghorne 1988, 1996).
		As audience, we are engaged with the story on both levels, and it is through this dual involvement that we enter into the minds of the characters and into the deeper meaning of the story.
		The actual uses of narrative and story in adult teaching and learning are literally unlimited because they arise from infinite expressions of interpretive interplay among teachers, learners, and content.
	www.ericdigests.org /2003-4/adult-teaching.html (2123 words)

	Encouraging Campus Focus on Learning and Teaching (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Teaching was seen as artwork, created between a patient professor and his young student, a Norman Rockwell, one-on-one moment.
		Stories about teaching should be shared internally because they reinforce us in pursuing our most basic mission and provide inspiration and celebration for our efforts.
		To fight the second culprit downsizing teaching’s reputation, we must reemphasize the complexity of teaching, specifically by (1) focusing more on learning than on teaching, (2) by concentrating more on teaching excellence than teaching adequacy, and (3) by requiring complex evaluations of teaching.
	www.uwsp.edu /CPS/Staff/jnorth/Documents/GVSU-ReadMyLips.htm (4408 words)

	Reflective Teaching: Situating Our Stories
		A case is made for the value of reflective teaching as a practice, an attitude, a way of being professional, and as a source of potentially insightful solutions to problems.
		Initially a story seems to be a very personal matter: There is concern for the individual narrative of a teacher and what the teacher herself, and what [others] as privileged eavesdroppers, might learn from it.
		In the course of engaging with stories, however, we are beginning to discover that the process is a social one: The story may be told for personal reasons but it has an impact on its audience which reverberates out in many directions at once.
	www.cuhk.edu.hk /ajelt/vol7/art1.htm (6630 words)

	Stories of the Holocaust: Teaching the Hidden Narrative
		I was very moved by the story of a young African-American woman who was clearly shaken by the things she saw in the museum, and was disconcerted by the fact that she had never before encountered the Holocaust.
		Teaching through the lessons that are embedded in life stories provides an inclusive, critical, and pluralistic way of thinking that stands in sharp contrast to Nazi Germany's annihilation of thinking and difference.
		Specifically, transformative teaching is supported through institutional structures such as: alternative delivery models that provide sustained contact among class participants, teaching assistants, and forums for faculty to debrief their experiences.
	www.lesley.edu /journals/jppp/1/jp3ii8.html (3017 words)

	Teaching Children Through Stories
		Reading to your children and using stories to teach is a technique that is within the capabilities of everyone.
		After reading the story of The Little Engine That Could, my daughter began to identify herself with the Little Blue Engine who said "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can." It served to be a good model for her to follow at times when she felt inadequate.
		Stories are a safe way for children to explore emotions and behaviors.
	www.cut-the-knot.org /Education/teaching_children_through_stories.php (966 words)

	teaching stories
		It is made of all kinds of things that are not stories: matter and energy shaped into other people, trees, rivers, cars, buildings, roads, the inchoate flux of experience passing through us more rapidly and densely than we can possibly absorb, let alone make sense of.
		In a sense, then, teaching is nothing more than an artful, caring conversation, as all conversations should be: empathetic, attentive listening coupled to measured, humble response.
		To my mind, the test of the experience of the literature classroom actually takes place outside the classroom, outside the confines of the university, when a student, a reader, a weaver of the web of language, encounters, perceives, and engages the world within and around her.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~scolas/Teaching/teaching_stories.htm (1183 words)

	Yago's Teaching Main Page
		i teach two courses per semester there, a mix of courses that range from large lecture classes, to small seminars for freshman or for more advanced undergraduates, to seminars for graduate students working on their doctoral degrees.
		overall, though, i think of what i do as drawing my students' attention to the fact of stories and of the power of stories.
		i develop this idea in a short essay called "teaching stories."
	www-personal.umich.edu /~scolas/Teaching/teaching_main_page.htm (194 words)

	Robert Ornstein Speaks at Library of Congress on Teaching Stories and the Brain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		But they are designed to embody—in their characters, plots and imagery—patterns and relationships that nurture a part of the mind that is unreachable in more direct ways, thus increasing our understanding and breadth of vision, in addition to fostering our ability to think critically.
		Ornstein sees stories as being part of our basic cognitive development, leading the child and then the adult to learn more about what happens in the world, when and how events come together.
		He points out that the stories of all cultures share more in this regard than they differ, and that an analysis of stories throughout the world shows that the same story occurs time and again in different cultures.
	www.hoopoekids.com /REOatLOC.html (438 words)

	APS Observer - Storytelling in Teaching
		Stories can serve multiple functions in the classroom, including sparking student interest, aiding the flow of lectures, making material memorable, overcoming student resistance or anxiety, and building rapport between the instructor and the students, or among students themselves.
		Because listeners have their own interpretations of the point of stories, it is your responsibility as an instructor to make the message of the story clear, and draw links between the story and the abstract principles it demonstrates.
		Your use of stories should be integrated with reference to empirical evidence, so that students do not come away with the impression that a single story, even an especially vivid and compelling one, should be understood as proof for a particular position.
	www.psychologicalscience.org /observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1562 (3136 words)

	Berea College -Berea College -Teaching, Learning & Communication Resources - Selected Teaching Stories
		Autobiography of Conway's graduate studies at Harvard, her teaching and move into administration at Univ. of Toronto; ends with her acceptance of the Smith College Presidency.
		Spiritual inquiry; includes stories of Norris's teaching poetry in elementary schools and of monks as her teachers.
		Story of a nun who's a professor teaching Shakespeare to an unusual student.
	www.berea.edu /cac/resources/teachingstories.asp (680 words)

	Pharyngula::Teaching horror stories
		Since he began teaching, some decades ago, the first-year curriculum has had to be modified to include several weeks' worth of basic grammar and style instruction, and a remedial English class has been instituted.
		The best training I had for professing (at a private college where teaching was heavily emphasized) was two weeks of instructor's school in the Navy and a 1-semester drama course I took in 1902 or thereabouts because there were more girls in drama than in physics.
		And yes I understand that it must be frustrating to teach a bunch of people that are more concerned with their weekend activities than studying.
	pharyngula.org /index/weblog/comments/teaching_horror_stories (4766 words)

	Funny Stories
		She came to the part of the story where the first pig was trying to accumulate the building materials for his home.
		I began teaching jive in my Grade 6 class and some of the boys were a little reluctant to hold hands, get close to the girls,etc. I wanted to make the point that there are only a few places where people (especially boys) can learn how to dance, like school, their mom, or a friend.
		True story - Kindergarten teacher comes to me in the office, and said a parent called her and said she's sure glad I was back form the illness and hoped there would be no more.
	www.yesiteach.org /funny.htm (5811 words)

	Cyber Short Stories
		I would post to the listserv questions, observations, and hints about these stories and the scholars would answer to the list when they were ready and prepared to do so after reflecting on the question before answering it.
		Their own stories were uniquely theirs with their characters, their setting, their plots, and their themes.
		The short stories they read today may be tomorrow's classics and they had the first word of criticism on them.
	www.tnellen.com /ted/short.html (1530 words)

	Teaching stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Teaching stories is a term introduced by Idries Shah to describe stories and anecdotes that have been deliberately created as vehicles for the transmission of wisdom.
		"On the surface teaching stories often appear to be little more than fairy or folk tales.
		Other stories, such as those from the Thousand and One Nights and other collections of traditional myths and folktales, are considered by some to fall into this category as well.
	www.synergebooks.com /literary-genres/teaching-stories.htm (144 words)

	Aadizookaanag, Dibaajimowin: Traditional and True Native Amrrican Stories
		His stories are partly "political myths" used to hide messages from spies.
		STORY (by links) of Native Languages -- A page of resource links for those interested in Native languages.
		Copyrights to the stories are held by their respective creators, 1995.
	www.kstrom.net /isk/stories/stories.html (689 words)

	ISHK Teaching-Stories
		All cultures have their stories, many with universal themes, plots and imagery.
		Stories are fundamental to the psychological development of children.
		Stories give us a sense of shared history and destiny and help us see our common foibles and predicaments.
	www.ishkbooks.com /teaching_stories.html (410 words)

	Activities, Games, and Stories for Teaching Social Skills Lessons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This ability to literally mine a story or experience for its meaning enables students to more easily recognize its relevance, while at the same time, it significantly enriches their comprehension and retention of the ideas being taught.
		If you were teaching a course on wilderness survival, you would not only teach your students what they can eat, you would also tell them what they must not, under any circumstances, ever eat.
		The wonderful thing about teaching the C skills is that virtually everything you do in the classroom offers an opportunity to learn about and practice them.
	www.choiceskills.com /01_social_skills.htm?referrer=Goggle (3158 words)

	Teaching feature stories from the newspaper (NiE)
		The story’s difficulty may be confined to the introduction where the writer attempts to attract readers with clever techniques that may go over the head of non-native speakers.
		Or, inexperienced readers may not realise that a long story may actually be organised into a series of relatively easy-to-read shorter sections.
		They should see that the main idea in a feature story may be delayed for several paragraphs as the writer tries to attract the reader's attention.
	www.bangkokpost.com /education/tchfeat.htm (1929 words)

	Teaching Stories I
		These stories show among other things that things are not always as they appear and often logic fails us.
		Many of these stories were originally told by great Sufi poets such as Mullana Jalaludin-E-Rumi, Hafiz, Sadi, but were retold as Mullah stories.
		Later when the elephant is grown up and the keeper wants the elephant to stay put all he does is to tie a small piece of rope on that leg and the giant elephant is held to the spot by his own mind.
	www.lifefocuscenter.com /teach.htm (2874 words)

	Robert Ornstein To Speak on Afghan "Teaching-Stories" and the Brain
		But they are designed to embody-in their characters, plots and imagery-patterns and relationships that nurture a part of the mind that is unreachable in more direct ways, thus increasing our understanding and breadth of vision, in addition to fostering our ability to think critically.
		"These are stories with improbable events that lead the reader's mind into new and unexplored venues, allow her or him to develop more flexibility and to understand this complex world better," he says.
		"Stories have been part of all cultures from time immemorial," says Ornstein, "but only recently has their psychological significance been discovered, especially in teaching-stories."
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/2002/02-147.html (445 words)

	Pat Brisson: Stories within stories Teaching Pre K-8 - Find Articles
		I wrote the story over a summer when my kids were still at home.
		There was lots of activity, total chaos with everybody going in and out of the house all the time, and yet I could still hear that girl's voice so clearly.
		The daughter is to read one every night at 8 p.m., and know that her mother is whispering along with the story.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3666/is_200205/ai_n9047440 (927 words)

	Ready to Print Resources to Accompany Mosaic and Strategies That Work!
		Teaching comprehension as a strategic process enables readers to make connections and move beyond literal recall.
		This book teaches us that we want our students to come to realize how important their thinking is when they read.
		These two books discuss how important it is for us to teach kids how to comprehend and how to think while they read.
	www.teachingheart.net /comprehe.html (806 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Monkeys and the Mango Tree: Teaching Stories of the Saints and Sadhus of India: Books: Harish ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Story-telling has always been the way that India's holy men, the saints and sadhus, taught their students the vital lessons of life.
		Stories provide a living environment for the lesson of each story, and they can convey sophisticated concepts in simple language.
		Abounding with powerful genies, scheming gods, and wise mystics, The Monkeys and the Mango Tree can be read as an exotic Aesop's Fables, as a source of classic wisdom, or as a simple and memorable introduction to the stories of the most spiritual civilization on earth.
	www.amazon.ca /Monkeys-Mango-Tree-Teaching-Stories/dp/0892815647 (437 words)

	teaching stories - Literature Network Forums
		The story has to do with Oedipus complex, the abnormal love to mother by a son,though I don't go along with that idea,yet it is a good story to discuss and show both Lawrence's way of thinking and Freud theory.
		It can be classified under stories about psychology,for the man in the story wants to kill someone just because of his eyes,whom he does not like.
		Also, by teaching the components of plot with short stories, students are better prepared to write their own fiction...but then, I suppose that's another course!
	www.online-literature.com /forums/showthread.php?t=18240 (1245 words)

	Amazon.com: The Monkeys and the Mango Tree: Teaching Stories of the Saints and Sadhus of India: Books: Harish Johari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Monkeys and the Mango Tree: Teaching Stories of the Saints and Sadhus of India by Harish Johari
		These stories are developed in the context of the saints and sadhus of this land of ancient religions.
		If you have read much similar material, the stories will strike you as satisfactory in their retelling but you will have seen much of the material before, often with much more sparkle to the story.
	www.amazon.com /Monkeys-Mango-Tree-Teaching-Stories/dp/0892815647 (1394 words)

	Teaching Every Student: Case Stories
		Randall teaches in the only middle school in a rural school district in Idaho.
		She teaches sixth grade math to students of all ability levels.
		She has taken several professional development courses focused on both math content and pedagogy to prepare her for this teaching assignment.
	www.cast.org /teachingeverystudent/casestories/cs3/index.cfm?page_id=62 (93 words)

	Teaching Short Stories
		In this book, different kinds of text types such as short stories, poetry, drama, non-fiction, novel are included and presented to the students with the study of literary terms and usage.
		The Ss are free to choose the text (short story); it can be from one of the texts they studied before in the lesson or another one that they like.
		Furhtermore they will be using the strategies they have learnt for the text type of “drama” (Informativity) by using dramatical strategies, effective dialogue patterns with the escort of the explanations-directions in parantheses(Situationality).
	www.ingilish.com /teaching-stories.htm (3145 words)

	National League For Nursing - Great Moments in Teaching
		Too often we do not take the time to share these stories with each other and with those who may be considering a career in nursing education.
		In the online course, Theories of Teaching and Learning, one method used to help students understand the teaching/learning process is to allow them to become facilitators of a threaded discussion.
		His area of interest was a topic I was teaching to the junior students.
	www.nln.org /Careers/greatmoments.htm (1547 words)

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