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TEACHING IDEAS
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Teaching through Stories
Everybody loves a good story. Abe Lincoln won friends and political supporters through his story telling ability. Dale Carnegie taught people How to Win Friends and Influence People through stories. Christ, the Master Teacher, used stories extensively to teach truth.
Ten good reasons to tell a story include:
1) Everyone likes a story.
2) Stories enrich and captivate.
3) Stories answer questions, introduce principles, clarify and summarize.
4) Stories show vivid and inspiring ways to apply information.
5) Stories make principles easy to understand.
6) Stories require no risk from the participant.
7) Stories transcend educational and age levels.
8) Stories allow an oft repeated concept a new voice.
9) When stories are used well, they engage learners’ values and emotions.
10) Stories teach any size of group.
There are three types of stories: stories about others, personal stories and fables/parables/fiction. Each type of story has its strengths and can be an effective teaching tool. Stories about others teach how to apply values.
Fables/parables/fiction teaches by comparing truth to physical things or situations. Personal stories validate a concept or belief.
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