Download or read book We re Born to Learn written by Rita Smilkstein and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential resource provides parents and educators of students of all ages with research-based, classroom-proven strategies for how to implement brain-compatible learning into your curriculum.
Download or read book Stage Improved Narratives written by Shani J.. Ellington and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In K-12 educational institutions, educators are dedicated to teaching students how to be active citizens in this democracy. However, while educators do their best to teach to the standards and prepare students for the rigors of academia, they sometimes shy away from parts of curricular materials and subsequent instruction, or generally exclude them in teaching. Rather than merely lecturing to students in a banking model approach, this project suggests unconventional teaching styles focusing on lesson plans with problematized, generative, and unconventional themes. Teaching controversial subject matter can be made into teachable moments that will expand the teachers' and students' knowledge, perspectives, and skill sets. The project begins with an example of controversial subject matter introduced in a classroom improperly in that it was not used to maximize students' educational experience. A discussion continues bridging the idea of constructive uses of teachable moments and instructional methodology. The project ends with a presentation on ImprovEd with quotes and feedback from graduate students about the inclusion of different approaches and ImprovEd in classroom instruction. The project was created using the book Teachers Act Up! by M. Cahnmann-Taylor and M. Souto-Manning (2010), which highlighted theories from Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed and Paulo Friere's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Also, the American Library Association (ALA) and Banned books: Challenging our freedom to read by Doyle (2007) were referenced in the development of the project. The author created lesson plans and developed a matrix with detailed information about a selection of banned and challenged books as well as controversial material. Conversations about banned books and challenged materials are integrated into the text to connect the readers with techniques for increased problem solving, critical analysis, and impactful democratic citizenship. The author came across many articles supporting direct confrontation of controversial subject matter in the classroom with students. Disposable crutches such as using music as an instructional tool are discussed in relationship to student learning in the classroom. The suggestions in ImprovEd will assist teachers to better facilitate discussions and transform their classrooms into a safe space for controversial issues to be explored further. The project advocates for educators to become compelled to integrate controversial materials and banned books into the classroom. Underneath the facilitation of an informed and responsible adult with purposeful lesson planning, the author believes ImprovEd or modifications of the material found within the project will be impactful for teachers and students alike.
Download or read book What is Narrative Therapy written by Alice Morgan and published by Gecko 2000. This book was released on 2000 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-selling book is an easy-to-read introduction to the ideas and practices of narrative therapy. It uses accessible language, has a concise structure and includes a wide range of practical examples. What Is Narrative Practice? covers a broad spectrum of narrative practices including externalisation, re-membering, therapeutic letter writing, rituals, leagues, reflecting teams and much more. If you are a therapist, health worker or community worker who is interesting in applying narrative ideas in your own work context, this book was written with you in mind.
Download or read book Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage and Screen written by Chris Head and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and engaging text covering sketch, sitcom and comedy drama, alongside improvisation and stand-up, brings together a panoply of tools and techniques for creating short and long-form comedy narratives for live performance, TV and online. Referencing a broad range of comedy from both sides of the Atlantic, spanning several decades and including material on contemporary internet sketches, it offers all kinds of useful advice on creating comic narratives for stage and screen: using life experience as raw material; constructing comedy worlds; creating comic characters, their relationships and interactions; structuring sketches, scenes and routines; and developing and plotting stories. The book's interviewees, from the UK and the USA, feature stand-ups, sketch comics, improvisers and TV comedy producers, and include Steve Kaplan, Hollywood comedy guru and author of The Hidden Tools of Comedy, Will Hines teacher and improviser from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and Lucy Lumsden TV producer and former Controller of Comedy Commissioning for BBC. Written by “the ideal person to nurture new talent” (The Guardian), Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage & Screen includes material you won't find anywhere else and is a stimulating resource for comedy students and their teachers, with a range and a depth that will be appreciated by even the most eclectic and multi-hyphenated writers and performers.
Download or read book Presentation Zen written by Garr Reynolds and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKI Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the Net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.
Download or read book Constructing Narratives written by Susie Brown and published by R.I.C. Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Staged Narratives narrative Stages written by Enrica Ferrara and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Book of Plots written by Loren Niemi and published by Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Incorporated. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the space of the thirty-some years I have called myself a storyteller, the balance of what I tell has shifted from children''s stories and traditional folk and fairy tales told in schools, churches, and community centers to stories drawn directly from my own experiences. But I also understand that by adapting and re-imagining traditional folk and fairy tale material, you can provide a point of entry for contemporary listeners to experience, as psychologist Bruno Bettelheim has suggested in his book The Uses of Enchantment, the continuing power of the old stories to speak to the imagination and heart. Wanting to make a connection between the older stories and our existential circumstance, I sought to re-interpret folk and fairy tales by placing them in a more contemporary context. The confusing Black Forest of the Brothers Grimm became the crowded shopping mall. Rapunzel''s mother sought a more familiar drug than the painkilling herbs of the witch''s garden. I also created stories that were in the style of the older folk and fairy tales. One featured a lowly cucumber plant that, after consuming radioactive water and junk-food compost, became the glowing, green Godzilla of pickles. Another featured a boy named Jack, who found fame and fortune racing inner-city cockroaches. In creating and performing original stories and reimagined folk tales, as well as teaching stories to students of all ages, it has become clear to me that how we tell the story, as much as why, is at the very heart of the art. By "how," I do not mean how we use voice and gesture, etc., but how we organize stories to get across their meanings to an audience. There are two central facts at the heart of the oral story. The first is that it begins when the teller begins and ends when the teller ends it, though I could argue that it actually ends when the audience dismisses it. This is fundamentally different from the written story, where a reader can go back and read the same words again. With the spoken word, we are in the moment. Even if we could ask the teller to go back and say something again, the very act of asking would alter the way in which the information is conveyed to us. This leads directly to the second basic fact: the act of telling is an expression of the relationship of the teller to the audience. We always tell to someone, even if it is to ourselves. It is incumbent upon us to recognize that the choice we make about how we tell a story to a given audience is as much about our understanding of who that audience is as it is about what we are saying to the audience. It is this crucial understanding of how the narrative is shaped and the choices we make as tellers to share a particular version of a story with a particular audience that I wish to explore with you. Whether we are working with a live audience in performance or with an imagined one while typing away on our laptops, the creation of compelling fiction and non-fiction begins with how to frame the story. This book is for storytellers and would-be storytellers, whether you call yourself a writer, minister, politician, journalist, lawyer, teacher, therapist, or street-corner b.s.''er. Whatever the name, the benefit you derive from the application of this material to your creative process will come from understanding how narrative is shaped and making conscious decisions about shaping that narrative content. This book was developed in workshops and classes I''ve conducted with storytellers and writers since 1986. In the course of those years, this teaching practice has refined my thinking and improved my ability to help participants discover new approaches to creating powerful, authentic, and entertaining stories. Much of what I say will be framed around the creation of stories as oral performance, but the concepts and exercises I suggest apply to written material as well. Whether the stories are oral or written, this book is about three things: the choice of an appropriate narrative form to provide the story''s structure, the choice of an appropriate point of view and timeframe to support the story''s emotional arc, and how those choices help or hinder the transmission of the meaning of the story to an audience.
Download or read book Narrative Intervention Programme written by Victoria Joffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book improves the understanding and telling of stories in secondary school students and young adults. Specifically designed for older children and young adults, this practical language programme was created by a specialist speech & language therapist with input from secondary school teachers and students. It focuses on enhancing the understanding and expression of stories in students aged from 8 to 18 with language and communication difficulties, and aims to: create an awareness of how storytelling can be used to enhance learning in school and social interactions in school and home environments. It facilitates storytelling. It enhances the joy and enjoyment in telling stories. It identifies different types of narratives and provide examples for each type. It encourages effective listening and attention skills. It examines different means of making story production more interesting through vocal variety, body language and print. It encourages the use of the story planner in planning and structuring essays in the classroom and for homework. Dr Victoria Joffe is a specialist speech and language therapist and senior lecturer in developmental speech, language and communication impairments in the Department of Language and Communication Science at City University, London. Victoria runs various workshops for PCT's, LEA's and schools on child speech disorder, evidence based practice in speech and language therapy and collaborative practice in education and provides training for therapists and teaching staff on working with children and young adults with speech, language and communication needs in education. Victoria is currently involved in a large scale intervention project funded by the Nuffield Foundation on enhancing language and communication in secondary school children with language impairments on which this programme is based.
Download or read book Stages of Reading Development written by Jeanne Sternlicht Chall and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Forum written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current political, social, scientific, education, and literary news written about by many famous authors and reform movements.
Download or read book Storytelling with Data written by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-10-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't simply show your data—tell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples—ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation. Storytelling is not an inherent skill, especially when it comes to data visualization, and the tools at our disposal don't make it any easier. This book demonstrates how to go beyond conventional tools to reach the root of your data, and how to use your data to create an engaging, informative, compelling story. Specifically, you'll learn how to: Understand the importance of context and audience Determine the appropriate type of graph for your situation Recognize and eliminate the clutter clouding your information Direct your audience's attention to the most important parts of your data Think like a designer and utilize concepts of design in data visualization Leverage the power of storytelling to help your message resonate with your audience Together, the lessons in this book will help you turn your data into high impact visual stories that stick with your audience. Rid your world of ineffective graphs, one exploding 3D pie chart at a time. There is a story in your data—Storytelling with Data will give you the skills and power to tell it!
Download or read book How to Tell a Story written by The Moth and published by Crown. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The definitive guide to telling an unforgettable story in any setting, drawing on twenty-five years of experience from the storytelling experts at The Moth “From toasts to eulogies, from job interviews to social events, this book will help you with ideas, structure, delivery and more.”—CNN LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD Over the past twenty-five years, the directors of The Moth have worked with people from all walks of life—including astronauts, hairdressers, rock stars, a retired pickpocket, high school students, and Nobel Prize winners—to develop true personal stories that have moved and delighted live audiences and listeners of The Moth’s Peabody Award–winning radio hour and podcast. A leader in the modern storytelling movement, The Moth inspires thousands of people around the globe to share their stories each year. Now, with How to Tell a Story, The Moth will help you learn how to uncover and craft your own unique stories, like Moth storytellers Mike Birbiglia, Rosanne Cash, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Gilbert, Padma Lakshmi, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Tig Notaro, Boots Riley, Betty Reid Soskin, John Turturro, and more. Whether your goal is to make it to the Moth stage, deliver the perfect wedding toast, wow clients at a business dinner, give a moving eulogy, ace a job interview, be a hit at parties, change the world, or simply connect more deeply to those around you, stories are essential. Sharing secrets of The Moth’s time-honed process and using examples from beloved storytellers, a team of Moth directors will show you how to • mine your memories for your best stories • explore structures that will boost the impact of your story • deliver your stories with confidence • tailor your stories for any occasion Filled with empowering, easy-to-follow tips for crafting stories that forge lasting bonds with friends, family, and colleagues alike, this book will help you connect authentically with the world around you and unleash the power of story in your life.
Download or read book Improving Teaching and Learning In the Core Curriculum written by Kate Ashcroft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can teachers respond creatively to the demands of the literacy and numeracy hours? Can children be taught to behave like scientists? How can teachers remain reflective and independent during this period of government direction?
Download or read book The soldier of three queens a narrative of personal adventure written by Robert Henderson (of the 12th Lancers.) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comprehension Questions for 3 Year Olds written by PLD Organisation Pty. Ltd. and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of questions developed to instruct the comprehension skills of 3 year-olds.
Download or read book A Narrative History of Remsen New York written by Millard Fillmore Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
