Children Tell Stories (50 Clock Hours)

If you have taken this course for graduate credit through ArmchairEd, you cannot take the same course for clock hours through ArmchairEdClockHours.

This course includes the newest research, links to current learning standards, and a variety of multicultural stories and resources that has validated the importance of storytelling in education.  Literacy is more effectively taught when the language arts, such as reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and visually representing, are seen as connected and equally important.  Storytelling is one of the best ways to teach all of these literacy skills.  When children engage in stories, they gain command over language, and increase their ability to understand detail and how stories hang together.  If students are better at telling stories, they become better at writing and reading them.  Course book also includes a DVD.

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What educators are saying about Children Tell Stories:

I’m glad I have started on this exploration of teaching differently.  I feel like it has renewed my love for teaching, back 18 years since I walked into my first classroom, as the teacher.  The authors and examples in both the book and on the dvd empowered me to take the first step and try, that is really all I expect from my students everyday, no matter what the task, yet it was a little scary, I admit.  I don’t think I have thought about that for a long time, about the scariness of trying something different and new.  Having experienced that feeling again, I have a lot more empathy for my students who come to school almost everyday and try something new!  I hope I can keep learning and practicing stories to share with my students, in those little breaks in our day.  I liked how it felt to be connected to them, and I want to feel that with every group of students I teach.  I want to know them, and I want them to know me.~~Kristine K.