Share Paper: Sharing Experiences: Developing Students' Skills Through Storytelling

  1. Barbara Green, Kaplan University, United States
  2. Teresa Kelly, Kaplan University, United States

Abstract: Storytelling in instructional materials, by instructors, and by students provides an effective platform for achieving and documenting student learning. This session demonstrates how the use of narrative based instructional materials that take students through the beginning, middle, and end of an assignment – much like a story – improves instruction. In addition, the session shows how sharing faculty stories and crafting assignments that allow students to tell aspects of their own stories empowers students and teachers.. As technology advances, students and teachers have or will have a variety of tools for expressing their rhetorical voice, including but not limited to ...