Leveraging the Power of Storytelling in Teaching Gen Y Students with Shorter Attention Spans (adv) - 1 day

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Thank you         1 day Leveraging The Power of Storytelling in Teaching Gen Y Students With Shorter Attention Spans The Problem   YouTube, iTunes, and candy crush are increasingly taking a toll on Gen Y students. These smart applications distract them from learning effectively. They also undermine a lecturer's ability to effectively teach and inspire. Teachers must therefore, adopt more engaging methods of teaching, or risk becoming irrelevant. Boon Seng, 22, is on the edge of dropping out. He is the first from his family with the prospect of going to college. He is a good guy, with a good smile. One problem; he is severely addicted. He loves to play MapleStory. To him, his teachers are boring. They speak in monotones; so he plays MapleStory to stay awake.   Potential Solution   One of the most effective ways to engage distracted students like Boon Seng is to use "Instructional Storytelling". This focuses on engaging and inspiring students by spurring interactive learning through the use of carefully constructed anecdotes, metaphors and narratives. Our workshop helps teacher to pick up tools, techniques and processes for finding and using stories to induce participatory learning and engagement in lecture rooms. When this is done properly, students sit on the edges of their seats and hang on to every single word the professor or lecturer says. David Steindl-Rast says, "Science, by its own definition, doesn't give us meaning. It just provides us with facts . . . Our lives gain meaning only when we tell our story." By using instructional storytelling, lecturers can help students gain more meaning from the concepts taught, as well as be inspired to apply them in their lives.   Purpose   To empower teachers with storytelling tools to build rapport, inspire greater participation and retention of academic concepts beyond the lecture halls.         Benefits   Enable instructors to breathe life into dry academic topics, Intellectually and emotionally engage students with provocative narratives, Inspire students to become active learners and seekers of knowledge, Generate greater trust, respect and admiration from students, Boost end of year staff reviews and ratings   Program Outline   Phase I: Identifying and Collecting Instructional Stories Anatomy of an effective story Neurology of storytelling 3 types of stories for teachers An instructional story roadmap How to sort, triage and catalog stories? Finding a compelling angle to pitch a story Rhetorical tools and devices for storytelling Phase II: Crafting and Refining Instructional Stories Crafting and polishing stories for precision Field testing of stories within safe zones 3 elements of a highly contagious story How to field-test stories in a no-fly zone? Phase III: Taking Stories from the Workshop to the Classrooms Weaving stories into lectures in subtle ways that keep them spell-bound How to deliver compelling openings that get them hooked to your lecture? Adapting and adding a fresh angle that in tune with the times Learning from luminaries in the training and facilitation business Delivering your signature stories to build goodwill with students   For whom   Teachers, T&D departments, Parents, Tutors, University Professors, Counsellors, Youth Program Managers, Lecturers, Educators, Educational administrators and those who work closely with Gen Y.   About the Trainer     Gideon F. For-mukwai is an award-winning speaker, trainer and facilitator with over 10 years of local and international experience from Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and North America. In 2004, he founded XtraMile Solutions in Singapore. Since then, he has trained over 16,100 executives from organisations such as Oracle, US Social Security Administration Department, Dell, DBS Bank, People 's Association, National University of Singapore, Siemens, Gillette, Singapore Armed Forces, (SAF) and Great Eastern Life. He has also provided guest-lectures at Morrison University in Nevada, USA. In the last three years, he has presented story-telling workshops for leaders from the U.S. Social Security Administration, Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce, U.S. Department of Veterans Administration, Rotary Club of Singapore, Washoe County Public Libraries in Nevada and several international professional organisations. In 2009, he was the Champion of the Inter-University Speech Competition at the University of Nevada, Reno. In 2005, he represented Singapore in District 80 International Speech Contest in Indonesia and emerged 1st Runner up from 5 South East Asia countries. In both cases and several other major contests, he credits story telling as the decisive factor that enabled him to out speak his competition. Gideon is a graduate from the Master's in Journalism programme at the Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno.

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