I realized a long time ago that effective teaching is not about imparting knowledge. It’s about knowing how to tell a story.<\/p>\n
To make sense of that, it’s useful to ask yourself “Why do people like stories?” What is it about fictional people and their problems that we find so endlessly fascinating?<\/p>\n
Clearly there is no profit motive in hearing, reading or watching a good story. It usually doesn’t advance our career, or put food on the table. We do it because there is something enormously satisfying in the process of receiving a story well told.<\/p>\n
If you want your students to learn, place what you are teaching in the context of a good narrative.
\nThe important thing is for your learners be motivated to ask “And then what happens?”<\/p>\n
The rest is all detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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