Integrating arts in teaching: Essential features
Module 1: Integrating storytelling in teaching
Dr Hema Ramanathan believes that education is a public discipline; teaching is a social act; and research in education should mirror these concepts. Her academic focus is on teacher education with an emphasis on diversity, especially language diversity, and English Language Teaching (ELT). She has taught English language and literature in India, Indonesia and Malaysia. After almost 25 years of teaching education at universities in the U.S., she moved to India to pursue her passion to work with teachers as a senior advisor and consultant with educational organisations. She has over 75 publications and 190 presentations and workshops on ELT and teacher education in India and the U.S. She is a series editor and author of an English textbook series for Grades 1 to 8.
Introductory module
Introduction to the module
Self-study PPT: What makes a good Story
Expert video
Audio: Albert Einstein and the lost ticket
Task: Tracing the arc of a story
Discussion on Task
Audio script: Albert Einstein and the lost ticket
Self-study PPT: The Art of Storytelling
Expert video: The Art of Storytelling
Task 1: Features of Storytelling
Audio: I am terrified (for Task 2)
Task 2: Response to a storyteller
Discussion on Tasks 1 and 2
Audio script: I am terrified (for Task 2)
Self-study PPT: Storytelling in a Classroom
Expert video: Storytelling in a Classroom
Audio: Sample story: Vesuvius blows its top (for task)
Task: Concepts through Storytelling
Audio script: Sample story: Vesuvius blows its top (for task)
Audio: Sample story: The water cycle
Task 1: Storytelling Lesson plan
Rubric for self-assessment
Task 2: Appreciate Self as Storyteller
Audio script: Sample story: The water cycle
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