Case based learning. I love the idea! I find that I'm pretty good at telling stories and I'm very comfortable in front of a crowd, even when making a fool of myself, and so story telling works for me. I've seen the stories really captivate my students and bring home an idea or principle in a way that would not have been possible without the story. I do wonder though about the idea that every teaching needs to be couched in a story. I find that if I use any technique too much, even good ones or my favorite ones, it looses its ability to instruct. I think if I were to use a story everyday I would lose some of my students because they would become bored and the predictability would turn them away. I also worry that some of my students would not connect with the theme of my story and that would shut them out as well. So I love stories but I think that every day is too much and the variety needed could really be a drawback.
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I agree that we cannot always use a story as the basis for concept teaching, but must be well versed in many teaching strategies. When we as teachers become totally predictable, students tend to predict when to switch off and no learning occurs. I have appreciated that we have been introduced to so many learning theories and have been able to place them into our lessons, causing us to reflect and better our practices. We also become lazy if we were telling stories all the time, and the facts that we are trying to teach soom become distorted to make the story better. Great post.
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well, I think it is important to remember that doing case-based learning properly is difficult, so it is not being lazy to use case-based learning...Schank is a little radical and says that everything needs to be couched in a story...but I would counter that you really need to use a variety of approaches....eclecticism is a good thing as a teacher, so that students don't get bored or start trying to multitask in class because they think they know where class is going
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