Power of a Story in Teaching Learning Process

It was one Monday morning. I had gone for inspection to the class of four-year olds. The children were at their naughtiest and loudest best. The teacher sitting on her chair was going through the worksheets of children. When the decibel level of the noise by children used to become too high she would tap loudly her duster on the table. A few seconds silence and pandemonium were starting again. It was fun watching children who were defeating all efforts of the teacher for making them do their work quietly. The teacher was nearly at the end of her patience. She had made even a quick round of children but of no avail. I excused myself from the teacher and sat in the middle of children and said,
“Come on let me tell you a story!”
One sentence and their eyes started shining with attention. No tapping of duster or running after the children. They were all ears
Such is the power of the story telling in class, students young or old, all crave for it. From maths to history and from languages to Value Education all subjects fit themselves into this method of the story telling.
As a learning method, stories by their very charm of forming a pleasant association and links in brain tend to stay fresh for almost the whole life. Even after 50 years the only classes that the students will remember will be the ones when any story was told. The concepts that will have the longest memory will be the ones associated with stories.
For leaving a pleasant memory in the minds of your students for being a great teacher, become a great story teller.
Nevertheless, it needs preparation and a habit of reading. Only then you can be ever equipped to be a great teacher.

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