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Roger Jenkins
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TEACH THROUGH STORY

Stories are powerful educators in any classroom, regardless of age. This highly practical, entertaining workshop focuses on

i) How to tell stories in engaging and age-appropriate ways.

ii) Different types of story and how they can be used to inspire, challenge, inform, provoke discussion (eg in language building, maths, character education, special needs, with troubled teens) - and in a way which does not preach.

iii) Strategies for during/post storytelling to achieve your objectives

iv) Where to find and how to adapt stories to suit different ages/progress levels

vi) Sharing personal stories

YOU AND YOUR PUPPET STORY PARTNER

This hands-on – or rather hands-in - glove puppet workshop will cover

a) the 4 essentials of puppetry

b) characterizing your puppet through voice/action

c) using your puppet as your storytelling partner

d) how to adapt/create stories for puppetry

Glove puppets will be provided

BONDING WITH YOUR CHILD THROUGH STORY

It’s bedtime and the lights are low (or off!) and your child says, ‘Tell me a story!” Do you feel lost for words? Afraid you’ll forget the story half way through? That you need to turn the lights up and get a book to read aloud?

If you’d like to make your child happy and tell them a story, but aren’t sure how, then let ROGER JENKINS show you how. You’ll find his participatory session encouraging, entertaining and above all - practical. The workshop covers:

 the difference between reading and telling (and why both are recommended)

 different ways of telling a story that build rapport and allow your child to participate

 how to be more expressive and spontaneous in your telling

 using stories to foster language skills, pass on values important to you

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THE STORIES EVERY STUDENT NEEDS TO KNOW
(AND HOW TO TELL THEM)

“Storytelling is one essential skill they never teach you in business school.” – Anita Roddick, founder The Body Shop

When you graduate, do you want to:

 get a good job?

 be fast-tracked for promotion?

 connect more successfully with people?

 get funding for your start up or sponsorship for your project?

 Inspire your team to support you and your vision?

Then you need to tell a story. And the better the story, and the better you tell it, the more likely you are to achieve your goals.

Leave your Ipads, smartphones, laptops outside! Just bring yourself and Roger Jenkins will help you discover how you can use the world’s oldest pastime to be a powerful and effective 21st century communicator.