The Power of Storytelling in Communicating Ideas

Join us for our February professional development session, “The Power of Storytelling in Communicating Ideas.” In this session, teachers will discover resources and methods to engage students in the writing process and help students develop skills within the “communicate ideas” domain of the Asia Society’s global competency framework. We’ll move beyond the five-paragraph essay with methods such as editorial writing, podcasting, spoken word, and personal memoirs. Teachers will receive resources from The New York Times, The Pulitzer Center, Newseum Ed, Edutopia, and other organizations so they can implement these methods in their classrooms. This session is geared toward middle and high school teachers of all disciplines, particularly those in Language Arts and Social Studies. Teachers will also have the opportunity to earn CEUs/contact hours for their participation.

Presenters Include:

• Erika Lundstedt, Global Education Manager at the World Affairs Council of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky
• Kate Currie, Educator and Executive Director at MAKETANK Inc.
• Spring Starr Pillow, Director of School Programming at WordPlay Cincy

Learning Outcomes

Teachers will be able to

• Describe how communication skills contribute to the development of global competency.
• Describe how different methods of communication can help students address different audiences and increase student engagement.
• Identify educational resources that they can use to bring different communication skills and methods into the classroom.
• Identify at least one concept and/or unit in which they would be able to implement a new method of communicating ideas and describe how the selected method will achieve content goals and allow for student choice.