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Shaping Our Story: It is more than Just Numbers Telling The Story Presenter: Carrie Topliffe, Santa Barbara County Department of Child Support Services,

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1 Shaping Our Story: It is more than Just Numbers Telling The Story Presenter: Carrie Topliffe, Santa Barbara County Department of Child Support Services, ctopliffe@co.santa-barbara.ca.us

2 Why Tell Stories To Children? Improve listening skills Better attention span Improve oral skills Improve problem solving skills Develop inventive thinking Learn to sequence events Learn to express themselves

3 Storytelling in Teaching Sparking student interest Aiding the flow of lectures Making material memorable Overcoming student resistance/anxiety Building rapport between instructor and student

4 Make Stories Engaging Voice modulation Vivid descriptions Rhymes, riddles and repetition Simple props Music

5 Stories & Mental Health

6 Storytelling in Great Wisdom Traditions The Bible The Parables of the Old Testament The Christ’s Parables The Qur’ran and the Hadith The Prophet Mohammed’s Traditional Sayings Buddhism’s Jataka Fables – The Buddha’s Incarnations The Hindu Stories: the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Ramayana

7 Sources of Stories Current events History Television programs Classic literature or drama Personal experience Our own case studies

8 Stories & Child Support

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