Grooming a Story

Why are some stories powerful, while others fall flat? Jim encourages us to tell stories with economy, empathy, universality, and tension–and offers plenty of example stories.

This excerpt was taken from a longer talk, Stories that Teach presented at Western Fellowship Teachers’ Institute 2019.

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CONTRIBUTOR: Jim Morrison

SERIES: Western Fellowship Teachers’ Institute 2019

• Amazing Animals
• Board: A Teacher Talks
• Challenging the Gifted
• Communicating an Anabaptist Worldview
• Concentration and Retention Development
• Curious Cultures
• Deliberate Devotions
• Discipline that Liberates
• Electronics: Friend or Enemy
• Enduring to the End
• Enhancing Bible Class
• History Workshops Part 1
• History Workshops Part 2
• History Workshops Part 3
• I? You? Us?
• Literature Workshops Part 1
• Literature Workshops Part 2
• Literature Workshops Part 3
• Methods of Evaluation
• Motivating the Lethargic
• Music Workshops Part 1
• Music Workshops Part 2
• Music Workshops Part 3
• New Teachers Pitfalls
• New Teachers Preparation
• New Teachers Presentation
• New Teachers Resources
• Novice Teacher Training Prelude
• Passing the Baton
• Procedures for Managing a Multi Grade Classroom
• Respect: Its Building Blocks
• Respect: Its Rewarding Influences
• Respect: Its Undermining Threats
• School Boards with Foresight
• School Boards with Hindsight
• School Culture: Accepting It
• School Culture: Shaping It
• School Culture: Understanding It
• School Culture: Using It
• Shepherding Adolescents
• Soaring in March
• Stories that Teach
• Succeeding in Art Class
• Taming the Bully
• Teaching Algebra
• Teaching and Dating, Boarding, and Socializing
• Teaching Classroom Respect
• Teaching Elementary Math
• Teaching Geography
• Teaching Phonics
• Teaching Special Education
• Teaching that Inspires
• Teaching Time Management
• The Seven Laws of Teaching
• Grooming a Story
• Don't Hoard It: Passing On the Gift