- A teacher must be one who knows the lesson or truth or art to be taught.
- Know the story thoroughly
- Make the story a part of you beforehand
- Story must be an intricate part of the person
- Truth of the story should be a part of the persons experience shared
- Story should be shared with a life-force as it is related to his students
- Storyteller must believe in what he is sharing
- A learner is one who attends with interest to the lesson.
- Story relates to an experience the listener has had
- Facial expressions, voice changes
- Proper eye contact and hand gestures, body movements
- Create mood or atmosphere of involvement
- That the listener could create their own story from the story they were told
- The language used as a medium between teacher and learner must be common to both.
- Communication brings understanding (vice versa). They will understand spirit to spirit
- The storyteller needs to know those to whom he is speaking. Keep language common to those you’ re talking to; be sensitive.
- If you love the people you talk to, they will respond. Communication flows out from Agape love.
- Right relationships to God will produce right relationship to people
- Be observant of the people around you
- The lesson to be mastered must be explicable in the terms of truth already known by the learner—-the unknown must be explained by means of the known.
- Start with things listeners can identify with (common experience)
- Pull in a known metaphor to clarify, build upon the theme of the story
- Use common experience to help understand principle, use imagination to apply principle to the secondary illustration
- Use everyday story to relate to Bible story
- Teaching is arousing and using the pupil’s mind to grasp the desired thought or to master the desired art.
- Involves imagination to keep their minds involved
- Story should flow and hold listener in a state of anticipation
- Build excitement with our words and gestures to arouse pupils’ mind
- Don’t tell the listener what to think about the story. A story can have more than one message. The Holy Spirit will make it grow
- Learning is thinking into one’s own understanding, a new idea or truth or working into habit a new art of skill.
- Imagination to remember, produce in their mind a mental picture-— to crawl into a story
- Story helps you remember and reproduce lesson–bring forth fruit (a change) in the person’s life
- Create a character to be identified with and to be followed, story requires a decision
- The test and proof of teaching done–the finishing and fastening process–must be a reviewing, rethinking, renewing, reproducing, and applying of the materials that has been taught, the knowledge and ideals and arts that have been communicated.
- The repetition of ideas in story (for example, in the parable of the sower’s seeds are sown and results are given 3 times) which is a way of reviewing
- The storytellers’ words are reproduced as pictures in the listener’s mind
- Telling a story is a way of reviewing concepts learned earlier
- A story is a way of linking old (familiar) ideas with new meanings
- By not stating the moral, the listener will be made responsible to find applications
- A story can correct a wrong idea and complete correct ones (for example, parable of Good Samaritan, Who is My Neighbor?)
