Minicourse A: Nurturing young minds through creative storytelling
As part of the ‘Each Child, Every Child, and the Whole Child: IATEFL YLTSIG Webconference 2024’ event, YLTSIG is again offering three different minicourses for teachers around the world. The courses are 6 hours long, comprising of 3 sessions of two hours each.
Minicourse A: Nurturing young minds through creative storytelling is being facilitated by Manuela Kelly Calzini and Simona Stambazzi .
Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of storytelling with Manuela & Simona, seasoned CrESt storytellers. More than just a timeless human tradition, storytelling in schools proves to be a potent force for fostering imagination, empathy, and essential language skills.
Beyond mere entertainment, Manuela & Simona view storytelling as a portal to a world rich in knowledge and emotional intelligence. In this dynamic 6-hour course, participants will explore the art of integrating compelling narratives into the educational experience, sparking students' curiosity and cultivating a genuine enthusiasm for learning.
Through thoughtfully selected tales, participants will journey through diverse cultures, historical epochs, and perspectives, broadening their horizons and instilling a profound appreciation for diversity. Storytelling, as a vibrant tool for enhancing language proficiency, enables students to express ideas with eloquence and construct compelling narratives—a foundational skill set indispensable in academia and beyond.
Join Manuela & Simona in this transformative minicourse, where they will not only share captivating tales and stories but also provide invaluable strategies and techniques inspired by the most renowned storytellers in ELT education. Discover the power of storytelling to inspire, engage, and empower both educators and students alike.
Speakers: Manuela Kelly Calzini and Simona Stambazzi
Manuela is a Storyteller based wherever her flying carpet takes her in the world. She shares her time between Tuscany (Italy), Northumberland (England), and Geneva (Switzerland). She is a warm, engaging and lively storyteller, she tells stories in both English and Italian. Manuela has pursued her passion for storytelling in a wide variety of settings since 1992. She is a performer and a facilitator working in the field of EFL (English as a Foreign Language). She has worked in theatres, nurseries, schools, libraries, museums, book shops, festivals, and educational clubs. She loves finding stories to fit a special theme or occasion as much as putting together her own concoctions. She has made storytelling a core aspect of her teaching and uses stories to develop her own students' listening and speaking skills, critical thinking skills and creativity.
Manuela also leads workshops and training sessions for educators and teachers in Italian, Swiss and English schools. Her repertoire is drawn from traditional stories, fables and tales. She is fascinated by intercultural storytelling, and has learned many stories from all corners of the world. She encourages active and lively participation from her audiences and often uses movement and puppetry. She is an EFL teacher, trainer and author.
Manuela tells stories with children, teenagers and adults of all ages whether they are learning English or Italian as a foreign language or simply in their home language. She is particularly interested in the power of story to create connections between people.
More recently Manuela has joined the team of volunteers at the Hands up Project where she connects online with children in Gaza for weekly Saturday storytelling sessions.
Simona is a language teacher, a storyteller, the co-host of the storytelling podcast 'A Cornucopia of Tales and Tellers' and the co-organiser of ‘Storytelling in Education – Global Online Conference’. She fell in love with stories at a very young age, and she's been playing with her imagination ever since - creating stories, writing, telling, reading and now... sharing her passion!
Simona firmly believes in the power of stories: in educational settings such as language teaching and to pass on values and ideas, as well as for personal growth or simply as a nurturing and creative past-time.
As her students and storytelling friends know well, Simona tells stories everywhere the wind takes her: her language lessons are rich in stories to work on all skills and on language in a creative, fun and engaging way; she tells stories at online and in person events for kids, teenagers or adults; you can find her telling stories for a specific project… or even just for fun!
Through her Social Media page ‘Simona’s Stories’, Simona shares and organises all kinds of projects – from monthly challenges to work on storytelling skills and have fun, to monthly workshops for teachers and storytellers.
Important information:
Online registration for the mini courses closes on the 18 January 2024 at 9:00am UK time. The mini course will take place on Zoom Meeting and joining instructions will be sent to the email address used to register, after online registration has closed. Please keep an eye on your emails for joining instructions and don't forget to check your junk / spam mail box.
Don’t forget to also register for free attendance to the main webconference itself here: https://www.iatefl.org/civicrm/event/info?id=504&reset=1
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