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Introduction
"Skills Acquisition with Story-Telling" is a learning project for parents and children. The children are currently
from secondary schools / college. This project is designed to focus on learning both for parents and children. The scope of learning will slowly expand and evolve over time.
This project had a humble start on 3rd November, 2002 involving two families with their children, two of them, as story-tellers.
Background
To a large extend, it is observed that there are limitations of skills acquisition by children in schools. Education institution emphases more on information-acquisition to be given back in
examination, not so much skills-acquisition for greater creativity and human growth.
This story-telling project may seem similar to debating club or story-club in school. However, for this QuaSyLatic, from his many years of experience in experimenting with learning theories with management and adult, a radically different approach is used. For example, less emphasis is placed on competition, but team learning; use of systems thinking rather than logical thinking; use of dialogue
using facilitation instead of usual discussion approach, consciousness of mental models, human values at work (both children and parents during collaborative conversation) and acquisition of thinking tools for practice to further enhance skills and competencies.
Objectives
There are several objectives:
1.0 To promote a learning environment for both children and parents through story-telling, thereby increase the opportunity of communication and
experience / human values sharing
2.0 To particularly focus on children's skill acquisition in reading,
comprehension, articulating and presenting the key storyline to both parents and other children from a given story.
3.0 Over time, promote greater skill acquisition of story-tellers toward effective communication and team learning.
Approach
1. Printed story (usually about real life story of successful people from diversity of backgrounds) of 10-12 pages of A4 size given to the interested participating children, say 3-day or a week before the session.
2. Together with parents and other children, story-teller will be given 10 minutes to tell the story followed by 10-15 mins of collaborative conversation
facilitated by this QuaSyLaTic.
Incentive Scheme
As a way to motivate and encourage children to take part in the above project, the following incentive scheme is proposed.
Human Values Promotion as Criteria
The incentive scheme is designed to promote active participation by children in this project with point-system to reward
skills-acquisition, not competition.
This incentive scheme will be further modified and enhanced with increasing maturity of this project.
Incentive Scheme – Point System
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Case
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# Point
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Description
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1
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3
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Presentation of a story, with adults’
assistance
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2
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5
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Presentation of a story for fully 10 min.
with own-note of summary and without any assistance during
presentation.
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3
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8
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Presentation of a story for fully 10 min.
with own-note of summary and without any assistance. Note-taking
using some specific tool like mind-mapping.
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4
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15
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Presentation of a story for fully 10 min.
with own-note of summary and without any assistance. Presenter to
facilitate group conversation for 10 mins.
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5
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5
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Presentation of a case study (whereby
children given project assignment to do some research or survey.)
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6
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15
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Presentation of a case study with presenter
to facilitate group conversation for 10 mins.
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The above
incentive scheme is a proposal to parents whose children is / are participating
in the above project. It is left entirely to individual parents to
implement the above scheme to their own children. Parents could use the
score-points and convert to monetary value and any other form of
incentive.
Remarks
Currently this
QuaSyLatic is offering the above service free of charge to friends’
families. It is also appreciated if other families can take the
initiatives to do some organizing work like organizing a venue, inviting
other children through their own children, and arrange some refreshment
during the story-telling session.
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