Story Telling to Students:

Storytelling is a great tool that I use all the time. I worked with rural students to increase their  knowledge, to give them a wider perspective of carrier opportunities and challenges ahead.  They are students who does not have a proper access to internet and even do not know about  modern world. They were afraid of new challenges and understand themselves weak from  students who lives within the cities. Biggest problem was lack of motivation. It was more  necessary to work on this issue. I have to share experience with them via storytelling in the  form of stories and videos. I shared several experiences of successful people with them for  them. I had a list of several stories they are applicable for challenges such as some time of  physical weakness, lack of knowledge and others.

Application

I started interacting with them on daily basis. I made a list of challenges they were facing. I have  discussed this with their parents and teachers. Basically the last approach was getting repeated  from last few years. They were not integrating new learning specially the digital technologies  that were coming into the education. We as a team tried to incorporate these learning into the  syllabus. We appreciated their little efforts towards their progress.  There were experiences  shared with them for their efforts, their challenges. Stories of several successful leaders was  shown to them and several guest speakers were invited who were their seniors working good in  their carriers.  Upgrading with technology has given them preference.

Insight and results:

Students are taking greater part compared to past and their grades were improving. Their  competition was moved beyond to rural level. They were better prepared and aware about the  challenges; they were facing in the past.

