STORYTELLING

Challenge and Selection

Vicente is now a teenager boy of sixteen years old that goes to NTU in Seville. He  didn’t like to study and had big problems with his grades in school since he was 10 years old. For  6 years, I have been going to his house to give him support classes and everything have changed  since 2011.

Storytelling is a tool that has helped me explain to Vicente why it was so necessary that he study  and do his school duties. Through stories of personal situations, I could gradually get Vincent to  engage in the obligation of having to perform his duties every afternoon and to study the reading  that corresponded to him. By means of stories I was achieving the goal that we had to reach.

Application

When I first sat in front of Vicente I didn’t know what to do neither what to tell him. He was a  little boy of 10 years old who just wished to be at the park playing football with his friends and  telling me that I was not going to be able to teach him anything. I was horrified, I did not see  myself able to help her mother with teaching. However, I remembered how I was at that age  and the methods my mother always used when there was something we did not want to do or  that we could not succeed with.

I began classes with Vicente decidedly, without giving him an option to give me a "NO" for an  answer, giving everything for granted and explaining each section of the lesson very gently. I  used stories from my past as a mechanism to make him understand that no one ever liked to  study and that it is always difficult for us to sit in a chair with the homework that we must finish  that afternoon. From stories of mine (of real stories) that had happened to me, not many years  ago, I told him what happened to me when I was 13 and had decided that I was cleverer and  better than my elders. I told him that since that June when they gave me my final notes and had  to repeat course I regretted every day because my Friends had advanced without me and I had  left behind alone. I had to make some new colleges and I realized at that time that pride was of  no use to me and I would not serve me to believe myself smarter than my teachers and parents.

Insight and Approach

Little by little, step by step Vicente started to believe in me and he began to understand that I  was not there to bother him or because I wanted to leave him without going to the park. As the  weeks and the months went by, he relied more on me. All that increased the day he received his  notes from the first evaluation and verified that thanks to his effort every day his reward was  there. After that first evaluation Vicente's motivation increased, he asked me to tell him more  personal stories that resembled him to continue showing that if I had been able to go up and  take my courses forward he could too.

To this day, I continue teaching Vicente and his sister Carmen who also wanted my help.  However, I would change something that I used with Vicente. One of them encouraged my  patience and my nerves that on some occasion caused Vicente to care more about me than his  own duties. Another thing I would change is the fact that I regret not having awarded him more  effort, because at 10 years I would have understood the facts more than the words I told him.


STORYTELLING Challenge and Selection Vicente is now a teenager boy of sixteen years old that goes to NTU in Seville . He did n’t like to study and had big problems with his grades in school since he was 10 years old . For 6 years , I have been going to his house to give him support classes and everything have changed since 2011 . Storytelling is a tool that has helped me explain to Vicente why it was so necessary that he study and do his school duties . Through stories of personal situations , I could gradually get Vincent to engage in the obligation of having to perform his duties every afternoon and to study the reading that corresponded to him . By means of stories I was achieving the goal that we had to reach . Application When I first sat in front of Vicente I did n’t know what to do neither what to tell him . He was a little boy of 10 years old who just wished to be at the park playing football with his friends and telling me that I was not going to be able to teach him anything . I was horrified , I did not see myself able to help her mother with teaching . However , I remembered how I was at that age and the methods my mother always used when there was something we did not want to do or that we could not succeed with . I began classes with Vicente decidedly , without giving him an option to give me a " NO " for an answer , giving everything for granted and explaining each section of the lesson very gently . I used stories from my past as a mechanism to make him understand that no one ever liked to study and that it is always difficult for us to sit in a chair with the homework that we must finish that afternoon . From stories of mine ( of real stories ) that had happened to me , not many years ago , I told him what happened to me when I was 13 and had decided that I was cleverer and better than my elders . I told him that since that June when they gave me my final notes and had to repeat course I regretted every day because my Friends had advanced without me and I had left behind alone . I had to make some new colleges and I realized at that time that pride was of no use to me and I would not serve me to believe myself smarter than my teachers and parents . Insight and Approach Little by little , step by step Vicente started to believe in me and he began to understand that I was not there to bother him or because I wanted to leave him without going to the park . As the weeks and the months went by , he relied more on me . All that increased the day he received his notes from the first evaluation and verified that thanks to his effort every day his reward was there . After that first evaluation Vicente 's motivation increased , he asked me to tell him more personal stories that resembled him to continue showing that if I had been able to go up and take my courses forward he could too . To this day , I continue teaching Vicente and his sister Carmen who also wanted my help . However , I would change something that I used with Vicente . One of them encouraged my patience and my nerves that on some occasion caused Vicente to care more about me than his own duties . Another thing I would change is the fact that I regret not having awarded him more effort , because at 10 years I would have understood the facts more than the words I told him .