Harnessing storytelling to engage students

How can Star Wars help you to deliver a more engaging lecture? Unlike "The Force", storytelling is something you can readily harness to deliver a more engaging and structured student experience in your courses. In this workshop, Poon demystifies the idea of "storytelling", shares his story-centred process for designing engaging classes, as well as evidence that supports the success of this approach.

Eventually, he will stop talking, and facilitate a hands-on activity to guide attendees on implementing this storytelling framework in their own practice.

What to bring: Pen and paper, or your digital device of choice for taking notes during the hands-on activity.

Check out all upcoming Lighting Workshops for further teaching and learning professional development opportunities.

 

Speaker

Poon Leung headshot
Dr Poon Leung

School of Risk and Actuarial Studies, UNSW Business

Poon is an EF academic from the School of Risk and Actuarial Studies in the UNSW Business School. He describes himself as the "mad (but still ethical) scientist of education".