Oh The Stories..
After 31 years in food service to tend to collect a lot of stories, some Life Changing!
my student like to hear my stories also and I like to share them, they just might be put into a situation where it might help them out one day
Yes, although not in the food service, I have been in my field for 30 years and I have definitely found the countless stories I have, and frequently share with my students, are invaluable in helping students of all diverse abilities learn better. They can see the relevance of what we're discussing and that helps their total understanding of the materials always!
Rachel,
and this also helps them feel more comfortable with the reality that they will make mistakes but they can learn from them & move forward.
Ryan Meers, Ph.D.
I utilize many of my previous clinical experiences during lecture. I use both flattering and non-flattering stories. I find it puts the students at ease to know and hear about mistakes I have made. They become great learning tools. Students respect the raw truth from instructors.
Harold,
the stories really are a powerful way to engage the learners with the content.
Ryan Meers, Ph.D.
Stories help bring learning into reality for the student
Donna,
yes, this is a great reason to use stories, to show them that you will make mistakes & you will still survive.
Ryan Meers, Ph.D.
We can help them learn from old mistakes and avoid new mistakes, and sharing our own stories also gives them a sense of community and the realization that we all have stories in which we are not perfect heroes. If we can let students know that we ourselves have overcome struggles, they gain confidence that they can too.
Sarah,
this is great. They will make plenty of mistakes on their own & by sharing ours, we can maybe help them avoid some of the same. And we can help them learn from their own mistakes.
Ryan Meers, Ph.D.
Some of the stories that I tell my students are not the finer points in my career. After I tell them the story I tell them that if they have learned from my mistake then it was worth me making that mistake.
Rose,
and this helps them develop their own critical thinking skills as we explain our thought processes & how we reached the decisions we made.
Ryan Meers, Ph.D.
Right. I think the mistakes and errors of times past, makes it all more real. You give them the example of what happened when, how you handled it, what you really felt, and how you made it better or not. How to cope with these things is a life lesson that text books really cant express like "real life"
Dan,
yes, these stories can be a great way to get the students pumped up to enter the field.
Ryan Meers, Ph.D.
My students love to hear about my stories in our field. It gets them excited to start making their own stories.
Helen,
and these stories give them something to recall when they get out in the practice themselves.
Ryan Meers, Ph.D.
My students like to hear about experiences I have had. In some circumstances, they are able to understand concepts better by hearing about applications in the clinical setting.
bess,
this is very true & helps them to see how they too can learn & work through the challenges.
Ryan Meers, Ph.D.
I feel the stories give the students abilility to understand their instructor was once to student and nurtures empathy....
Yeah Some them good, some bad but all of them are mine!!!
