No matter what level or even subject I teach, I always want to teach the principles of storytelling. Storytelling has been a big part of my education and I have some opportunities to conduct an action research project in this area.
Jeff Parkin is the chair of my committee. I have been his TA for Screenwriting 241 for four semesters. I have a great opportunity to work within the classroom to enact an AR project.
Brother Parkin has often mentioned the difficulties students have with structure. This is the subject I am most interested in and accomplishing an AR project in this field will increase my
ability to teach storytelling.
A possible project would be to analyze previous scripts that come out of the class to see what aspects of structure students don't seem to understand, and I can interview former students to see what was most and least helpful. I will then create new assignments and restructure the syllabus and schedule for the class to put an emphasis on the structure of the story. I will only teach a handful of the lessons, but I will grade and give notes on every assignment, as well as meet with the students to help them one on one.
I also thought it may be interesting to go through the process of creating my own class that will prepare a storytelling troop for Timpanogos Storytelling Festival.
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I like that you are focusing your project on addressing a specific problem that you and others have noticed. I am not sure what to make of the information about the storytelling festival, are you suggesting this as an alternative context for your study or as an extension of the study you described earlier?
Sorry, the storytelling festival comment was just an incomplete thought I had while posting, but I thought I should put something down just so I don't forget the idea.
I have not idea if this would work and it may be too much for the focus of your project, but have you thought of the idea of digital storytelling? It's a relatively well-formulated idea, and it may work well with some of your ideas. Or maybe even just elements of it will work well?
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