Teaching through stories

Eleni Lagou teaches English as a second language and struggles to raise students into happy and confident citizens developing a great variety of soft skills. The way she has chosen to do so is through experiential learning and interactive teaching. Drama and creative writing, dialogue and discussion are at the heart of her teaching methods. She got to know drama in the department of English Language and Literature in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, but her drama skills and practice were advanced after completing her postgraduate studies in the Institute of Education of the University of Warwick in Drama and Theatre in Education. Apart from her teaching, she always tries to spread her knowledge and experience organizing workshops, the most highlighting of which is the drama workshop based on the story of «Prometheus Bound» in a group of twenty primary school children in China promoting Greek mythology and history.

It is a hands-on workshop designed for all teachers in Greece, at public, private and foreign language schools, private lessons teachers, directors of studies, school owners who include or would like to include stories in their lessons.

Learning is action.
In this workshop teachers will be students and feel rather than discuss about learning. Teachers will get in students’ shoes and experience a story through which they will learn different notions in English. “Teaching through stories” is a workshop that is based on the concept that learning can happen in every context using educational stories and drama techniques to teach even the most difficult notions in the second language. Drama and stories can teach a second language in a similar way to the native language as active participation of every learner and experiential learning are in the core of them.

Included in the fee:
• Participation in the workshop
• Certificate of Attendance
• Coffee Break