In class
Welcome! We have created a toolkit that offers various methods to incorporate personal story-sharing into your teaching using What’s Your Story?
The What's Your Story? lessons are aligned to the Senior Phase CAPS General Outcomes for these subjects and are also appropriate for IEB schools.
The lessons have been categorised by subject and include two different categories for asking and listening and telling.
Our toolkit for each subject includes:
- Lesson plans
- Teacher training videos
- Presentations
- Handouts
- Keyword lists
- Audiovisual materials
Start here
As a starting point for all What’s Your Story? School activities, we strongly recommend that you begin by working through our short introduction module.
English
Asking and listening
Our five English lessons on asking and listening include practical activities, reflection exercises and video across three topics.
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Telling
Our five telling English lessons can be used as part of your English classes. The telling lesson plans build on the skills learnt in the asking and listening lessons.
Click hereLife Orientation
Asking and listening
Our five LO lessons on asking and listening explore development of the self; health, social and environmental responsibility; and constitutional rights and responsibilities.
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Telling
Our LO telling lessons build on some of the topics learnt in the asking and listening module.
Click hereCreative Arts
Visual arts
Asking and listening
These visual art lessons on asking and listening explore two-dimensional and three-dimensional artworks and develop visual literacy skills.
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Telling
The visual arts telling lessons use the skills learnt in the asking and listening section to help learners interpret their own visual world.
Click hereDrama
Asking and listening
We have put together five drama lessons on asking and listening that include exercises, reflective practices and skills development across five topics.
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Telling
Our telling lessons for drama can be used to deepen learners' experiences on the five topics explored in the asking and listening module.
Click here"As a teacher I love story-sharing. It helps you connect with your learners, get to know them better. It helps you understand why they behave the way they do."
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