Key Classroom Takeaway: The World Is Small and Deeply Connected

Table 4.1: Story-Based Course Design

Subject Focus

What subjects can practice storybased curriculum? How do teachers integrate stories in their curriculum? How do students engage with and share stories through projects and assignments?

Literature Throughout the course, students focus on the power of the story. Stories connect people, reflect people’s shared experience, reveal themes that impact people, and help people access truth.

World Religions In this course, students learn to ask good questions across religious and cultural lines. They explore from a place of curiosity and goodwill as they develop as global community members and leaders.

Economics Across both micro- and macroeconomics, the class explores how people attempt to satisfy unlimited wants and needs with limited resources. This is true for individuals, for institutions, and for nations. This course introduces the knowledge, skills, and resources to make the best choices possible.

How to Share Stories in the Online or Blended Classroom

Students:

• Hear stories

• Explore authors who affirm the need for storytelling • Share personal stories on focused prompts through writing and discussion

• Author original essays, vignettes, short stories, and poems

Students:

• Hear from course authors and guests about how stories pass on cultural traditions

• Listen to stories from different perspectives through readings and podcasts • Share their own stories through class activities and writing prompts

• Produce podcasts on reflective prompts about world religions

Students:

• Answer reflection questions designed to tie the theory of economics to reallife, everyday practices

• Analyze authentic and personal situations from the context of the class

• Create budgets based on their daily routines and design projects about their choices, values, and goals