Training Facilitators

The Story Circle Model has many potential applications. It can be used as a teaching method in delivering required curriculum; for tutoring struggling readers; or for engaging community members where learning opportunities are limited.  Really, Story Circles can be offered anywhere and by anyone who has a sense of creativity and a love of learning.  Local facilitators are trained to deliver the model in their own environment – be it a school, community centre, in their private homes, or even under a tree! 

To get started, our VGLS leaders provide the theoretical foundation and the underlying value base of the teaching method before working directly with new facilitators in program implementation. Through modelling, the trainees can visualize as well as engage in program delivery, even at the training stage. It is during this stage that facilitators can see exactly how the model works – how the learners engage and how learning is reinforced. 

Once facilitators have had a chance to work with the Story Circle Model, they can support and train others, including their students, to start Story Circles of their own.  This “spreading” of the model is happening in Gambella, Ethiopia, and in the Kule Refugee Camp, also in Ethiopia.  And we want Story Circles to spread around the world!