Religious education -- Teaching methods; Visual education
_Picture-work._--Do you use blackboard illustrations? What
other objective helps?
_Examples._--What stories have you found especially helpful?
_Purpose._--What is your purpose in using stories in the
Sunday-school?
_Principles._--Do you succeed in having such unity in the lesson
that the stories all contribute to one main thought? Mention five
requisites for a good story-teller.
Mention five qualities in a good story.
To these questions fifty-eight replies were received. Very few,
however, gave the ages of the children, and the smallness of the number
of replies--which after all is by no means discouraging--tends to
vitiate the data as bases for generalization.
Space forbids giving more than a single group of typical answers. Some
of the most helpful of the suggestions have been embodied in the
foregoing. Further replies from thoughtful teachers will be welcome.
_Question_--Mention five requisites for a good story-teller.
_Answers:_
Sympathetic voice, manner, and face.
More knowledge of the subject than one wants to use.
The teacher must be interested, bright, imaginative, clear in
thought and expression.
Clear apprehension of the point to be made, clear knowledge of the
subject, understanding of the peculiarities of his hearers, tact in
making application, and dramatic power.
Power in word-painting--with a sense of perspective.
Unconsciousness of self.
A gift for mimicry.
Graphic description.
Sympathy with children.
Power to hold attention and keep to the main thought.
Animation, personal magnetism, originality, wit.
Conciseness, force.
Pleasant manner.
Ability to repeat a story without hesitation.
Power to put one's self into the time, circumstances, etc., of the
story.
Love of story-telling.
Quiet manners.
Gestures, good voice.
Small [easy?] words.
Ability to make the children help tell the story, by making them
gesture, point, express sorrow, surprise, etc., and answer
questions.
A good story-teller asks intensely interesting questions at exactly
the right point.
A passage from Herbart forms a fitting close to this study:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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