Interview with Margaret Read MacDonald, Pt. 2
Having traveled across the world, telling stories and publishing books on every culture from Panama to Thailand and everywhere in between, Dr. Margaret Read MacDonald is recognized as a leading expert on folktales, with the PhD to prove it. We asked her to sit down with us to discuss exactly where storytelling has taken her, how she began on that journey, and what she hopes to encourage educators to continue doing in their classrooms. In this episode, we discuss the theory on
Interview with Margaret Read MacDonald, Pt. 1
Having traveled across the world, telling stories and publishing books on every culture from Panama to Thailand and everywhere in between, Dr. Margaret Read MacDonald is recognized as a leading expert on folktales, with the PhD to prove it. We asked her to sit down with us to discuss exactly where storytelling has taken her, how she began on that journey, and what she hopes to encourage educators to continue doing in their classrooms. In this episode, learn about Margaret’s e
Teaching With Story: Classroom Connections to Storytelling
“We drew on our varied experiences to create this guide. We hope you will enjoy the tales in this book and that the strategies included will help you discover the same delight we have found using storytelling in the classroom!” It’s relatively easy to bring storytelling into the classroom, but once you’ve introduced the story, what happens next? The world renowned storytelling family of Margaret Read MacDonald, her daughter, Jennifer MacDonald Whitman (a classroom teacher) an
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