Enriching teaching through storytelling and virtual reality

A dissemination meeting was recently held at the Catholic Institute, Floriana, regarding ‘Story Changers – Enhancing Pupils’ Skills and Enriching Teaching Methods Through Storytelling and Virtual Reality’ – an Erasmusplus-funded project running from 2020-2023.

Ruth Mansueto, project coordinator from Mater Boni Consillii St Joseph School, Paola, explained that the school was motivated to join the project to continue sharing good practices and pedagogies between different countries as well as to help develop the teaching methods to help students develop skills needed for the 21st century and their well-being, according to the Six Cs of Education for Student and Society, by Michael Fullan (2014).

The schools participating in the project from Malta, Greece, Cyprus, France and Spain formed a consortium to develop an innovative digital teaching package for teachers in the use of VR and storytelling to promote diversity, respect and tolerance at school, enhancing key social skills such as empathy, emotion management and problem solving.

After conducting desk research about the value of storytelling and in the use of VR, the consortium produced a ‘curriculum and methodological guide’...