REFLECTION- STORYTELLING   AS A TOOL FOR POTENTIAL DISCOVERING AND DEVELOPMENT 

 Bankole Ismail 

 Challenge and Selection 

 As a teacher and coach , storytelling has been one of the indispensable tools and techniques I use al the   time to help my students discover and develop their potential in such a way that they are able to pattern   their profession in line with their potential and passion .   Coaching students and adults who came out from   inner city schools were they never had the privilege of having a school guidance or career counsellors   could be very challenging . Many of these people came out from schools doing things they do n’t like or   have passion for . The most pathetic part is the fact that they become a victim of workplace by getting   demoralized and demotivated as a result of the fact that they work with their own weakens instead of   using their strength to work . I saw the need to help them discover their strength and how they can direct   same to for optimal opportunity that could single them out in career path and job placement using   storytelling as a tool to inspire them and inform them on how they can use their natural empowerment   and talent to turn their lives around in job search and in workplace .   When I work with students , I share   stories of different stores to help them discover themselves and identify inherent potentials and talent   that can be channeled into a career or hobbies .   Often they think those skills are just what is different   from what they need to become in life . Thus , the stories shared help them to visualize the strength and   strategize and help nurture those abilities not just for academic purpose but for accomplishments in life . 

 Application 

 In my story telling strategy for design thanking for innovation , I tell students story of focusing on individual   strength and abilities and making them recognize each person as a unique being and indivisible entity with   distinctive ability and can not be found even in identical twins . One of the most inspirational story I used   in my class is the Story of Olympic Competition in the Animal Kingdom .   In my story telling strategy , there   was a time when all animals decided to embarked on competition and a Committee was set up to sample   opinions from all animals on what would be the type of sport all animal should participate on . Though   every animal has its strength and weakness , but the outcome of the survey showed that , each animal   consulted recommended where they have strength . For instance , when fish was consulted , it   recommended that swimming should be part of the game but for lion , it recommendation was roaring   while elephant was trumpeting . The story ended up with the fact that the game could not hold as every   animal wanted the game to focus on area of strength and ability . Each animal actually has area of   specialization . Thus was an aberration for a fish to be sent to learn in Bird school , as fish ca n’t fly .    I made   the students to understand the simple principle of success and failure in life . That if one would discover   and develop what flows naturally from within , he would succeed effortlessly . 

 Insight and Approach 

 The eye opener from this insight and approach was wow ! One of the students who was very gifted in   music but has a university degree and Oracle Certificate in Computer Science was so inspired and   motivated to the point that , he jumped up and had a heavy handshake with me . He has been searching   for job for years and nobody was calling him for one . He got himself and resolved he was going to pursue   music as a career . A few weeks from that time , he has started sending proposal to teach music in schools 

 and churches in the city and the wages were huge . This worked really well for him . Few years later , he   had gone for post graduate course in Music in University of Lagos , Nigeria . I think the storytelling had a   great impact on people , a lot of my students get lesson driven home to their faculty through storytelling   and bring out the giant in them and thus helping to rebrand their lives with the victual impact they reflect   on . 

 This course , Design Thinking for Innovation has also in a great deal impact and inspire me to see this tool   in a broad dimension . When I did that in the pass , it was not tool professional , but now , with the help of   this course , I can diversify and demystify more inspiring and visual story to get students and people   succeed in life . I am a good thinker before this time , but taking this course is an invaluable asset to me   and I am so indebted to Coursera . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: Bankole Ismail
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
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### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: REFLECTION- STORYTELLING   AS A TOOL FOR POTENTIAL DISCOVERING AND DEVELOPMENT 

 Bankole Ismail 

 Challenge and Selection 

 As a teacher and coach , storytelling has been one of the indispensable tools and techniques I use al the   time to help my students discover and develop their potential in such a way that they are able to pattern   their profession in line with their potential and passion .   Coaching students and adults who came out from   inner city schools were they never had the privilege of having a school guidance or career counsellors   could be very challenging . Many of these people came out from schools doing things they do n’t like or   have passion for . The most pathetic part is the fact that they become a victim of workplace by getting   demoralized and demotivated as a result of the fact that they work with their own weakens instead of   using their strength to work . I saw the need to help them discover their strength and how they can direct   same to for optimal opportunity that could single them out in career path and job placement using   storytelling as a tool to inspire them and inform them on how they can use their natural empowerment   and talent to turn their lives around in job search and in workplace .   When I work with students , I share   stories of different stores to help them discover themselves and identify inherent potentials and talent   that can be channeled into a career or hobbies .   Often they think those skills are just what is different   from what they need to become in life . Thus , the stories shared help them to visualize the strength and   strategize and help nurture those abilities not just for academic purpose but for accomplishments in life . 

 Application 

 In my story telling strategy for design thanking for innovation , I tell students story of focusing on individual   strength and abilities and making them recognize each person as a unique being and indivisible entity with   distinctive ability and can not be found even in identical twins . One of the most inspirational story I used   in my class is the Story of Olympic Competition in the Animal Kingdom .   In my story telling strategy , there   was a time when all animals decided to embarked on competition and a Committee was set up to sample   opinions from all animals on what would be the type of sport all animal should participate on . Though   every animal has its strength and weakness , but the outcome of the survey showed that , each animal   consulted recommended where they have strength . For instance , when fish was consulted , it   recommended that swimming should be part of the game but for lion , it recommendation was roaring   while elephant was trumpeting . The story ended up with the fact that the game could not hold as every   animal wanted the game to focus on area of strength and ability . Each animal actually has area of   specialization . Thus was an aberration for a fish to be sent to learn in Bird school , as fish ca n’t fly .    I made   the students to understand the simple principle of success and failure in life . That if one would discover   and develop what flows naturally from within , he would succeed effortlessly . 

 Insight and Approach 

 The eye opener from this insight and approach was wow ! One of the students who was very gifted in   music but has a university degree and Oracle Certificate in Computer Science was so inspired and   motivated to the point that , he jumped up and had a heavy handshake with me . He has been searching   for job for years and nobody was calling him for one . He got himself and resolved he was going to pursue   music as a career . A few weeks from that time , he has started sending proposal to teach music in schools 

 and churches in the city and the wages were huge . This worked really well for him . Few years later , he   had gone for post graduate course in Music in University of Lagos , Nigeria . I think the storytelling had a   great impact on people , a lot of my students get lesson driven home to their faculty through storytelling   and bring out the giant in them and thus helping to rebrand their lives with the victual impact they reflect   on . 

 This course , Design Thinking for Innovation has also in a great deal impact and inspire me to see this tool   in a broad dimension . When I did that in the pass , it was not tool professional , but now , with the help of   this course , I can diversify and demystify more inspiring and visual story to get students and people   succeed in life . I am a good thinker before this time , but taking this course is an invaluable asset to me   and I am so indebted to Coursera .
### Output: 