But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and do not forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.” (Matthew 19:14)

Just a day after his lecture-workshop on Teaching English to Young Learners at the CPU Educational Media Center, Prof. Marco Brazil generously spent time with the kindergarten school pupils of the University Kindergarten on Monday January 8, 2018. He modeled how students can learn and appreciate a topic better through active story telling. Brazil is a Filipino child psychologist who has been teaching children in Japan for the past 20 years. Principal Hannah C. Siosan brought the development communication master to CPU Kindergarten School in her desire to introduce an active learning pattern of story-telling to the children.

As a well-experienced trainer and teacher all over Asia, Brazil gathered the children with their teachers in one room. The medium included a slide presentation of pictures and characters from storybooks he himself authored: The Monkey and the Turtle, The Rabbit and the Turtle, and The Hardworking Ant. He emphasized the story by acting out the scenes on each page. He involved the children by asking them to dance and sing children’s songs for the slide story. The children who have not encountered this kind of story-telling and learning process before, responded positively and enthusiastically. Siosan commented that “the integration of the new learning process in our medium of instruction is very important.”

Brazil shared that, for him, “teaching children is more glorious than teaching adults because it (education) is the foundation and bridge of the young mind to bigger universal knowledge that can never be learned without the child knowing the basic ideas in younger years.”

Brazil is a popular and regular presenter of Oxford University Press and MacMillan Education Asia children’s books.  He is internationally known as the Asia King of Games.