Storytelling comes with time and experience.  I've been teaching for well over 20 years.  I think you have to find where you can weave stories into your curriculum rather than forcing them in.  Creating stories is challenging at best, try to let them come naturally (organically some might say) or based on experiences.  

I do use quite a bit of humor in my storytelling, and perhaps need to be more careful and thoughtful with how I use it, especially with the diverse background of students that I have.  

I really like that storytelling can be done at any time and for such a variety of concepts.  I think it surprises students that so many different ideas can be simplified to things that they already know through stories and other ideas. 

Storytelling allows me to use a wide variety of experiences and examples to relate to my students from experiences that I have had.  Even if many of them have not had these same experiences, most can relate to them.  I am able to talk about more complex concepts in real-world ways, having had far more years to experience things than almost all of my students.  Humorous stories are particularly fun to tell and are intriguing to them, mostly because I think they want to know more about us as teachers and who we really are.  

I will try more independent learning to allow the students to be active in their learning and active! 

I plan on trying more interactive ideas in the classroom and researching all the different modalities available and dial in on even more creativity!! 

I liked keeping the "participation" portion of grading out and grading on their actual knowledge and learning.  I learned that it was very important to keep an update gradebook and grade things in a timely manner. 

1. Not being understanding or aware of their student's schedules and problems outside of class, and offering zero leniency. 
2. Moving on from a subject without making sure all students understand the lesson. 
3. Being late or unprepared for a class. 

What are you currently doing to keep students on subject when the lessons are online and they have access to the internet and apps during instructional time? 

I learned that it is important to be aware of our student's background knowledge and their understanding of the current material before moving forward.