After two years of trying, I still have not achieved the level of success I’d like in using storytelling in teaching – although I’ve gotten incrementally better at it.
I came across a great resource, Narrative and Learning Environments, which offers a great bibliography, as well as examples and resources.
On a similar note, here’s an interesting piece called What Storytellers Can Teach You About How to Learn Faster, in which author Scott Young writes:
… learning is very similar to storytelling. You need to give yourself vivid, memorable and emotionally descriptions of the information. When you learn with compelling metaphors, information seems to stick easily. Without metaphors, ideas are dry and slip through your ears without a second thought.