Transcript EXCELerate Your Teaching

EXCELerate
Your Teaching
Adult Sunday School Teacher
Training Workshop
Welcome
• Four challenges you face in teaching adults?
• Some things that you would like to take home
with you from this conference?
• Some ideas that you have discovered or that
you believe will help you to EXCELerate your
teaching and leadership?
EXCELerate Your Teaching
Question:
How do we effectively teach
adults in our Sunday School
Classes?
We Must Desire To Grow As A Teacher
• Do you believe you can become a better
teacher?
• Do you desire to be a better teacher?
• Is there room for growth and change in your
teaching and the leadership of your class?
We Must Desire To Grow As A Teacher
• Great teachers and leaders are life-long
learners.
– (Acts 18:26)
– (2 Tim. 1:6)
– (Exodus 18:14-27)
– Apollos
– Timothy
– Moses
We Must Know Where We Want To
Take Them
• As Sunday School Teachers there is a privilege,
purpose and power in our teaching.
• The privilege of our teaching is partnership with
God in His Kingdom.
• The power in our teaching is the Word of God
and the work of the Holy Spirit.
• The purpose of our teaching is life
transformation.
We Must Earn The Right To Teach
Them
• Sunday School is only
1/3 Educational
Reaching
Teaching
Ministry
We Must Earn The Right To Teach
Them
• Love opens the door.
• A Sunday School Teacher is the shepherd of a
small flock.
• A Sunday School Teacher is a servant leader
and fellow traveler on the journey.
We Must Seek To Better Understand
How People Learn
• Not everyone learns or processes information
the same way.
• As a teacher, the better you understand your
student(s) the more effectively you can teach
to them.
As A Teacher Of Adults We Must
Remember …
• Adults decide for themselves what is important to
be learned.
• Seek to validate the information based on their
beliefs and experience.
• Expect and desire what they are learning to be
immediately useful.
• Have much experience upon which to draw and
may have fixed viewpoints.
• Often have significant ability to serve as a
knowledgeable resource to the teacher and
fellow learners.
We Must Seek To Better Understand
How People Learn
• People learn and process information in
different ways.
• Each of us learn and process information in
our own special way.
• People take in information through our sense
– How people see, hear, feel and move through
their world.
We Must Seek To Better Understand
How People Learn
• People generally tend to display one of the three
following as their dominate learning style:
– Visual learners rely on pictures.
– Auditory learners listen carefully to all the sounds
associated with learning.
– Kinesthetic/Tactile learners need to physically do
something to understand it.
We Must Seek To Better Understand
How People Learn
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Visual
Verbal
Natural
Logical
Musical
Reflective
Relational
Physical
We Must Seek To Better Understand
How People Learn
• All of your learners will not be at the same
level of learning in your class.
Exposure
• Levels of Learning
Recall
Recognition
Application
Lifestyle
We Must Vary Our Methods And
Adopt Strategies That Connect
• Context: What does it say? What does it mean? Who
wrote it? Who was the writer writing to? Why was he
writing? What is the overall theme of the book?
• Bridge the Context: What does it mean for us today?
Are there promises to claim? Commands to obey?
Truths to believe? Attitudes, behaviors or values to
change?
• Application: How do I apply it to my life and to the
lives of my class members?
• Vary your teaching methods to connect with all of your
learners.
Powerful Tools for Study
• Study Bible – Provides study notes, cross references,
background information etc.
• Exhaustive Concordance – Provides word meanings in
original languages
• Topical Bible – Arranged by topics, great for cross
references.
• Bible Dictionary – Good for background material.
• Commentaries
• Bible Study Software
• On-line Study Resources
P E C
• Prepare – Preparing the teacher.
• Encounter – Preparing the teaching/ministry
session.
• Continue – Continuing the lesson.
Crafting a Strong Teaching Plan
• Require a time investment
• Give attention to content and presentation
• Call for a variety of teaching methods and
learning activities.
• Identify how the session ends.
• Have time segment estimates.
• Begin strong and give direction.
EXCELerate
• Our classes contain people at various levels of
biblical understanding, they bring a variety of
learning approaches to the class, and they come
each week with various needs, struggles and life
situations.
• Let’s capitalize on the privilege to represent our
Savior and the challenge to use the gifts,
abilities and tools that God has given us to love
and lead them into a closer walk with Him!”
The information shared in this conference was compiled
and adapted from the following resources:
• Teaching Adults – A Guide for Transformational
Teaching, by Rick Edwards
• The Six Core Values of Sunday School, by Alan Taylor.
• Sunday School Leadership Development Course ,by Tim
Smith.
• Training Your Sunday School Leaders, by Steve Parr