Essentials for Effective Teaching

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Essentials for Effective Teaching
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Teaching as Ministry
Teaching as an Art Form
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Task 1 Relying on the Holy Spirit

• We approach our teaching with humility.
• We pray for open minds and hearts.
• We pray to be led to translate the
  Scriptures.
• We pray to be open to teachable moments.
• We pray for insight and creativity.
• We pray for those in our classes.

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Task 2 Building Relationships

• We remember their names.
• We really listen to what they say.
• We respect their ideas, feelings, and dreams.
• We spend time in conversation.
• We connect with them outside the classroom.
• We build relationships among the participants.
• We build relationships with the larger
  community.

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Task 3 Gathering Resources for Planning

• The Bible
• The curriculum
• Bible study tools
• Media resources
• Creative resources

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Task 4 Identifying Session Focus

• Commandments and Neighbors
• Jesus summarized the laws of Moses with two
  quotes from the Law regarding loving God with
  ones whole being and loving neighbor as oneself.
  Jesus tells a parable to represent how radical is
  the kind of love expected of the people who are
  called to follow Jesus. Neighbors are those who
  live close by as well as those whom we know as
  our enemies.

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Task 5 Determining Session AimsIn this lesson
the learners will be helped to

• Compare the Luke passage with Matthew and Mark.
• Locate the sources of Jesus quotes from the Law.
• Describe Jesus approach to teaching with
  parables.
• Explain why Jesus teaching was so radical then
  and now.
• Suggest why Jesus teaching is radical today.

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Task 6 Planning the Lesson

• Opening or Invite
• Presenting or Introduce
• Exploring or Investigate
• Responding or Interpret
• Closing or Inspire

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Task 7 Inviting Participation Creativity

• All learners need to participate in order to
  learn
• Factors that contribute to motivation
• Importance of providing choices
• Creativity enables reinforcement of learning
• There are creative aspects of each of the
  intelligences

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Task 8 Asking Good Questions

• FACT QUESTIONS
• limited for guiding discussion
• only right answers accepted
• INTERPRETATION QUESTIONS
• necessary for guiding discussion
• many answers are appropriate
• APPLICATION QUESTIONS
• lead to extensive discussion
• all serious answers are accepted

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Ways We Learn Impacts How Much We Learn

• 10 of what we read
• 20 of what we hear
• 30 of what we see
• 50 of what we see and hear
• 70 of what is discussed with others
• 80 of what is experienced personally
• 95 of what we teach someone else
• William Glasser

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