A Teachable Heart

1. A Teachable Heart Teacher’s Training Seminar Part Two- Preparing Carefully Prepared by N.H. Beaman, based on the book What Every Sunday School Teacher Should know by Elmer Towns

2. Knowing Your Role There are 4 areas of any teaching ministry Reaching- making a connection with people Teaching- guiding the learning Winning- communicating and motivating a person to respond to the Gospel Disciplining- nurturing and maturing all members It is important to have balance- focusing on all not merely one area.

3. Teachers must be… • Saved • In agreement of the doctrine of the church • Faithful in attendance and in financial giving • Be experienced in God’s working in their lives • Be consistent in their spiritual life • Be able to feed themselves from the Word of God • Be a Shepherd to the flock they have been given oversight

4. Shepherding • Original word translated “pastor” • Teachers have the same responsibility to their class as the pastor to the larger flock • Shepherds lead, feed, and care for the flock they have been given oversight • Using every means possible to teach and reach • Ever watchful protecting his or her flock- (absenteeism) • Caring for straying lambs

5. The Lesson CENTRAL TRUTHS • Limit each lesson to one central truth • Relate lesson title, reading, and memory verse to the central truth • Adapt emphasis according to the unique needs and personalities of your students • Write a simple sentence that states what you want to teach • Evaluate your statement

6. Does your statement… • Reflect the heart of the lesson passage? • Pinpoint the idea suggested by the title? • Set forth a basic principle of Bible truth? • Contain a gist of the memory selection? • Coincide with the unit of study? • Present an interest, problem, or need? • Seem appropriate to your class? • Square with all the teachings of the Bible on the subject? Taken from Blue Print for Teaching- written by John Sisemore

7. TEACHING AIMS • Learning to write a teaching aim is the single most effective skill to produce learning in a student • Are a clear statement of purpose in a lesson • The nature of the lesson, your students needs and personalities will determine which of the three teaching aims you will emphasize in the lesson. THE THREE TEACHING AIMS • Educational- increasing knowledge and understanding • Inspirational- changing attitudes • Motivational- taking action, applying knowledge

8. Evaluating • Who am I teaching? • What am I teaching? • What am I trying to achieve in this session? • What do I want to achieve?

9. Objectives and Learning Activities • To know or understand, to instruct or communicate ( educational) • To encourage or comfort, to feel or appreciate (inspirational) • To Enlist or involve, to apply or commit (motivational) • A good aim also identifies the specific change you want to achieve. (acquiring new knowledge, changing attitudes, or action taken.

10. The best aims are short, concise and to the point.

11. Evaluation Is your teaching aim… • Brief enough to be remembered? • Specific enough to meet needs? • Clear enough to be obvious? • Practical enough to be attainable? • Interesting enough to entice participation? • Relevant enough to support the ultimate aim?

12. LESSON OUTLINES should… • List main points • Cover all material you wish to discuss • Be written out • Be built around structure (a series of questions, statements, the logic of an argument, a theory, stating or solving problems, a series of keywords, or verse by verse of a passage) • Acrostics and alliterations are helpful for remembering an outline but not all outlines are suitable • A lot of content?- keep a copy of the outline in front of you, distribute a copy to your students

13. A good lesson outline helps you determine the best way to communicatethe lesson

14. A Teachable Heart Teacher’s Training Seminar Part Three- Present the Word Prepared by N.H. Beaman, based on the book What Every Sunday School Teacher Should know by Elmer Towns