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Resources for Sabbath School Teachers / Discussion Leaders:
- Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About “Sabbath School Teacher” is a misnomer if you don’t understand that teaching is helping people to think. It is not telling the class what you think the lesson means (that’s lecturing). Rather than lecturing, Sabbath School teachers need to guide the discussion by giving class members something to talk about. Read the comments on the posts too. Good guide lines to follow.
- Many teachers find inspiration for teaching from the comments of students around the world, as found on our blog. Check them out!
- Official Teacher’s Quarterly Online: Choose the lessons we are studying.
- Dr Ken Hart’s Sabbath School Class Often lively lesson discussion in a small group, composed of persons from various backgrounds, several weeks ahead of the time the lesson is scheduled to be studied in church. Usually features a lot of Ellen White quotations..
- Sabbath School App in the iPhone and Android Apps Store includes the Teacher’s Edition. Download the app, click on the app, go to “More” (top right), go to Settings (bottom) and enable Teachers’ Content.
Learn from a professional teacher how to teach to change lives.
- You can learn to teach! Sabbath Schools are not intended to be catechizing classes. And that means that going through the lesson, question by question, and taking answers to the questions is not teaching. If you do not know how to do better than that, you can learn from good teachers. Watching how Derek Morris conducts the Hope Sabbath School (usually visible above) should help give you an idea of how a good class is run.
- One of the best books on the subject is Howard Hendricks’s Teaching to Change Lives.
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- After reading and learning from Howard Hendricks’s Teaching to Change Lives, take a look at one or two of the other books mentioned here.
- The book Creative Bible Teaching also focuses on good teaching methods, but this one is specifically aimed at those teaching from the Bible.
Bruce Wilkerson was a student of Dr Hendricks (author of Howard Hendricks’s Teaching to Change Lives) and includes a lot of anecdotes in his book, The Seven Laws of the Learner.
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