The Art of Teaching: Fostering Transformational Learning

GOAL FOR SEMINAR: Equip participants with the insights and skills needed to design creative, impactful Bible lessons, teach learners instead of simply teaching lessons, and deliver gospel-focused communion meditations that produce life transformation.

SATURDAY

Main Session 1 - Designing Learning Experiences for Life Transformation

• SESSION MATERIALS

  • Session 1 Slide Deck

  • Readings/handouts

    • Piaget, Schemas, and Learning video [5:24]

    • Image: Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning & Verbs

    • Image: Dale’s Cone of Learning

    • Practice Goal Writing and Group Lesson (Lk 15-Prodigal Son)

    • HBLT Creative Learning Worksheet

    • Dead Poets Society - “Understanding Poetry” [3:33 min]

  • Bible Study Helps

    • Bible Gateway - type in the passage and then hit the 2 page icon above the text to add different versions to read

    • Net Bible - this site has some Bible study helps. It includes Greek (even if you don’t know Greek you can see similar words in a passage).

• FOR FURTHER STUDY *

  • Made to Stick by the Heath Brothers summary

  • Teaching to Change Lives: Seven Proven Ways to Make Your Teaching Come Alive by Howard Hendricks

Main Session 2 - Creatively Teaching Learners not Lessons

• SESSION MATERIALS

  • Session 2 Slide Deck

  • Readings/handouts

    • Teach Like a Pirate Hooks - Tons of questions to spark your creativity in how you design your learning experiences and aid your students to learn from Dave Burgess in Teach Like a Pirate: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator, 2012.)

    • Creative Teaching Toolbox - Over 200 Teaching Methods that you could use to engage your learners instead of always lecturing (from Dan Lambert in Teaching that Makes a Difference: How to Teach for Holistic Impact, Zondervan, 2004.)

    • Tips for Asking Better Questions - This is one of my web pages that discusses how to ask great questions. In addition, there are links to some great questions for different scenarios beyond teaching.

• FOR FURTHER STUDY *

  • Watch Boosting Student Memory video [1:47 min] - We have to help students REMEMBER (Bloom #1) and UNDERSTAND (Bloom’s #2) so that life change can happen. It is a combination of our emotions, our rational thought, and the Holy Spirit. We have to help learners remember so that the Holy Spirit has something to work with.

  • Writing Curriculum Template (multiple lessons that fit in a theme) - A Sample - This is a template of how to organize a creative learning experience for children or youth but can be adapted to adults.

Main Session 3 - Creating and Delivering Communion Meditations

• SESSION MATERIALS

  • Session 3 Slide Deck

  • Readings/handouts

    • Effective Communion Meditations (and sample passages)

• FOR FURTHER STUDY *

  • Orcutt Christian Church Communion Meditation Guidelines AND several samples

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