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A Passion to Communicate / Teaching to Change

Lives

Teachers are more than professional. It is intensely

personal. Teachers need to be passionate and committed

to their students.

There are 7 strategic concepts (laws, principles, rules) in

teaching. The law of the Teacher

The law of the Education

The law of the Activity

The law of the Communication

The law of the Heart

The law ofEncouragement

The law ofReadiness

These 7 laws essentially call for a passion to

communicate.

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The Law of the Teacher

If you stop growing today, you stop teaching

tomorrow

Luke 6:40: Everyone who is fully trained will

be like his teacher.

If you want to minister to others, ask God first

of all to minister to you. He wants to work

through youbut He cant until He works in

you.

He will use you as His instrument, but He

wants to sharpen and cleanse that instrument to

make it a more effective tool in His hands.



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The Law of the TeacherThe Search for Teachers

In the search for good teachers, look for FAT people those

who are Faithful, Available, and Teachable.

effective teaching comes only through a changed person.

The more you change, the more you become an instrument of

change in the lives of others. If you want to become a changeagent, you also must change.

The two factors that will influence you the most in the years

ahead are the books you read and the people youre around.

Experience does not necessarily make you better; in fact it

tends to make you worse, unless its evaluatedexperience. Thegood teachers greatest threat is satisfaction the failure to

keep asking, How can I improve?



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Growththe larger picture

Spiritually

Intellectually

Physically

Emotionally

Wake up to the realization that each day you can

give the Lord of your life even greater controlover every aspect of your being.

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The Law of Education

How people learn determines how you teach

stimulating and directing the learners self-

activities.

The teacher must excite and direct the

learners self-activities, tell the learner

nothingand do nothing for himthat he

can learn or do for himself.

Whats important is not what you do as a

teacher, but what the learners do as a result ofwhat you do.



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The Law of EducationThink, Learn & Work

Basic goals:

Teach people how to thinkIf you want to

change a person permanently, make sure his

thinking changes, and not merely his behavior. Teach people how to learnCreate learners

who will perpetuate the learning process for

the rest of their lives.

Teach people how to worknever do anythingfor a student that he is capable of doing for

himself.



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The Law of Activity

Maximum learning is always the result ofmaximum involvement. Students will learnbest as they are most active in the process.They need to be guided in their practice,

taught to properly evaluate their experience,and learn not by repeating their mistakes butby doing the right things.

Hearing is the most inefficient means of

learningpeople only retain at the most 10%of what they hear. But they will retain up to50% of what they see and up to 90% of whatthey do.



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The Law of ActivityQuality Activity

Purposeful activity implies quality activity.

Practice makes perfect.

Experience is the best teacher.

We learn by doing.


-Well-guided practice makes perfect

-Properly evaluated experience is the best teacher

-We learn by doing the right things


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The Law of Communication

Communication is the reason for our

existence as teachers.Its also our number

one teaching problem.

To truly impart information requires thebuilding of bridges. This means really

knowing ones students, which in itself

means spending timewith them outside the

classroom. Communication will be more

effective to the degree that it is something

the teacher deeply knows, feels and does.



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The Law of CommunicationIntellect, Emotion, and Volition

All communication has three essential

components: intellect, emotion, and volition

thought, feeling, and action.

Whatever it is I want to communicate toanother individual, it involves

something I know,

something I feel,

and something Im doing.



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The Law of the Heart

Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart toheart.

Platos triumvirate of ethos (character/credibility),pathos (compassion) and logos (content). Ethos,pathos and logos are like a pyramid where each is

dependent upon the previous.Character,Compassion, Content.

Without the foundation ofcharacter/credibility, therewill not be the confidence in the teacher which isfoundational to the implicit contract between teacher

and student. The student needs to know that the teacher cares

about him, and third of course, is content.



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The Law of Encouragement

Teaching tends to be most effective

when the learner is properly motivated. Extrinsic motivation : motivation from without.

Intrinsic motivation : motivation from within.

Developing a strong sense of felt need:

people will not learn what they have no

felt need for, and will invest themselves

in learning that for which they do have

a felt need.



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The Law of Encouragement

The key question is: Are you

motivated?Motivated people become

change agent.

If one-tenth of what you believe is true,

you ought to be ten times as excited as

you are.



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The Law of Readiness

The teaching-learning process will be most

effective when both student and teacher are

adequately prepared.

Lesson plans and syllabi Assignments

They precipitate thinkingassignments are mental warm-

up.

They provide a background, a foundation on which tobuild.

They develop habits of independent studyand this is the

most important benefit of good assignments.



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Good Assignments

The characteristics of good assignments:

They must be creative, not simply busy work.

Need a clear objective for the assignments;

designed with a purpose. They must be thought-provoking. They should

question more answers rather than answer more

questions. Stretch the learners minds.

Assignments must be doable.



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Making the Investment

The law of the Teacherstop growing today, and you stop teaching tomorrow.

The law of the Educationhow people learn determines how you teach.

The law of the Activitymaximum learning is always the result of maximum

involvement.

The law of the Communicationto truly impart information requires the building of

bridge.

The law of the Heartteaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.

The law of Encouragementteaching tends to be most effective when the

learner is properly motivated .

The law of Readinessthe teaching-learning process will be most effective

when both student and teacher are adequately prepared.



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The key is not what you do for God but what you allow

Him to do through you. God wants to use you as his

catalystand you let him transform and renew your

thinking, youll be ready for His use. Are you willing

to pay the price for development? Effective teachingisnt available at any bargain basement sale.

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Suggested Readings

Teaching to Change LivesHoward G. Hendricks

Creative Teaching Methods: Be An Effective Christian TeacherMarlene

D. LeFever

Learning Styles: Reaching Everyone God Gave YouMarlene D.

LeFever The Seven Laws of the Learner: How to Teach Almost Anything to

Practically Anyone!Bruce Wilkinson

Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning

Robert Littlejohn & Charles T. Evans

Recovering The Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to DistinctivelyChristian Education

A Mind At A Time: How Every Child Can SucceedMel Levine, M.D.

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