Your TeachingEXCELerateEXCELerate

Adult Sunday School TeacherTraining Workshop

Your Teaching

Welcome• Four challenges you face in teaching adults?

• Some things that you would like to take home with you from this conference?

• Some ideas that you have discovered or that you believe will help you to EXCELerate your teaching and leadership?

EXCELerate Your Teaching

Question:How do we effectively teach adults in our Sunday School

Classes?

We Must Desire To Grow As A Teacher

• Do you believe you can become a better teacher?

• Do you desire to be a better teacher?

• Is there room for growth and change in your teaching and the leadership of your class?

We Must Desire To Grow As A Teacher

• Great teachers and leaders are life-long learners.

– (Acts 18:26)– (2 Tim. 1:6)– (Exodus 18:14-27)

–Apollos– Timothy–Moses

We Must Know Where We Want To Take Them

• As Sunday School Teachers there is a privilege, purpose and power in our teaching.

• The privilege of our teaching is partnership with God in His Kingdom.

• The power in our teaching is the Word of God and the work of the Holy Spirit.

• The purpose of our teaching is life transformation.

We Must Earn The Right To Teach Them

• Sunday School is only 1/3 Educational

Reaching

Teaching

Ministry

We Must Earn The Right To Teach Them

• Love opens the door.

• A Sunday School Teacher is the shepherd of a small flock.

• A Sunday School Teacher is a servant leader and fellow traveler on the journey.

We Must Seek To Better Understand How People Learn

• Not everyone learns or processes information the same way.

• As a teacher, the better you understand your student(s) the more effectively you can teach to them.

• Adults decide for themselves what is important to be learned.

• Seek to validate the information based on their beliefs and experience.

• Expect and desire what they are learning to be immediately useful.

• Have much experience upon which to draw and may have fixed viewpoints.

• Often have significant ability to serve as a knowledgeable resource to the teacher and fellow learners.

As A Teacher Of Adults We Must Remember …

We Must Seek To Better Understand How People Learn

• People learn and process information in different ways.

• Each of us learn and process information in our own special way.

• People take in information through our sense– How people see, hear, feel and move through

their world.

We Must Seek To Better Understand How People Learn

• People generally tend to display one of the three following as their dominate learning style:

– Visual learners rely on pictures.

– Auditory learners listen carefully to all the sounds associated with learning.

– Kinesthetic/Tactile learners need to physically do something to understand it.

We Must Seek To Better Understand How People Learn

• Visual• Verbal• Natural• Logical• Musical• Reflective• Relational• Physical

We Must Seek To Better Understand How People Learn

• All of your learners will not be at the same level of learning in your class.

• Levels of Learning

ExposureRecall

RecognitionApplication

Lifestyle

We Must Vary Our Methods And Adopt Strategies That Connect

• Context: What does it say? What does it mean? Who wrote it? Who was the writer writing to? Why was he writing? What is the overall theme of the book?

• Bridge the Context: What does it mean for us today? Are there promises to claim? Commands to obey? Truths to believe? Attitudes, behaviors or values to change?

• Application: How do I apply it to my life and to the lives of my class members?

• Vary your teaching methods to connect with all of your learners.

Powerful Tools for Study

• Study Bible – Provides study notes, cross references, background information etc.

• Exhaustive Concordance – Provides word meanings in original languages

• Topical Bible – Arranged by topics, great for cross references.

• Bible Dictionary – Good for background material.• Commentaries• Bible Study Software• On-line Study Resources

P E C• Prepare – Preparing the teacher.

• Encounter – Preparing the teaching/ministry session.

• Continue – Continuing the lesson.

Crafting a Strong Teaching Plan

• Require a time investment• Give attention to content and presentation• Call for a variety of teaching methods and

learning activities.• Identify how the session ends.• Have time segment estimates.• Begin strong and give direction.

• Our classes contain people at various levels of biblical understanding, they bring a variety of learning approaches to the class, and they come each week with various needs, struggles and life situations.

• Let’s capitalize on the privilege to represent our Savior and the challenge to use the gifts, abilities and tools that God has given us to love and lead them into a closer walk with Him!”

EXCELerate

The information shared in this conference was compiled and adapted from the following resources:

• Teaching Adults – A Guide for Transformational Teaching, by Rick Edwards

• The Six Core Values of Sunday School, by Alan Taylor.

• Sunday School Leadership Development Course ,by Tim Smith.

• Training Your Sunday School Leaders, by Steve Parr