Lesson 22 - How To Teach
Introduction A. Be early - show up before the students and have everything in order B. Be prepared - know your lesson, rehearse possible scenarios, anticipate questions C. Be faithful - be there every time, if possible. Let them see you are committed. D. Be considerate - if you can’t make it, let leaders know, get a substitute, and let students know, if possible I. Teaching aims at 3 goals: A. To transfer information B. To enhance understanding C. To illicit a response We want them to : 1. Know more about God 2. come into a personal relationship with Him 3. Adjust their lives to be more pleasing to Him Teaching is more than standing in front of a group of people and telling them what they need to know. It is getting them involved in the process of learning. The ideal goal of teaching is to bring people to the very edge of truth - and giving them the tools, abilities, and inspiration to discover it for themselves. II. Plan A. A pattern for teaching: 1. Content - teach the concept (or truth) 2. Implication - discover its implications for our lives 3. Response - determine and choose a proper response. Encourage them to do something. B. Know your material. Study well and know it thoroughly before you teach. Then you will be confident and flexible. C. Build your lesson in terms of the response you hope to achieve. (e.g. The cnetral point of this lesson is ______. At the end of this lesson, I want to see ____.) III. Structure of a lesson A. A four-part structure for results 1. Hook - something to catch attention, set your goal, and lead into the lesson 2. Book - explain the lesson - This is the lecture part. The teacher does the talking here. Use charts, visual aids, illustrations - whatever helps to get your point across. 3. Look - get them involved. Get them thinking. Ask some probing questions. Students must see how the biblical principles apply to their own lives. 4. Took - encourage a response. Get them to pinpoint areas where they will respond to what they have learned. People must make decisions based on new insights. They must put it inot to practice in order for it to take. IV. Motivation to learn A. Students learn more in relationship than in classrooms. We need to show those we are teaching that we care about them. "People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care." B. Conditions for learning People learn best when: 1. The material makes sense to them. It’s not just a bunch of gathered facts. 2. It is relevant to their lives. Does it mean anything to them? 3. It is simple enough to follow, but tough enough to challenge them. 4. They are led to the point of discovering truth - not just having it dumped on them. 5. They see it work in their lives. If it works, they will keep it.
Study Guide For "What The Bible Is All About"
by Henrietta Mears
Chapter 22 - Understanding Hosea, Joel, and Amos
Understanding Hosea 1. When did Hosea prophesy? _______________________________ 2. He has been called the __________________ of the Northern Kingdom. 3. Hosea is one of the greatest __________ in all of literature. Why? _______________________________________________________ 4. What happened in the middle of Hosea’s ministry? _____________ 5. Hosea was told to do what? ________________________________ 6. God used this as _________________________________________ 7. God’s dealings with Israel picture His ________________________ 8. What did Gomer do? ______________________________________ 9. This is a sad picture of man’s ______________________. 10. God frequently uses _________________ to symbolize His relation to Israel. 11. Sin is basically __________________________________________ 12. The history of man has been a history of ______________________. 13. Israel has been a nation of __________________________. 14. Hosea’s message is _______________________________________. 15. What name is always connected with sin or backsliding? _________ 16. We need not more liberty, but more ____________________. 17. God will not do anything with a ___________ spirit and a _________ will. 18. When people refuse light, ______________________. 19. Knowledge always creates ______________________. Understanding Joel 1. Joel’s name means _____________________. 2. He has been called the prophet of ____________________. 3. Revival follows ___________________. 4. Joel was the first to prophesy ______________________________. 5. Using the plague of ______________ God called his people to repentance. 6. In their extremity men will turn to God. What does that mean? _______________________________________________________ 7. __________________ is the great central promise of the book of Joel. 8. The great need in the pulpit today is ______________________. 9. The "day of the Lord" refers to ____________________. Understanding Amos 1. Amos was a ____________________________________________. 2. God calls a man when he is ______________________________. 3. All the people thought of was ______________________________. 4. Amos feared God so much that ____________________________. 5. The law of the country will be kept when _____________________. 6. What have all the great empires fallen? ______________________ 7. Bethel was the ____________________________ of the northern kingdom. 8. What four things did Amos address? _______________, __________, __________________, and _____________________. 9. Judah was judged for _________________________ and Israel for ______________________________________________________. 10. If men reject the repeated _____________________, they must be ______________________________________________________. 11. The Israelites saw their relationship with God as ________________ _______________________________________________________. 12. The punishment of Judah was fulfilled in ______________________ ________________________________________________________. 13. Nothing is more dangerous in the church than __________ and ___________ given to people who have ____________ but not ________________________. 14. What five visions did Amos have? __________________, ____________________, ___________________, ________________, and ____________________. 15. When the people of Israel wouldn’t listen to Amos, he _____________ _________________________________________________________ 16. Redemption is ____________. Christ _____________________. 17. Salvation is the establishment of ________________________________