Bible Teaching Methods Methods and Tools for Teaching the Bible 2: Six Lesson Tools (Appendix on the Methods of Christ)

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1 Bible Teaching Methds Methds and Tls fr Teaching the Bible 2: Six Lessn Tls (Appendix n the Methds f Christ) Determinative Factrs in preparing the lessn and in reaching yur students The learner s age and ability The Lessn Aim Aimed at the head: Infrmatin Lecture Q&A Interviews Brainstrming Case study analysis Debates/Frums/Panels Aimed at the heart: Mtivatinal Case studies Stries Dramas and skits Testimnies Debates/discussins Field trips t recgnize need Aimed at the hands: behaviral skills Examples Wrkshps and practice sessins Experiments Rewards Prgrammed Learning Apprenticeships Bible Teaching Methds, Lessn 5, Teaching Tls and Methds, p. 1

2 Rle playing Accuntability partners and/r supprt grups Aimed at a cmbinatin f cgnitive, affective, behaviral HBLT Lessn Structure Hk appeals t affectins Bk relies upn cgnitive appraches Lk appeals t the affectins again t appreciate Bible principles Tk mves t behaviral appraches Resurces Class size Class climate Rm envirnment Time available Equipment Six Fundatinal methds f Bible Teaching 1. Strytelling Strytellers sw seeds that ripen int knwledge, wisdm, character, and cnduct R&B, pp a. Especially effective with children, and ften with adults b. 30% f Jesus recrded teaching is in the frm f parables c. Value: mre than entertaining the student, stries capture the attentin but als linger in the memry, instruct in rights and wrngs, and mve the hearers t change d. D(s) and Dn ts f Strytelling i. DO NOT --Tell a stry withut stry and rehearse it.. Rather, visualize the --Give t many details nr g ff n tangents. Stick with the heart and main develpment f the stry Bible Teaching Methds, Lessn 5, Teaching Tls and Methds, p. 2

3 --Illustrate the stry with anther stry. This can becme a rabbit trail that detracts frm the message. --Use excessive prps that detract frm the stry s plt and student s imaginatin --Analyze the stry in class. This begins t remve the affective benefit f the stry t a mre lgical/cgnitive level. ii. DO --Make sure the stry is t the age grup and cntext --Make the stry with clrful language that develps graphic images. Make sure yur vcabulary fits the student s vcabulary. --Resist sliciting. Let the stry simmer. Yu may reference the elements f the stry later in the lessn t reinfrce truth. 2. Prvcative Questins The term Scratic Questining is used t describe a kind f questining in which an riginal questin is respnded t as thugh it were an answer. This in turn frces the first questiner t refrmulate a new questin in light f the prgress f the discurse. (Wikipedia fund at --The classic example f Jesus using prvcative questins is in Matthew 16: Wh d men say that I am? But wh d yu say that I am? --Questins shuld be rather than yes/n questins --The teacher must anticipate in the students answers and be able t adapt subsequent questins t clarify and crrect student pinins --T allw fr self-discvery, let the questins f the class bmerang back n the class instead f serving as the answer machine --Value: questins can mve the student frm the general t the particular, and frm general implicatins t persnal applicatin -With regard t persnal applicatin, dn t say, Hw can we apply this lessn in ur lives? Rather, say What steps shuld we take? r What ne thing will yu begin t d this week? 3. Case studies --Substance: students review the details that build a real-life incident r situatin in a persn s life. Students discuss, usually in small grups, the elements f the case, guided by supplied questins. --Value: case studies generate pinins, and gain student interest/ invlvement Bible Teaching Methds, Lessn 5, Teaching Tls and Methds, p. 3

4 --Apprach: 1) Read the case thrughly, perhaps mre than nce 2) Define the central issue, the mst imprtant f several pssible issues in the case 3) Generalize the prblem as: spiritual, inter-persnal, circumstantial, etc. 4) See the prblem biblically with suggested biblical answers 4. Discussin --Value: draws n life experience and skill f the class --Teacher challenges in leading discussin -Must plan the directin and cnclusin f the discussin -Must facilitate with engaging questins while being respnsive t cntributrs -Must be ready t cpe with dmineering persnalities r cntrary devil s advcates -Must keep the class n tpic 5. Buzz Grups --Defined: designatin f small discussin grups that assigned tpics r Bible passages with specific questins n the assignment. A grup recrder/spkesman will reprt back t the class --Value: direct student engagement n the tpic, with cllateral interest in the ther grups findings. Wrks well 1) with teens & yung adults, r 2) when the lessn time is shrt. 6. Lecture Effective lectures cmbine the talents f schlar, writer, prducer, cmedian, shwman, and teacher in ways that cntribute t student learning. -William McKeachie in R&B, p Value: fr cmmunicating large amunts f infrmatin and/r detailed cntent in a systematic fashin fr mentally alert and mature classes. --Effective lecturers will use visual aids and will be animated and engaged with the class --81% f Jesus teaching was directly thrugh single-directin teaching (per Perry Shaw in R&B, p. 194) Bible Teaching Methds, Lessn 5, Teaching Tls and Methds, p. 4

5 The Master Teacher s Methds (per Rbert Chun in R&B, p. 194) 1. Object Lessns: Give me a drink (Jhn 4) 2. Pints f Cntact: Simn, bar Jnah, yu shall be called Cephas Befre Philip called yu, I saw yu under the fig tree and yu shall see greater things than this (Jhn 1) 3. Declaratin f Aims: my fd is t the will f Him Wh sent me (Jhn 4:34) 4. Prblem Slving: Have yu kept the cmmandments? G and sell all t inherit eternal life (Mark 10:17-22) 5. Cnversatin: Wh then can be saved? Jesus replied, With men it is impssible, but with Gd all things are pssible. (Mark 10:27) 6. Questins: Jesus asked mre than 100 questins in the gspels t sharpen the truth, ften in respnse t smene s questin 7. Answers: Jesus gave answers t mve peple frm spiritual darkness t light 8. Lecture/Preaching: Sermn n the Munt, Olivet discurse, Jhn at last supper 9. Parables 10. Citatin f Scripture: shwed relevance and authrity f the Bible 11. Expliting the teachable mment : the wman at the well, Nicdemus 12. Cntrast: yu have heard it said, but I say unt yu d as the Pharisees say, but nt as they d 13. Cncrete examples: cnsider the birds f the air, the pppies f the field 14. Mdeling: ft washing 15. Symbls: "I have a baptism t be baptized with, and hw distressed I am till it is accmplished! (Luke 12:50) 16. Mtivating: whever wishes t save his life will lse it, but whever lses his life fr my sake shall find it (Matt 16:26) Bible Teaching Methds, Lessn 5, Teaching Tls and Methds, p. 5