Sunday, September 7, 2008
Sunday afternoon thought
Well, I've been home from church a little while now and a few things began to cross my mind. I teach Sunday School to young adults (20-45) and I realized how poorly we do at teaching Sunday School. I mean we do almost nothing that a teacher should do. We have almost no tools or technologies. It is just the people in a room with our Bibles. No flip chart, no audio recordings, no anything. Then I began to think. How would it work if it were more like a classroom. What if I had handouts, video clips, oral quizzes, group work. I don't know. I might run everyone out of my class. I realized that as bad as education is about tradition, churches can be even worse. I don't know what would happen if I had contemporary christian music playing when they entered, a video to watch, and a handout that they answer questions to and turn in. There are three public school teachers in the class other than myself, but no one seems to mind the daily grind. This class made me think I should shake things up. I've found some good websites, books, youtube videos and such they the class may enjoy. I should try to incorporate that into the lessons or at least let them be aware that it is out there. Just an afternoon rant.
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