Holding their Attention: Tips and Tricks for Teachers
By Cowboy Steve
When it comes to teaching the Released Time Bible Classes we want to keep the students attention - and sometimes that can be a challenge! So what can we do? We’ve probably all heard it said how important visuals are, but sometimes you just don’t have enough pictures to keep things moving. In those times you become the visual! How? Here are some ideas:
1. Move around. Don’t stay in one spot up front. Act out (a little) part of the lesson. For example: if teaching about David and Goliath, you put on Saul’s armor or a coat that ...
The Rewards Of A Teacher
By Mark Redka
Rewards are nice, aren’t they? It feels great when people enjoy a meal you’ve cooked or someone tells you that we look nice. It’s rewarding when people notice that you’ve lost weight after you’ve been diligent on a diet (not that I know from personal experience). I love to look out the window at the lawn I have just mowed or to admire a newly waxed vehicle. That’s instant gratification. Yet not all rewards are so instant or obvious.
Our motive as teachers shouldn’t be rewards. It should be our love for our ...
4 Things I Learned at Released Time
By Katlyn Carney
1. I love teaching children.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always loved teaching. I used to play school with my younger sister, complete with homemade lessons and tests, grades, stickers for her successes and, of course, going to the treasure box! As I got older, I was able to help out and teach in Children’s Church. I worked with ages from the babies in the nursery all the way to fifth grade. I’m not sure what my favorite ages would be, but my favorite attributes of children are their energy, vulnerability, and sense ...
The Fruit of the Spirit: A Children’s Bible Lesson
By Kimberly Perkins
Galatians 5:22-23
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.”
Have you ever wondered why the fruit of the Spirit is singular instead of plural? With a list of nine different qualities, shouldn’t they be the “fruits of the Spirit?” I recently read a book by Christopher J. H. Wright entitled Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit. Wright describes the fruit of the Spirit, not as a bunch of grapes but ...
An Easter Bible Lesson
By Joanna McFarland
The Bible is God’s Word. In it we learn so much about Him and His plan for the whole world. The Bible is split into 2 parts: The Old Testament and the New Testament. In the Old Testament, we learn that, from the beginning of time (creation), God was there. He made mankind and, even though they broke His commandments and deserved to die, He still loved them and desired to provide a substitution. Sacrificing a lamb was the only way this substitution would work. God tells us that the punishment for sin is death (Romans 6:23). It was not ...
