I love worship! I love kids worship! I AM TERRIBLE AT MUSIC! That is the beauty of the technological day that we live in. Music is so accessible today, all you need is an iPhone (if you don’t have one, use one of the kids- amazing). In this post I outline some tips that willContinueContinue reading “TIPS FOR KIDS WORSHIP”
Category Archives: Teaching Thursday
ALPHABET TRAIN – FOAM LETTER ACTIVITY
Place the letters in a circle around the room Have each student stand on a letter Give the group a POWER WORD that they will use to come up with words for this activity Tell your group that they will partner with the person who is at their right Have each pair tell each other a wordContinueContinue reading “ALPHABET TRAIN – FOAM LETTER ACTIVITY”
ABC’s OF LEARNING
The first concern of any classroom is to make sure that it is safe and orderly. To keep a safe and exciting environment, we start each session by establishing the expectations for the class. We call these the ABC’s of learning: ACTIVE LISTENING As ACTIVE LISTENERS we wait for the appropriate time to speak. We listenContinueContinue reading “ABC’s OF LEARNING”
MINGLE
A great teacher strategy I love to use when I am working with a large group but need to divide them into smaller groups is called MINGLE. Start out by yelling out random numbers and have students get in a group with that many student EXAMPLE: If you shout 7 then everyone should get in groups ofContinueContinue reading “MINGLE”
DISCUSSION BALL
A great way to recap a lesson or to introduce new material to your class is by using a discussion ball. They make professional discussion balls with specific content questions on them, but I prefer to buy a $1.00 beach ball and take a list of labels and create 10 to 20 questions focused around my topic.ContinueContinue reading “DISCUSSION BALL”
THINK PAIR SHARE
The think, pair, share strategy is a cooperative learning technique that encourages individual participation and is applicable across all grade levels and class sizes. Students think through questions using three distinct steps: 1) THINK Students think independently about the question that has been posed, forming ideas of their own. 2) PAIR Students are grouped in pairsContinueContinue reading “THINK PAIR SHARE”
KRISPY KREME TEACHING EXPERIENCE
We tend to view preaching and teaching in two separate lights. We see preaching as high energy and inspiring, yet we perceive teaching as low energy and mundane. Many view teaching in a “sit and get” fashion. People need a varied approach to teaching. Join me as we examine “Krispy Kreme®” to consider howContinueContinue reading “KRISPY KREME TEACHING EXPERIENCE”
THE LINE GAME
Today’s Post is an incredible activity that my wife, Dr. Bobbi Morehead Superintendent of Covert Public Schools, created for the Sunday School Workshop in Grand Ledge a couple years ago. The purpose of the activity was to relate participants feeling to the feelings of Bible characters. The teacher will speak out certain feelings and if participants agree or relateContinueContinue reading “THE LINE GAME”
ACTING OUT
Your students are always “acting out”, so use that to your benefit. If your topic is repentance you can have a large box that is full of cleaning supplies. You can have participants come to the front, take one of the supplies and talk about how it relates to the topic of repentance. For instance a participantContinueContinue reading “ACTING OUT”
TWIST ME SILLY: PIPE CLEANER ACTIVITY
A great retelling activity is pipe cleaners! Pipe cleaners are cheap, easy to use and lots of fun. At the conclusion of your lesson you can have students use pipe cleaners to create symbols of their number one take-away of the lesson. For instance if you are teaching on prayer, at the conclusion of theContinueContinue reading “TWIST ME SILLY: PIPE CLEANER ACTIVITY”
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