Teaching Skills

What books in Logos or otherwise do you recommend regarding teaching methods and skills? I am looking to brush up on my teaching skills to become more effective in my teaching ministry. Can you recommend search criteria to help me find this type of resource in my Logos library. Thanks!

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Daniel Yoder

I am not an expert on search criteria, but I would recommend Creative Bible Teaching, by Lawrence Richards and Gary Bredfeldt. That book used to be available in Logos, but it was one of the victims of the disappearance of Moody products. This resource presents a relatively simple method of Bible teaching that is both time-tested and effective.

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Can you recommend search criteria to help me find this type of resource in my Logos library.

Found 806 articles about teaching plus topic options:

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Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/494075#Comment_494075

Found 806 articles about teaching plus topic options:

Clicking "Search for Teaching, Learning, Teacher" changed search to:

Teaching OR Learning OR Teacher

along with expanding number of articles found to 2,955, including:

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Scott E. Mahle

What books in Logos or otherwise do you recommend regarding teaching methods and skills?

The Evangelical Dictionary of Christian Education contains a wealth of information for a teacher – from its articles to the bibliography that accompanies each article.

Matthew C Jones

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/494074#Comment_494074

but I would recommend Creative Bible Teaching, by Lawrence Richards and Gary Bredfeldt. That book used to be available in Logos, but it was one of the victims of the disappearance of Moody products. This resource presents a relatively simple method of Bible teaching that is both time-tested and effective.

I agree with your recommendation. Too bad it is not available in Logos anymore. This is a great book for learning how to teach a Bible class. The contents are:

Studying the Bible

1. This Bible: The Need for and Nature of the Bible
2. Inspired by God: The Divine Authorship and Human Literature of the Bible
3. Person to Person: The Message and Role of the Bible
4. Rightly Divided: The Study of the Bible
5. A Sample Bible Study: The Creative Bible Teacher’s Inductive Method

Focusing the Message

6. Focus on Needs: Understanding and Assessing Student Needs
7. Focus on Learning: Truth into Life
8. Focus on Results: Teaching for Life Change

Structuring the Lesson

9. The Pattern: HBLT Approach
10. The Process: Engaging Student Response
11. The Means: Methods Make a Difference
12. The Tools: Choosing and Using Curriculum

Teaching the Class

13. Teaching Principles: Common Practices of Truly Great Teachers
14. Teaching Effectiveness: Motivating the Learner
15. Teaching the Bible to Adults: Can We Get Practical Here?
16. Teaching the Bible to Youth: What Difference Does This Make?
17. Teaching the Bible to Children: Please Understand Me
18. Teaching the Bible to Preschoolers: More Than Baby-sitting

Evaluating the Results

19. A Model for Evaluation: Something to “Stake” on
20. Developing and Improving as a Teacher: You Can Get There from Here

Bibliography
Questions for Discussion and Further Study

Lawrence O. Richards and Gary J. Bredfeldt, Creative Bible Teaching ("Revised and expanded";Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1998), 7-8.

Rich DeRuiter

What books in Logos or otherwise do you recommend regarding teaching methods and skills? I am looking to brush up on my teaching skills to become more effective in my teaching ministry. Can you recommend search criteria to help me find this type of resource in my Logos library. Thanks!

You've already gotten a lot of help here. I just thought I'd share something I learned a long time ago that has proved true too many times not to notice. It's a bit of a generalization, but still helpful: people remember about 20% of what they're told, but 80% of what they discover.

So, when we teach, if our goal is retention, we want to use methods that increase curiosity, or in some other way actually have the participants (students) discover the answers. A sem prof. I had used to refer to something called 'creative tension.' This happens when the teacher creates dissonance that requires some sort of resolution. For example, "Jesus told the disciples to 'heal the sick.' How could they do that? How could they heal the sick? Can you heal the sick? Was Jesus asking the impossible?" The dissonance created by these series of questions will require that most thoughtful people will go to the text, poke around and try to find an answer. They're more likely to retain the answer they find, if they go looking, than if you just say, "Jesus gave his disciples authority to heal the sick and then sent them out to do it, and look what happened: people got healed."

Anyway, the use of creative tension, and the technique of letting the 'students' find the answer, or at least try to find it (leaving the tension unresolved as long as it takes for folks to be uncomfortable), is one of the most helpful things I've learned to do as a teacher.

The other little piece of advice I learned was this: You can't really teach people anything, you can only help them learn. This is helpful because it turns the tables around: the focus is the learners not the teacher.

JT (alabama24)

I highly recommend Andy Stanley's Communicating for a Change. It isn't available in Logos, so I've provided a kindle link below.

http://www.amazon.com/Communicating-Change-Irresistible-Communication-ebook/dp/B001E2WM54/ref=tmm_kin_title_0

NB.Mick

Can you recommend search criteria to help me find this type of resource in my Logos library. Thanks!

When I first tried the comprehensive searches like KJ4J did, I found that the results were not really satisfying to answer your question: too many false positives. I thus went back to a simple library filtering for subject:(education, teacher) which brought a couple of resources (still chaff and wheat), among them

logosres:chrtedteach | The Christian Educator’s Handbook on Teaching which is part of a topical bundle and co-edited with Howard Hendricks of "Living by the book" fame. I would suggest you take a look at it.

Btw, together with (different) other authors, Hendricks has Mastering Teaching in Logos, which seems to be to the point, too - I just put it on my wishlist...

Hope this helps a bit

Mick

Bruce Dunning

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/494086#Comment_494086

I highly recommend Andy Stanley's Communicating for a Change. It isn't available in Logos, so I've provided a kindle link below.

http://www.amazon.com/Communicating-Change-Irresistible-Communication-ebook/dp/B001E2WM54/ref=tmm_kin_title_0

Not available "yet"! I hope it will be in the future.

Paul-C

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/494086#Comment_494086

I highly recommend Andy Stanley's Communicating for a Change. It isn't available in Logos, so I've provided a kindle link below.

http://www.amazon.com/Communicating-Change-Irresistible-Communication-ebook/dp/B001E2WM54/ref=tmm_kin_title_0

I love this book! [Y][Y][Y]

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/494088#Comment_494088

When I first tried the comprehensive searches like KJ4J did, I found that the results were not really satisfying to answer your question: too many false positives.

Modifying search removes lots of results:

logosres:chrtedteach | The Christian Educator’s Handbook on Teaching which is part of a topical bundle and co-edited with Howard Hendricks of "Living by the book" fame. I would suggest you take a look at it.

Tweaking search a bit more includes this resource:

(Teacher,Teaching) WITHIN 12 WORDS (Christian,Learning)

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MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/494176#Comment_494176

It's not a full spectrum resource, The Bible Study Handbook: A Resource for Teaching 175 Stories from the Bible by John H. Walton, Kim E. Walton. It's advice especially the "Mistakes to Avoid" makes it a good resource for learning to teach.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/494179#Comment_494179

It's not a full spectrum resource, The Bible Study Handbook: A Resource for Teaching 175 Stories from the Bible by John H. Walton, Kim E. Walton. It's advice especially the "Mistakes to Avoid" makes it a good resource for learning to teach.

http://amzn.com/1433506483

Michael Kinch

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Vyrso has a few as well.