Posted in Adult Education on 21. Jun, 2010
Creative Bible teachers are always looking for different ways to make Scripture current and relevant to life today. Adults will only learn what is meaningful to them, so the first question to be addressed when presenting a lesson is “What has this got to do with me, with my life, in the context of my [...]
Posted in Adult Education on 29. Apr, 2010
If telling is not teaching and listening is not learning, how does a teacher teach? By giving your student learning tasks. A learning task is an open question put to the learners who have all the resources they need to respond, inviting their reflective response. As your learners work on learning tasks, in small groups [...]
Posted in Adult Education on 21. Apr, 2010
One of the most important jobs of a Bible teacher is to build a bridge between the biblical world and your student’s world. It is a bridge that crosses both time and cultural boundaries. This bridge must take the students into a society far different from his own and back again. But it must span [...]
Posted in Adult Education on 07. Apr, 2010
One of my favorite adult learning quotes is ‘Telling is not teaching and listening is not learning.’ I think of all the times I have either lectured a workshop or sat in a workshop where I have been lectured to and frankly, it does not conjure up pleasant memories! But far worse than the idea [...]
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