Tag: adult Bible study

  • Five Things With Another Veteran Pastor

    FIVE resources (books, blogs, YouTube videos, websites, articles) you’d recommend for educators who teach adults. Book: 50 Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement by Rebecca Stobaugh  I recently purchased this book and am happy that I did. Although written for those who teach secular subjects, the book gives examples of various learning activities that could be used in…

  • Five Things with a Veteran Pastor

    FIVE lessons you’ve learned or have come to appreciate more since your presentation at the 2015 Fall Symposium on what St. Augustine can teach us about adult education.  One important truth is the purpose of education. To Augustine, education meant “ moving the minds of the listeners, not [simply] that they may know what is…

  • Five Things With a Mission Pastor

    This month we continue our series of articles entitled “Five Things.” Each month, we interview a practitioner of Christian Adult Education to learn about their educational philosophy, books they’ve read, advice they’d give to other educators, and their perspectives on teaching the Word. This month features Pastor Mike Quandt, who serves Redemption Lutheran Church in…

  • Five Things With a Seminary Education Professor

    This month we begin a new series of articles entitled “Five Things.” Each month, we’ll interview a practitioner of Christian Adult Education to learn about their educational philosophy, books they’ve read, advice they’d give to other educators, and their perspectives on teaching the Word. This month features Professor Tom Kock, who teaches Education at Wisconsin…

  • From Passive Listening to Active Learning

    Rev. Dan Schroeder lays out a 12-week plan for moving the class from passive listening to active learning Weeks 1-2Give the participants 30 seconds to write down their thoughts on a question you pose. Example: “Take 30 seconds and write down as many reasons as you can about why it’s important that we have a…

  • Using Tech to Create Connections, Part Five—Connecting Student to Student

    “What do you think about the Messiah?” (Matthew 22:42) With that question, Jesus—the Master Teacher—invited his disciples to both reflect on an important question and verbalize their deeply held beliefs. They would benefit not only from stating their own answers but also from hearing the answers of their fellow disciples. In other words, it was…

  • Using Tech to Create Connections, Part Two—Connecting Student and Content

    I used to be of the opinion that I was a little more of a serious thinker than many people because I read Atlantic Monthly, a serious, old-school magazine with page after page of block text. No pictures ever. Nope, no pictures for this guy because things like pictures, photos, images, diagrams, or charts—those were…

  • Using Tech to Create Connections—Connecting Teacher and Student

    We’ve all seen people type things at a keyboard that they would never say in person. We’ve all seen parents ignore their children or spouses ignore each other because their screens commanded their attention instead. We’ve all seen the criticism of remote learning and its difficulty in replicating the personal interaction that the face-to-face classroom…