Tag: bible study
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Universal Design For Learning, Part Two
Imagine that you’re planning a trip for your family to travel from Wisconsin to Florida. To get there, you could travel directly through states like Illinois, Tennessee, and Georgia. Or if you were so inclined, you could head east toward Washington, D.C., and then south skirting the Atlantic. Or you could head southwest toward Houston…
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Universal Design for Learning, Part One
Imagine taking a dozen sixth graders out for ice cream. Their eyes light up as they view their choices on the menu board behind the counter and the various flavors displayed in the cooler case in front of them. Chocolate peanut butter, birthday cake, mint chocolate chip—and a host of others. What’s more, some might…
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Five Things With a Young Pastor
FIVE resources you’d recommend for educators who teach adults. First Days of School by Harry K. Wong and Rosemary T. Wong. This book helps me survive my first weeks of catechism class every year. If you don’t want to read the book, just search Harry K. Wong on YouTube or in your favorite podcast app. I learn every…
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Five Things With One More Veteran Pastor
FIVE individuals who were instrumental in your development as an educator and why. My dad—he was principal and taught grades 6-8 at St. Paul Lutheran School in South Haven, MI. Watching him in action and his dedication to ministry taught me a lot about what teaching was all about. Prof. Mike Hein at MLS taught…
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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…
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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…
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The Four Tools: Research
If you want the highest activity by each learner, what is your go-to tool? It’s research. Research is the fourth, and final, tool in our educator’s toolbox. Past articles have dealt with Lecture, Question/Answer (Questions, Open Questions, and Bad Answers), and Group Work.) What do we mean by research? When we hear the word “research,”…
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The Four Tools: Group Work
In past articles we’ve dealt with the first two tools in the adult educators’ toolbox: Lecture and Question/Answer (Questions, Open Questions, and Bad Answers). Today we’ll consider tool #3, Group Work. Why use group work? Let’s imagine that there is a woman who is pregnant for the first time, and she’s wondering what childbirth itself…