Tag: teaching

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,”…

  • 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…

  • Online Bible Studies – Bringing the Word Into Homes

    The world’s normalcy has come to a screeching halt and we are now driving down a different road. We’re in territory probably none of us imagined six months ago. Church buildings sit silent. School classrooms are soundless. Bible study gatherings with snacks, sipping coffee, studying Scripture, and everyone sitting in the same room seem like…