Tips for teaching

[rockgod214]

I just started teaching a rite-13 program in my church and I have never taught anything besides martial arts before, so I was wondering if someone could give me some tips so that I can do a good job with these kids

 

[Robinsegg]

I don't know what that program is, nor the ages of the kids involved. Here are a few basic thoughts, though:
1. Make simple rules and stick to them. Consistency is important for kids.
2. Follow through with consequences for both good and bad behavior. If you say you'll do it, be prepared to do it.
3. Treat the kids with respect. Even 2 year olds like to be treated nicely.
4. Kids are young, inexperienced and ignorant, but they're not stupid.
5. There are 3 learning styles: visual, auditory (hearing) and kinesthetic (feeling/doing). If you include something for each of those in each lesson, you'll keep the kids' attention better.
6. Kids respect honesty. If you don't know, admit it and find the answer. If you've made a mistake, admit it and apologize.

Rachel

 

[hogndog]

For a book written by a man that was gifted with both wit and wisdom, have a look at his work.



WHEN a man has a particularly empty head, he generally sets up for a great judge, especially in religion. None is so wise as the man who knows nothing. His ignorance is the mother of his impudence and the nurse of his obstinacy; and though he does not know a bee from a bull's foot, he settles matters as if all wisdom were at his fingers' ends—the Pope himself is not more infallible. Hear him talk after he has been at a meeting and heard a sermon, and you will know how to pull a good man to pieces if you never knew it before. He sees faults where there are none; and if there be a few things amiss, he makes every mouse into an elephant. Although you might put all his wit into an eggshell, he weighs the sermon in the balances of his conceit with all the airs of a born-and-bred Solomon. If it be up to his standard, he lays on his praise with a trowel; but if it be not to his taste, he growls and barks and snaps at it like a dog at a hedgehog. Wise men in this world are like trees in a hedge; there is only here and there one. When these rare men talk together upon a discourse, it is good for the ears to hear them; but the bragging wiseacres 1 am speaking of are vainly puffed up by their fleshly minds, and their quibbling is as senseless as the cackle of geese on a common. Nothing comes out of a sack but what was in it; and as their bag is empty, they shake nothing but wind out of it. It is very likely that neither ministers nor their sermons are perfect—the best garden may have a few weeds in it, the cleanest corn may have some chaff—but cavaliers cavil at anything or nothing, and find fault for the sake of showing off their deep knowledge. Sooner than let their tongues have a holiday, they would complain that the grass is not a nice shade of blue and say that the sky would have looked neater if it had been whitewashed.

Jesus is our best teacher and friend.
Were you called to be a teacher?

In Christ,
Lee

 

[stafy]

Dear Rockdog214,
If you are teaching martial arts still and have not repented, then you should not be allowed to teach anything in Gods house. You are a double minded man, you have a foot in both camps, one in satan's camp ( martial arts) and one in Gods, chosse this day whom you will sever, and then commit yourself whole heartedly to that camp.

 

[Robinsegg]

Dear Rockdog214,
If you are teaching martial arts still and have not repented, then you should not be allowed to teach anything in Gods house. You are a double minded man, you have a foot in both camps, one in satan's camp ( martial arts) and one in Gods, chosse this day whom you will sever, and then commit yourself whole heartedly to that camp.

Wouldn't there be a nicer way to say this? After all . . . he's new to all this, posts that affirm his decision to follow Christ in service to Him should be encouraged. That post seems (while sharing valuable information) to tear down rather than build up.

Rachel

 

[everready]

I don't know what that program is, nor the ages of the kids involved. Here are a few basic thoughts, though:
1. Make simple rules and stick to them. Consistency is important for kids.
2. Follow through with consequences for both good and bad behavior. If you say you'll do it, be prepared to do it.
3. Treat the kids with respect. Even 2 year olds like to be treated nicely.
4. Kids are young, inexperienced and ignorant, but they're not stupid.
5. There are 3 learning styles: visual, auditory (hearing) and kinesthetic (feeling/doing). If you include something for each of those in each lesson, you'll keep the kids' attention better.
6. Kids respect honesty. If you don't know, admit it and find the answer. If you've made a mistake, admit it and apologize.

Rachel

Here is some audio and some visual. Jesus goes everywhere with me for I am not ashamed of the
gospel. The closer you draw near him the more love
jpy and peace you will have. Now watch what he did for us just so we could be his friend.

In Christ,
Lee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARELfp15zbc

 

[Teshi]

Never lose your temper with the kids, no matter how provoked you are.

I'm in my fourth year as a classroom teacher, and that's the single most important piece of advice I could give any new teacher.

 

[everready]

Never lose your temper with the kids, no matter how provoked you are.

I'm in my fourth year as a classroom teacher, and that's the single most important piece of advice I could give any new teacher.

You can't

it into children, Jesus said , bring little children to him, and if you use the hammer and nail approach, you've offended them. And woe to him that causes offences.

 

[plmarquette]

Who is your audience?
What do they relate to/
How can you convey the message ... as simple as possible ... build upon following week
Pray before start ... ask for help
watch eyes and body language are you holding them
be sincere, share, speak of what can / should be

 

[rags71]

Be Authentic

Keep Your Points Singular

Paint Pictures With Your Words

Have fun

 

[CShephard53]

Dear Rockdog214,
If you are teaching martial arts still and have not repented, then you should not be allowed to teach anything in Gods house. You are a double minded man, you have a foot in both camps, one in satan's camp ( martial arts) and one in Gods, chosse this day whom you will sever, and then commit yourself whole heartedly to that camp.

How is knowing how to defend sin? Keep your hateful junk somewhere else.

 

[CShephard53]

I just started teaching a rite-13 program in my church and I have never taught anything besides martial arts before, so I was wondering if someone could give me some tips so that I can do a good job with these kids

Dunno what rite13 is, but I've found that kids want relationship more than they want someone telling them what to do. Yeah, there's discipline involved. But it should not trump relationship...

 

[Robinsegg]

Imo, discipline is much more effective within a relationship. If the kids know you care, they're much more likely to listen to what you have to say and want to please you.
R

 

[CShephard53]

[FONT=&quot]An excerpt from my philosophy of education:
Children cannot become more mature until we show them through our actions that we, as educators, believe it is possible. Children cannot have the perception that we are solely in charge of their education; they must know that we care as well, for without compassion and love we as educators are merely shells standing in front of students, waiting to crumble. While it is necessary for children to know that we care, it is also equally necessary that we are to be respected- not because of our authority but because we have shown ourselves worthy of their respect. Like peer-to-peer relationships, respect must be shown before it is freely given. There is a balance of these two ideas- authority and relationship.[/FONT]

 

[Inhocsigno]

rockgod214, My best advice would be to attend and sit on some classes taught by a more experienced colleague at the church (yours or another), to get a feel for how the lessons are organized and what kind of material the people in charge choose. Then ask questions after the session. It's similar to the kind of student-teaching that teachers at any kind of school do, though obviously tailored to discussing the Gospel in this case!

 

[JohnStevenson]

Dear Rockdog214,
If you are teaching martial arts still and have not repented, then you should not be allowed to teach anything in Gods house. You are a double minded man, you have a foot in both camps, one in satan's camp ( martial arts) and one in Gods

As one who has taught such diverse subjects as fire science, theology, New Testament Greek, and yes, martial arts, I don't see the issue as long as such teaching does not involve an impartation of sinful attitudes or actions.
Blessed be the LORD, my rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle (Psalm 144:1).

 

[suestks]

Start each step with a pray for help and guildance. I include the children in my prayers to let them know that I am seeking God's help to teach them. Also in each "problem" I try to remember to pray with a child after a time out that helps them to remember to seek God first in all they do. sometime it is hard to do it everytime but it helps it be gone after the punisment is finished. May god be with you, teaching is one of the best yet hardest job you may ever do. May God be with you.
Amen

 

[Christianbelle]

Dear Rockdog214,
If you are teaching martial arts still and have not repented, then you should not be allowed to teach anything in Gods house. You are a double minded man, you have a foot in both camps, one in satan's camp ( martial arts) and one in Gods, chosse this day whom you will sever, and then commit yourself whole heartedly to that camp.

Ok, I'm lost. Why are we repenting from martial arts? Is it now considered a sin? I'm not sure, but some of the most godliest people I know participate in martial arts. I agree with what someone else said. Don't tear down, build up. It's not like he was asking your opinion on that particular matter, therefore it wasn't your place to comment or judge him. Check out Eph 4:29.

 

[CShephard53]

Why is this still continuing? The original request for advice came 5 months ago.

 

[cecillia321]

why not? so useful