Digital Training Presentation in four sessions for training volunteer Sunday School, children's ministry, and youth ministry teachers.
Each session includes a PowerPoint presentation, with speaker's notes and links to pdf handouts for attendees. You can use these sessions as a full day workshop, or break them into independent training sessions. Customize each session for your audience.
Learning Styles:
Details 7 learning styles that apply to all ages
Lists examples of how to teach in each style
Lists prevention techniques to avoid problems with each style
Shows how Jesus used each style
Tips for incorporating each style into adult classes
Ways for the trainer to demonstrate each style in the course of the training
*This is not a personality test, but an examination of different ways people learn and how to reach them.
Lesson Planning Techniques:
How to get a jump start on lesson planning
Prioritizing planning time
Tools for making lesson planning faster and easier
Templates to guide your planning and maximize your creative energy where it counts
Ways to involve the class in lesson crafting
Brainstorming starters
Levels of Learning:
What are the levels of learning
What ages typically reach each level
What kinds of activities assist students in reaching each level
What questions test whether the appropriate level was reached
Discipline in Sunday School:
Preparing teachers and students
Implementing discipline positively
Preventing problems
Getting Buy-In
Maintaining Consistency
Increasing Interest
*This is not a "let's not get sued" safety course for insurance purposes. It is about maintaining control of classroom behavior and connecting with students.
Download is a .zip file with PowerPointTM presentation files, as well as color pdf handouts referenced in those files. PDFs of the presentations are also included if you can't open .ppt files. Most desktop computers can unzip a compressed file. Try right-clicking on the file and choosing Extract. Otherwise, I use free software from https://www.7-zip.org/.