SCC Teacher Training
Children Coming to Jesus
Matthew 19:14
Luke 6:40
“A DISCIPLE IS NOT ABOVE HIS
TEACHER, BUT EVERYONE WHEN HE IS
FULLY TRAINED WILL BE LIKE HIS
TEACHER.”
James 2:1
NOT MANY OF YOU SHOULD
BECOME TEACHERS, MY BROTHERS,
FOR YOU KNOW THAT WE WHO
TEACH WILL BE JUDGED WITH
GREATER STRICTNESS.
The Seven Laws of
Teaching
John Milton Gregory (1822-1898)
1. Law of the Teacher
A teacher must be one who knows the lesson
or truth or art to be taught.
The Law of the Teacher
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If you stop growing today, you stop teaching
tomorrow
Luke 6:40: “Everyone who is fully trained will
be like his teacher.”
If you want to help others to follow Jesus, ask
God first of all to help you follow Jesus. You
cannot make a disciple until you are one.
He will use you as His instrument, but He will
sharpen and cleanse that instrument to make it
a more effective tool in His hands. Embrace
that!
The Law of the Teacher –
How?
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“… effective teaching comes only through a changed person. The
more you change, the more you become an instrument of change in
the lives of others. If you want to become a change agent, you also
must change.” Look at 2 Tim. 3:16 - DiReCT
The two factors that will influence you the most in the years ahead
are the books you read and the people you’re around.
“Experience does not necessarily make you better; in fact it tends
to make you worse, unless it’s evaluated experience. The good
teacher’s greatest threat is satisfaction – the failure to keep asking,
‘How can I improve?”
A good teacher learns “where” a student is, knows where they need
to go and becomes intent on getting them there quickly and joyfully
– but, a teacher only knows the way if they have been there before.
2. Law of the Learner
A learner is one who attends with interest to the
lesson.
The Law of the Learner
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The ship needs a captain and you cannot get
underway until all hands are on deck – so, do not
begin a class until all eyes are on you, all ears
open and all mouths muted.
Silence can be a great silencer!
Pause if needed to re-gather the troops.
Never try to teach on credit – only spend the
attention that they have!
Appeal to their sense of wonder and amazement
to keep their attention. Remember, they are still
young enough to be amazed by new and amazing
things.
The Law of the Learner: Encouragement
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Teaching tends to be most effective
when the learner is properly
motivated.
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Extrinsic motivation : motivation from without.
Intrinsic motivation : motivation from within.
Developing a strong sense of felt
need: people will not learn what they
have no felt need for, and will invest
themselves in learning that for which
they do have a felt need.
The Law of the Learner: Encouragement
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The key question is: Are you
motivated? – Motivated people
become change agent.
If one-tenth of what you believe is
true, you ought to be ten times as
excited as you are.
3. Law of the Language
The language used as a medium between the
teacher and the learner must be common to
both.
The Law of the Language
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Communication is the reason for our
existence as teachers. – It’s also our number
one teaching problem.
To truly impart information requires the
building of bridges. This means really
knowing one’s students, which in itself
means spending time with them outside the
classroom. Communication will be more
effective to the degree that it is something
the teacher deeply knows, feels and does.
The Law of the Language –
Intellect, Emotion, and Volition
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All communication has three essential
components: intellect, emotion, and volition
– thought, feeling, and action.
Whatever it is I want to communicate to
another individual, it involves
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… something I know,
… something I feel,
… and something I’m doing.
4. Law of the Lesson
The lesson to be mastered must be explicable
in terms of truth already known by the learnerthe unknown must be explained by means of
the known.
The Law of Lesson in Action
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Maximum learning is always the result of
maximum involvement. Students will learn
best as they are most active in the process.
They need to be guided in their practice,
taught to properly evaluate their experience,
and learn not by repeating their mistakes but
by doing the right things.
Hearing is the most inefficient means of
learning – people only retain at the most 10%
of what they hear. But they will retain up to
50% of what they see and up to 90% of what
they do.
The Law of Lesson in Action–
Quality Activity
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Purposeful activity implies quality activity.
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Practice makes better.
Experience is the best teacher.
We learn by doing.
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-Well-guided practice makes better
-Properly evaluated experience is the best teacher
-We learn by doing the right things
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5. Law of the Teaching
Process
Teaching is using the pupil’s mind to grasp the
desired thought or to master the desired art.
The Law of Teaching Process
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How people learn determines how you teach
– stimulating and directing the learner’s selfactivities.
The teacher must excite and direct the
learner’s self-activities, tell the learner
nothing – and do nothing for him – that he
can learn or do for himself.
What’s important is not what you do as a
teacher, but what the learners do as a result of
what you do.
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The Law of Teaching Process –
Think, Learn & Work
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Basic goals:
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Teach people how to think – If you want to
change a person permanently, make sure his
thinking changes, and not merely his behavior.
Teach people how to learn – Create learners
who will perpetuate the learning process for
the rest of their lives.
Teach people how to work – never doing
anything for a student that he is capable of
doing for himself.
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6. Law of the Learning
Process
Learning is thinking into one’s own
understanding a new idea or truth.
The Law of the Learning Process
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This is when your lesson becomes their
truth
Teaching exists to change lives
Remember Luke 6:40: “Everyone who
is fully trained will be like his teacher.”
This is when the student can become a
teacher for themselves and for others
Where Learning Happens
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Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart
to heart.
Plato’s triumvirate of ethos (character/credibility),
pathos (compassion) and logos (content). Ethos,
pathos and logos are like a pyramid where each is
dependent upon the previous. – Character,
Compassion, Content.
Without the foundation of character/credibility, there
will not be the confidence in the teacher which is
foundational to the implicit contract between teacher
and student.
The student needs to know that the teacher cares
about him, and third of course, is content.
The need of Readiness
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The teaching-learning process will be
most effective when both student and
teacher are adequately prepared.
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Assignments
precipitate thinking – assignments are
mental warm-up.
 They provide a background, a foundation on
which to build.
 They develop habits of independent study – and
this is the most important benefit of good
assignments.
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7. Law of Review and
Application
The test of teaching done must be a reviewing,
rethinking, reknowing, reproducing and
applying of the material that has been taught.
Good Assignments
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The characteristics of good
assignments:
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They must be creative, not simply busy
work. Need a clear objective for the
assignments; designed with a purpose.
They must be thought-provoking. They
should question more answers rather than
answer more questions. Stretch the
learners’ minds.
Assignments must be doable.
it’s a Trinity thing . . .
WHY? . .
SCC Teacher Training
Children Coming to Jesus
Matthew 19:14