Classroom Discipline Bible Teacher Training Resources
Classroom discipline, especially in Sunday School or other Bible classes, needs to get beyond crowd control and mere punitive reactions to misbehavior. Effective disciplining requires more than an arsenal of tactics. We can use these situations as opportunities to help students become more Christ-like.
Gain a Comprehensive View of Classroom Discipline
Bible teachers need help with an overall perspective on discipline as well as how to deal with specific issues. The Classroom Discipline Bundle provides this more comprehensive understanding of behavior and our role in discipling students through discipline. We need to follow our Lord's example. -- "God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness." (Heb. 12:5-11)
General Help for Classroom Discipline
Below you will find help with the bigger picture in classroom discipline. If you're looking for help with specific issues, click here.
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Articles, Hardcopy:
- Teacher Training Smart Pages--Book and CD-ROM - Book with Reproducible Articles & Forms by Sheryl Haystead (See the Table of Contents on that page for articles included on discipline.)
Articles, Online:
- 3 Tips for Ministering to the Problem Child
- 4 Tips for Maintaining Order
- 5 Key Elements in an Approach to Classroom Discipline
- 6 Ways to Love Kids With Challenging Behavior
- 8 Building Blocks for Effective Discipline
- 9 Solutions to Common Classroom Discipline Issues
- 10 Classroom Management Tricks That Work
- 10 Things Not to Say When Disciplining
- 10 Ways to Manage Behavior Problems in Sunday School
- An Umbrella for Classroom Discipline
- Basics for Classroom Discipline
- Basic Understandings
- Basic Goals
- Basic Structure
- Basic Environment
- Basic Out-of-Class Strategies
- Basic In-Class Strategies
- Classroom Discipline Must Get Beyond
- Classroom Management And Discipline In The Sunday School
- Dealing with the Root Cause of Problem Behavior
- Discipline Tips for Children's Ministers
- Discipline with Youth: Preventive Discipline
- FAQ about Classroom Discipline
- From Chaos to Control in Your Classroom
- Help with Classroom Discipline
- Hidden Messages in Disciplining
- How to Handle Discipline Problems in Kids Church
- How To Manage Behavior in Children's Church: Preventative Strategies
- Questions About Specific Classroom Discipline Issues
- Quick Solutions or Real Change in Classroom Discipline?
- Secrets to Resolve Challenging Behavior in Children’s Ministry
- Setting Biblical Rules
- Time-Outs: Yea or Nay?
- Tips for Working with Youth and Handling Discipline Problems
- Why Do They Do That: Understanding Bad Behavior
- Why Kids Misbehave - How to Translate the Behavior Signals Kids Are Sending
Books:
- Handbook on the Basics of Classroom Discipline by Ministry Tools Resource Center
If you try to transplant flowers with hardly any roots, the flowers often don't make it. Occasionally this kind of transplant will thrive without much trouble but usually you have some work ahead of you -- extra watering and fertilizing. So, in disciplining, if you do not have healthy roots, managing the classroom will be an uphill battle. Many teachers will get so frustrated and discouraged that they quit. In this handbook you will find forty pages of training with 30 classroom discipline tips for effectively managing the classroom.
- Boundaries With Kids by Henry Cloud & John Townsend
- The Discipline Guide for Children's Ministry by Jody Capehart, Gordon West, Lois Keffer
- The Quick Guide to Discipline for Children's Ministry: 101 Good Ideas for Bad Behavior by Group Publishing
- When Church Kids Go Bad: How To Love and Work With Rude, Obnoxious, and Apathetic Students by Les Christie - deals with teens
Computer/Online:
- Discipline: Tips for Influencing Classroom Behavior - This is a 20 minute online seminar designed to inform the teacher of positive practices that will help diminish problems during class time by Child Evangelism Fellowship
Handout:
- Take-Out Training for Teachers by Group Publishing --Book and CD-ROM - Book with Reproducible Worksheet Training Sessions (See the Table of Contents for sessions on 'Discipline in a Learning Environment.')
Videos, DVD:
- Online Video: Classroom Management: Building a Kingdom Culture - by Dick Crider from Discipleland
Workbooks:
- Effectively Handling Classroom Discipline Workbook by Ministry Tools Resource Center
In this 97-page teacher training workbook, Bible teachers will learn to get beyond mere tactics or crowd control to a more comprehensive style of classroom management using a biblical grid. Teachers can make a difference in the lives of students even in the process of disciplining.
Worksheets:
- Biblical Authority versus the Authoritarian and Permissive Teachers -- How You Manage the Classroom Teaches by Ministry Tools Resource Center
If Bible teachers are not exercising Biblical Authority then students might be receiving conflicting messages between what is communicated in the lesson and what a teacher does. This 3-page worksheet includes a comparison chart showing the effects of different ways to manage the classroom.
Also Check Out: Specific Discipline Issues