Bible Teaching Methods - Teacher Training Resources
Use Variety & Creativity in Methodology
The resources on this page provide general information about Bible teaching methods to help you address issues related to methodology to bring more creativity and variety into your teaching.
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- Teaching Methods: So Many Possibilities!
- Teaching Ruts
While some of the resources listed below help with specific methods, other pages listed in the 'teacher training resources categories' section will provide additional help on specific methods such as crafts, discussion, drama, games, guided conversation, learning centers, music, object lessons, playing, puppets, puzzles & other manipulatives, questions, and storytelling.
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Articles, Online:
General Info on Teaching Methodology
- Basic Methods - include brief points to consider for lecture, question & answer, group discussion, case study, brainstorming
- Bible Teachers Need to Incorporate Variety into Lessons
- Bible Teaching Methods - Each month a different method is posted from the Sharpening Your Bible Teaching Methods Download.
- Criteria for Choosing Bible Teaching Methods
- Engage the Senses
- Low Tech Teaching in a High Tech World? - Methodology
- Methodology in the Teaching-Learning Process
- The Method of the Master
- Using Creative Teaching Methods
Geared to Specific Age Levels
- Adults: Methods for Adult Bible Classes
- Children: Does your children's class have the BLAs?
- Children: Methods for Preschoolers
- Children: Methods for Grade School Children
- Teens: Methods for Teens
Books:
- Adventures in Creative Teaching by Victor Books (geared to ages 4-12)
- Creative Teaching Methods by Marlene D. LeFever
- More Than Glue and Glitter by Debbie Trafton O'Neal
- 24 Ways to Improve Your Teaching by Kenneth O. Gangel
- 40 Ways to Teach in Groups by Martha Leypoldt
- How to Do Bible Learning Activities: Ages 2-5 by Karen Klein
- How to Do Bible Learning Activities: Grades 1-6 by Barbara J. Bolton
- How to Do Bible Learning Activities: Grades 7-12 by Ed Steward, Neal McBride
- How to Do Bible Learning Activities: Adult by Ed Steward, Neal McBride
Computer/Online:
- Different Teaching Methods - Session 3 of Principles of Bible Teaching - classroom streaming video lessons
Group Training, In-House:
- Interactive Learning: The Latest Classroom Transformer - Scroll toward the bottom of this page and you will find an idea to training teachers for this methodology
Handouts:
- Sharpening Your Bible Teaching Methods Resource Download by Ministry Tools Resource Center
Bible teachers learn to use more variety in their teaching with this resource which provides training on 57 different teaching methods, along with an overview of group factors that should be considered in choosing methods and charts to help determine which methods are best for one's situation based on group size, objectives, age level, category, and time.
Worksheets:
- Tips for Choosing & Using Methods . . . Consider the Group Factors by Ministry Tools Resource Center
In this 10 page teacher training worksheet, Bible teachers will first consider group factors that can help determine which method to choose. (Please note that these are the same factors presented in the Sharpening Your Bible Teaching Methods Resource listed above.) Then teachers will work through four steps they can take in choosing and using teaching methods. In addition, basic definitions of 57 methods are provided that will give teachers an idea of the variety of methods they can use.