Motivating Students to Learn - Bible Teacher Training Resources
Sometimes Bible teachers feel like all they are doing is pushing and pulling students to learn. What will it take to motivate students?
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Articles, Online:
Geared to Any Age:
- An Often Missing Element in the Bible Learning Process
- Bible Teacher’s Role as a Motivator
- FAQ about Motivating Students
- Motivate by Connecting with Developmental Factors
- Motivate by Connecting with Interest Factors
- Motivate by Connecting with Spiritual Readiness Factors
- Motivating People to Learn
- Students Glad to Go to Class?
- Teachers' View of the Bible: It It Affects Motivations
- Trouble Motivating Students to Learn?
Geared to Children:
- 3 Simple Steps To Motivating Kids
- 5 Things You Can Do to Encourage Kids' Motivation in Children's Ministry
- Ban the Rewards
- Can the Candy ("The proliferation of bribes and gimmicks is a common scene in children's ministry today. But do the prizes and gimmicks affect children's hearts -- or only their behavior?")
- Extrinsic Motivation: Using Rewards In Children's Ministry
- How Children Are Motivated To Learn
- How to Get Kids Hooked on the Bible
- How to Make Christ Relevant to Christian Kids Who Never Miss a Sunday
- Motivating Grade School Children to Learn
- Motivating Preschoolers to Learn
- Why Bribing Kids Hurts Their Spiritual Growth
- What's Wrong With Rewards?
Geared to Teens:
Geared to Adults:
- How to Motivate Adults to Learn
- Motivating Young Adults to Learn
- Motivating Middle Aged Adults to Learn
- Motivating Senior Adults to Learn
Worksheets:
- Help! My students don't want to be here! They don't want to learn! by Ministry Tools Resource Center
In this 6 page teacher training worksheet you will look at five connections to make that increase students' motivation to learn. This worksheet can be done by an individual teacher but it would also be good to do with a partner or in a group setting wherein the questions are discussed. It could even be used as a series. You could use one of the five points per meeting.
- Motivating Students to Believe ... and act on what they believe by Ministry Tools Resource Center
To motivate students to believe in absolute truth, teachers must present them with a God big enough, great enough, powerful enough, and wise enough to have the final word, to be the ultimate standard, to have absolute authority. This 2 page teacher training worksheet, challenges teachers to make teaching of the Word more about the God of the Bible than the stories or commands.
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