How to Teach Religion: Principles and MethodsBetts, George Herbert
Religion
How to Teach Religion: Principles and Methods
Betts, George Herbert
Religion -- Study and teaching; Religious education
FOR FURTHER READING
Betts, The Recitation.
Hamilton, The Recitation.
Home, Story-Telling, Questioning and Studying.
St. John, Stories and Story-Telling.
Houghton, Telling Bible Stories.
INDEX
ADOLESCENCE, subject matter for, 117
AIM, the
the child determining, 30
of religious instruction, 42
religious habits as, 193
APPRECIATION
as an aim of instruction, 86
cultivating religious, 194
APPROACH, psychological mode of, 52
ART
in religious teaching, 72
types of in curriculum, 125
ASSIGNMENT of lesson, 197
ATTITUDES
religious as aim, 45
to be cultivated, 76
toward the school, 77
the child's spiritual, 84
BIBLE, the
the teacher's knowledge of, 23
the child's knowledge of, 68
continuing interest in, 82
as a source of material, 111
and reason, 167
CONSERVATION, religious, 33
CHILD, the
as a Christian, 34
his concept of God, 59
his concept of religion, 63
the teacher's knowledge of, 25
as the great objective, 30
and his spiritual growth, 31
CHRISTIAN, the child, 34
CHURCH, the
the child's knowledge of, 69
participation in activities of, 101
loyalty to, 88
DANGER POINTS
in instruction, 161
how avoided, 162
DEDUCTION, in religion, 190
DISTRACTIONS
freedom from in recitation, 155
avoiding unnecessary, 156
DRAMATIC, the
children and, 176
use of in teaching, 176
DRILL, place of, 192
DUTY, as a virtue, 99
EXPRESSION
religious in the home, 106
as a mode of learning, 44
in social service, 101
GIVING, training in, 104
GOD
the child's concept of, 59
harm from wrong concepts of, 60
made the daily counselor, 100
HABIT
preventing the, of defeat, 81
religious, as aim, 93
the growth of, 94
HEROES, appeal of to child, 89
HOME, religious expression in, 106
IDEALS, 85
IMAGINATION
use of in religion, 170
how to appeal to, 172
INDUCTION, use of in religion, 187
INSTRUCTION
response as a test of, 53
various tests of, 56, 107
INTEREST
as a test of attitude, 79
in the Bible, 82
how to appeal to, 151
JESUS, an ideal teacher, 217
KNOWLEDGE
religious as an aim, 44
of most worth, 58
of the Bible, 67
of the church, 69
LABORATORY, work in religion, 102
LESSONS
Uniform, the, 134
Graded, the, 134
in text book form, 134
different types of, 183
LIFE
requirements of for religion, 43
religious teaching and, 91
a code for, 95
LOTI, PIERRE, quoted, 61
LOYALTY, cultivation of, 88
MATERIAL, for instruction
means instead of end, 35
adapting to child, 50
chapter on, 109
sources of, in
in story form, 118
organization of, 126
MEASURES
of success, 38
of child's progress, 39
MEMORY, the
laws of, 177
training of, 179
METHOD
of the recitation, 201
the topical, 202
the lecture, 204
the question-and-answer, 206
the story, 212
MUSIC
in worship, 72
in the curriculum, 126
NATURE, as a source of material, 122
NEGLECT, and stress of subject matter, 51
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