Training the TeacherLamoreaux, Antoinette Abernethy
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Training the Teacher
Lamoreaux, Antoinette Abernethy
Bible -- Study and teaching; Sunday schools
This method may be followed in the case of each of the Bible lessons.
The blackboard outline for the entire first lesson would appear about
as follows, after being built up step by step:
The Old Testament Division
_Prelude._--Story of Creation (Genesis 1, 2)
_First Period_--Adam
{Human race
The beginning of {Sin
{Redemption
_Second Period_--Noah--the flood
Tower of Babel--confusion of tongues
(Genesis 6-11)
_Third Period_--Abraham--chosen family
Egypt--prosperity--oppression
Moses--Exodus
Journeys
Canaan
Judges
(Genesis 12 to Judges 1:21)
_Fourth Period_--Saul--David--Solomon
(1 Sam. 10 to 1 Kings 12)
_Fifth Period_--Captivity--return
Ezra, Nehemiah
(2 Kings 25)
Each leader will thus be enabled to use the blackboard in his own way,
basing the drill on the outline material at the beginning of each
chapter; this blackboard review will be brought to the students with a
freshness not secured when suggested outlines are printed with each
lesson.
#Familiarity with maps# should be encouraged at every point. The
leader may accustom the class to the question, "Where is that place?"
nearly every time a town or locality is named. The average beginner in
Bible study is afraid of a map; the more familiar he becomes with
these maps, the more confidence he will have in his own Bible
knowledge.
#The New Testament Section.#--In the several chapters beginning on
page 71 the historical outline consists of a harmony of the Gospels.
It is not intended that the student shall memorize this harmony; but
the ability to reproduce from memory the journey map published in
connection with each section of the harmony would give the student a
very helpful grasp on the order of events in the life of Christ. The
use of a journey map as a basis for telling the story of a chosen
period will fix events and geographical location in mind at the same
time.
The Pupil
The lessons on The Pupil enter a field of study with which the average
teacher is perhaps less familiar than with the Bible section. Hence
the leader will do well to begin slowly and to allow plenty of time
for discussion in the class. Professional teachers who have studied
the science of psychology may be very helpful in occasional talks to
the class, provided you are assured in advance that they will not
confuse the students by the use of technical terms. Such talks from
outsiders should be brief, and confined to one phase of the subject,
and time should be allowed for questions by the students and informal
discussion.
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