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ABCs of Teaching Children

This document provides an alphabetized list of tips for teaching children, with each letter of the alphabet corresponding to a short teaching principle or best practice. Some of the tips include preparing well in advance, believing God will work through your teaching, caring about each individual child, daring to give children the opportunity to accept Christ, enjoying teaching and your students, and focusing your lesson on strengthening the main truth or aim.

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ABCs of Teaching Children

This document provides an alphabetized list of tips for teaching children, with each letter of the alphabet corresponding to a short teaching principle or best practice. Some of the tips include preparing well in advance, believing God will work through your teaching, caring about each individual child, daring to give children the opportunity to accept Christ, enjoying teaching and your students, and focusing your lesson on strengthening the main truth or aim.

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ABC's of Teaching Children

A Always prepare well in advance of your class:


B Believe God will do a mighty work through you.
C Care about each child you are teaching.
D Dare to give children the opportunity to receive Christ as Savior.
E Enjoy teaching and your pupils.
F Forget your problems, anxieties and worries.
G Get excited about the lesson you are teaching.
H Have a heart for the things of God.
I Invite children to come to your class and encourage your pupils to invite
others.
J J udge not little ones who believe in Jesus.
K Kid around a little, in a manner pleasing to God.
L Love all your students and tell them you love them.
M Memorize Scripture and encourage your pupils to do the same.
N Never make fun of a child.
O Openly share true-life experiences and tell how God carried you
through them.
P Pray for each child daily.
Q Quit trying to do God's work on your own merit; let God's power work in
and through you.
R Remember you are a vessel that God is using to glorify Jesus Christ.
S Sit down and evaluate your teaching and the learning accomplishments
of your pupils.
T Tell your Bible story: don't read it.
U Understand the backgrounds, personalities, etc., of your students.
V Visit the homes of the children you minister to.
W Wait on the Lord for the Holy Spirit's working in each of the children's
lives.
X eXercise control of your students and yourself.
Y You are you, don't try to be someone else; use your personality in the
best way.
Z Zero in on your lesson aim, so that the entire class period strengthens
the truth of your lesson.

Reprinted from the Newsletter of the Commission On Religious Education, Romanian Episcopate of America
(OCA), Vol. VI I , No. 2, Spring/Summer, 1984, by Phyllis Meshel Onest, M.Div. 2003.

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