THE SEVEN RULES OF TEACHING
The information on this page was adapted from an excellent teacher training book entitled, "Teach with Success" from Standard Publishing.
If the students fails to learn, we have failed to teach.
1. Know what is to be taught.
2. Gain and keep the students’ attention on the lesson.
3. Use words, terms, illustrations and methods understood in the same way by the teacher and the students. (1 Cor. 14:9)
4. Lead the student from the known to the unknown.
5. Stimulate the student’s own mind to action.
6. Require the students to reproduce in thought the lessons they are learning.
7. Repeat, Review, Reproduce the Lesson.
INDICATORS OF GOOD TEACHING
Interest, Participation, Actions in Living, Behavior
QUALIFICATIONS OF A BIBLE TEACHER
1. Must be a genuine Christian.
2. Must be enthusiastic.
3. Must be knowledgeable in the scriptures.
4. Must be prayerful.
5. Must love and have the ability to show that love.
6. Must be sympathetic and kind.
7. Must be cheerful and optimistic.
8. Must be frank and sincere.
9. Must be tactful, resourceful and diplomatic.
10. Must “practice what you teach.”
One who does not love children should not be a teacher.
The purpose of the Bible teacher is to reach and teach the lost. To be a successful teacher, you must: Know yourself, Know your students, Know the subject, and Know how to teach the subject to the pupil.
Eight Steps Toward Enthusiastic Teaching
1. Love each child in your class
2. Pray .
3. Study .
4. Prepare .
5. Teach your lesson.
Tell it as if it happened yesterday and you were an eye-witness!
6. Pray with the class.
7. Make lesson application.
8. Evaluate .
