As you arrive:

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Welcome!

• As you arrive
• Make a name tag
• Find a partner and
• complete the
• Triads Savvy
• worksheet

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The Discover Triad
The discover triad can be compared to a
musical chord
Shepherding
Stories
Scripture
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The Discover Triad
Scripture
Shepherding
Scripture
Shepherding
Stories
Stories
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Timeless Principles of the Sunday School Movement

• Heart
• Heartbeat
• Focus
• Genius
• Mark of a Dynamic Sunday School Class
• pp.8-10

• Scripture is the
• Teachers are the
• Learners are the
• The Class is the
• Discovery is the

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The Discover Triad
Scripture is about Bible study and discovering
truths Scripture comes alive in the context of
the stories of the learners. p. 6
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Discovering Scripture

• Never tell anyone anything
• that you can lead him to discover for himself.
• p. 10

Brainstorm Advantages Disadvantages of
Discovery Teaching
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Discovering Scripture

• If we want spiritual transformation to take place
  in the lives of our listeners, we must allow them
  to become learners. Many believers walk in and
  out of churches week after week with no real
  learning because we have not allowed or
  challenged them to become learners.
• George Yates
• pp. 10-11

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Discovering Scripture

• A modern paraphrase of James 122
• Our final exam
• will not be about
• how much Bible we learned,
• but
• how much Bible we lived.
• p. 13

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Elements of Discovery Teaching and Learning

• Questions
• Used by Jesus Luke 10-25-37
• Appropriate for All Ages
• and Learning Styles

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Elements of Discovery Teaching and Learning

• Questions
• Learner Participation
• How can learners in your class
• be active participants?
• p.15

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Elements of Discovery Teaching and Learning

• Questions
• Learner Participation
• Learner Preparation
• How can we communicate
• The expectation that learners
• will prepare?
• pp. 17-18

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Elements of Discovery Teaching and Learning

• Questions
• Learner participation
• Learner preparation
• Connecting a stand-alone lesson
• Understanding the big picture
• Identify at least one way to connect next
  Sundays lesson to the unit of study for the big
  picture

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Elements of Discovery Teaching and Learning

• Questions
• Learner participation
• Learner preparation
• Connecting a stand-alone lesson
• Move beyond the lecture
• Problems of Lecture
• Values of Lecture
• p. 20

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The Discover Triad
Jesus did not come merely to be the subject of a
story, or just to tell stories, but to impact our
stories. p. 23
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Discovering Stories

• Stories
• Connecting Scripture with Experience p. 23
• Connecting Peoples Journeys p. 24
• Sharing our Pilgrimages of Faith pp. 25-26

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Discovering Stories

• Stories Build Community Story sharing
• may help
• Humanize strangers and those different from us
• Level the playing field for outsiders
• Foster empathy, human connections, relationships
• Open minds and hearts
• Deepen appreciation of differences and
  commonality
• Dolly Berthelot p. 27

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Discovering Stories
pp. 28-29
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Discovering Stories

• Everyone has stories!
• Stories come from four basic sources
• Your ancestry
• Your family
• The place where you live
• Your own personal experience
• p. 28

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The Discover Triad
The part of the Discover Triad that pulls it all
together is shepherding. p. 32
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Discovering Shepherding

• You can be a teacher without
• being a shepherd,
• but
• you cant be a shepherd
• without being a teacher.
• p. 33

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Discovering Shepherding

• Teachers
• Comfortable behind a lectern
• Looks for immediate response
• Hours of preparation

• Shepherds
• Most comfortable sitting among the sheep
• Content to watch people make incremental progress
• Enough preparation to feed flock what they need
• p. 35

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Discovering Shepherding

• Tools for Shepherding
• My FRAN Prayer List, pp. 29-20
• Friends, Relatives, Associates, Neighbors
• Care Group Member Pages, p. 41

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Knowing this is my primary teaching style, how
can I be sure to include all three Scripture,
Stories, Shepherding?

• Teachers
• Comfortable behind a lectern
• Looks for immediate response
• Hours of preparation

• Shepherds
• Most comfortable sitting among the sheep
• Content to watch people make incremental progress
• Enough preparation to feed flock what they need
• p. 35

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The Discover Triad