Leaderesource Purpose Statement

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Leaderesource Purpose Statement
Sunday School is a ministry strategy that exists
to assist the church in accomplishing its
God-given mission of making disciples.
Leaderesource is designed to help you as a church
leader in developing a disciple-making culture in
your church through the Sunday School ministry.
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Teaching Student Sunday School
  This one-hour teaching experience for Student
Sunday School Leadership will help you identify
specific ways to engage students in discovering
for themselves the life-changing truths of the
Bible.
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The Five Building Blocks for
Teaching Student Sunday School
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Prepare Spiritually - Personal Bible Study and
Prayer by the teacher and leaders allow spiritual
transformation to begin Students will want to
know if you really believe and practice what you
are teaching.
Preparation
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• Prepare the Ministry Environment
• How will I make the experience beneficial for
  everyone who comes?
• Consider the needs of your students
• Consider the various learning styles of your
  students

Auditory Visual
Kinesthetic
Preparation
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• Prepare the Ministry Environment
• Make a session related contact earlier in the
  week
• Postcard
• Email
• Facebook/MySpace
• Text Message
• Phone Call
• Visit
• Use a variety of ways to contact students

Preparation
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• Prepare the classroom
• Create a focal wall with the title of the unit,
  individual sessions
• Create a Prayer Board for gathering prayer
  requests
• Clear the room of all unrelated equipment and
  materials
• Set up the chairs so there can be interaction as
  appropriate during the study
• Gather all necessary art/teaching supplies prior
  to the study
• Gather the Bible Study Resources you will use
  during the study.

Preparation
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Focal Wall
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Prayer Requests
Reach Needs Connect Needs Physical Needs

Collect Prayer Requests As Students
Arrive!Enlist someone to pray at the close of
Bible Study!
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• Begin as the first student enters the room with
  learning
• Take activities from the curriculum guide and
  adapt for your students
• Help move the student toward the Biblical Truth
• Seeks to capture the attention of student as
  introduces the topic to be studied
• Forms a bridge toward the investigation of the
  text to be studied
• Prepares students to jump into Gods Word
• Raises Curiosity
• Introduce controversy or conflict

Motivation
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Chairs in two groups!
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• Consider how students learn best recall the
  learning styles of students
• Learning is experiencing through discovery
• A teachers task is to set up experiences so that
  the learner can discover for himself/herself
  the life-changing truths of the Bible
• Never tell a student something he or she can
  discover for themselves
• Students Tell Back and Demonstrate what they have
  discovered

Examination
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• Guided Discovery Process/Methods Process
• Read
• Students Read The Bible
• Research
• Bible Study tools
• Discover/Discuss
• 3-4 questions to facilitate discovery
• Create
• An interactive activity to complete to share
  discovery
• Incorporates various methods/inclusive of
  learning styles
• Use a variety of suggested methods dont be
  repetitive
• Present

Examination
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The Discovery Process
Place card in Bible with passage marked
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• Research
• Expose Students to Bible Study Tools
• Student Book
• Commentaries
• Bible Dictionary
• Concordance
• Maps
• Topical Bible
• Bible Handbook
• Study Bibles Various Translations
• Online Resources

Examination
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Bible Study Tools
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Approaches to Bible Study
Howard Gardners Multiple Intelligences
Relational
Musical
Verbal
Logical
Reflective
Natural
Visual
Physical
Learning is discovery. Teaching is
facilitating discovery!
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Learning and retention increase as direct
involvement increases. The only Bad Method is
the one you use every week.
Examination
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• Connect the truth to the lives of students as
  they go into their world
• General How the truth applies to the lives of
  all students
• Specific How the truth applies to my life today
• How will the truths of today lesson impact my
• Emotions
• Habits
• Behavior
• Service to other
• Thinking
• Relationships
• Friends (church, school, teams, clubs0
• Family
• Community

Application
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• Continuation as students seek to live out their
  faith in their day to day lives
• Teachers Key Build Relationships
• Meals, Events with Students,
• Have conversations with students about their
  spiritual lives
• Parents Communicate with Parents about what you
  are teaching
• Email
• Web-page
• Text messaging
• Connection Points

Continuation
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• Total Period Teaching plan to begin when the
  first student enters the room even if hes 10
  minutes early!
• Arrange Room For Involvement free of tables
  distractions do not use rows of chairs
• Enlist Enough Workers never teach alone
• Use all three basic learning styles in every
  lesson
• Use a variety of ways to create teams for
  assignments
• Ask questions about the lesson to keep the group
  activity moving

Guiding Student Behavior
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• When they are working in teams ask adults to
  wander around the room asking questions that
  keep them working
• Make Announcements at the end of the lesson
  preferably have them in print students forget
  the details!
• Prayer Requests have a board on the wall for
  students to write requests rather than going
  around the room sharing requests then have a
  student enlisted to pray for the request a the
  end of the lesson spend time praying rather
  than talking about the prayer requests.

Guiding Student Behavior
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Written Announcements Distribute at the end of
the study! Pass Out To Parents As Well!
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Do your best to present yourself to God as one
approved, a workman who does not need to be
ashamed and who correctly handles the word of
truth. 2 Timothy 215 (NIV)
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Bible Study RESOURCES
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A Ministry Of

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