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How to Train Volunteer Teachers: 20 Workshops for the Sunday School

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This book explores the purposes of teaching in the church, and offers specific advice on how to recruit, train, and support volunteer teachers. These twenty stimulating, thirty-minute workshops show how to train volunteer teachers in a way that will dramatically increase the effectiveness of a Christian education program. After exploring the purposes of teaching children, youth, and adults in the church, the author offers specific advice on how to recruite, train, and support volunteer teachers. Sunday school superintendents and education chairpersons will find this information invaluable as they recruit teachers, affirm them in their ministries, and plan training events. Workshops offered in the book include: planning a session; keys to motivating students of all age groups; developing Bible skills in all age groups; storytelling in the classroom; creativity for you and your student; worship in the classroom; teaching prayer in the classroom; caring for students; teaching with questions and discussion; music in the classroom; and developing a learning center. Each workshop outline shows you which materials you will need for the workshop. One or more handouts for use in the training event are included. The book also features a bibliography of additional materials to enhance the workshops.

I did not know what to expect when I ordered this book, but it has been extremely helpful in that it gives great examples and is easy to read. I am grateful to have found this book. The structure it presents is excellent. Thanks