monastic Michael's first teaching report
Teaching Report 1
Time Spent:
1 hour-prayer and review for class, 1.5 hours Sunday school, 1.5 hours- worship service, 1.5 hour potluck after church= total= 5.5 hours this week
A. My Lesson
The college age Sunday School class goes through a exegetical type study over certain books of the Bible. This week just so happened to be over Colossians chapter four. this was the assignment i created for myself; I took Paul's back ground and context and laid it out next to the chapter. Then I looked up the verses that correlated with what I knew about Paul in chapter 4. Who knew that there would be verses that applied directly to his situation. Oh wait, That is why he wrote the letter in the first place. I found a part in verses 3 and 4 that I really wanted to emphasize. These verses described how Paul did not grumble about his chains and would rather have prayer for the Gospel to be furthered.
I started the lesson out by asking for the Holy Spirit's ears and eyes. Then I went right into the history of Paul's jailing and where he was when he wrote the letter. Did I mention this class is more of a discussion class? After every verse or point or so I gave room for discussion and insights. I tried to leave room for silence and thinking during some points of the discussion. the timer was ticking and i had quite a bit of the passage to go through yet, so I sped through the people's names and greetings Paul gave to them. I didn't mean to leave them out, I just really wanted to emphasize those first few verses.
B. Response
Overall, I think it went pretty well. isn't that what every one says though? Well I take the word "well" from watching people's expressions and interactions with the content. i feel like they reacted in the best of their abilities during an early Sunday school class. it also seemed like people were understanding the content matter and taking to their own lives.
The next three things are taken verbatim from the teacher's evaluation sheet
C. Supervising Teacher’s Evaluation
"Michael had obviously done some thoughtful preparation on the passage. He set a tone that encouraged class members to freely contribute to the discussion. In the end, he got to the meaning of the passage and made some effective applications."
D. Things I did well
"He did a good job setting up the context, as we had a number of people present who had not been there the previous wee. Colossians 4:2 mention thankfulness and Michael listed many good reasons we have to be so. after a deeper question which was follow by thoughtful silence, Michael did not jump in to supply answers, but allowed people time to reflect for themselves. Discussing verse three, we got off subject somehow. Michael gently but decisively brought us back on track. He also made a good application of Paul's prayer, application being an essential part of any study."
E. Things I need to improve
" There were a few times after a simpler question when the silence seemed too long. Perhaps rephrasing the question might help if there is no response after a while. I thought the pace was a little slow overall."
F. Questions
1. In a discussion type study how much time do you give people to think thoroughly enough not to give petty answers, but still not stretch out the thinking time?
2. What do you say to someone answering a question, or describing something, when you know they are blatantly wrong?
Time Spent:
1 hour-prayer and review for class, 1.5 hours Sunday school, 1.5 hours- worship service, 1.5 hour potluck after church= total= 5.5 hours this week
A. My Lesson
The college age Sunday School class goes through a exegetical type study over certain books of the Bible. This week just so happened to be over Colossians chapter four. this was the assignment i created for myself; I took Paul's back ground and context and laid it out next to the chapter. Then I looked up the verses that correlated with what I knew about Paul in chapter 4. Who knew that there would be verses that applied directly to his situation. Oh wait, That is why he wrote the letter in the first place. I found a part in verses 3 and 4 that I really wanted to emphasize. These verses described how Paul did not grumble about his chains and would rather have prayer for the Gospel to be furthered.
I started the lesson out by asking for the Holy Spirit's ears and eyes. Then I went right into the history of Paul's jailing and where he was when he wrote the letter. Did I mention this class is more of a discussion class? After every verse or point or so I gave room for discussion and insights. I tried to leave room for silence and thinking during some points of the discussion. the timer was ticking and i had quite a bit of the passage to go through yet, so I sped through the people's names and greetings Paul gave to them. I didn't mean to leave them out, I just really wanted to emphasize those first few verses.
B. Response
Overall, I think it went pretty well. isn't that what every one says though? Well I take the word "well" from watching people's expressions and interactions with the content. i feel like they reacted in the best of their abilities during an early Sunday school class. it also seemed like people were understanding the content matter and taking to their own lives.
The next three things are taken verbatim from the teacher's evaluation sheet
C. Supervising Teacher’s Evaluation
"Michael had obviously done some thoughtful preparation on the passage. He set a tone that encouraged class members to freely contribute to the discussion. In the end, he got to the meaning of the passage and made some effective applications."
D. Things I did well
"He did a good job setting up the context, as we had a number of people present who had not been there the previous wee. Colossians 4:2 mention thankfulness and Michael listed many good reasons we have to be so. after a deeper question which was follow by thoughtful silence, Michael did not jump in to supply answers, but allowed people time to reflect for themselves. Discussing verse three, we got off subject somehow. Michael gently but decisively brought us back on track. He also made a good application of Paul's prayer, application being an essential part of any study."
E. Things I need to improve
" There were a few times after a simpler question when the silence seemed too long. Perhaps rephrasing the question might help if there is no response after a while. I thought the pace was a little slow overall."
F. Questions
1. In a discussion type study how much time do you give people to think thoroughly enough not to give petty answers, but still not stretch out the thinking time?
2. What do you say to someone answering a question, or describing something, when you know they are blatantly wrong?
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