Practicum Report #4 (Joel)
A. Time Spent This Week: 6 (Sunday school=1.5; band rehearsal=2; evening service=2.5)
B. My Class This Week:
1. Before Class. As usual, I started off the morning playing basketball with some students. At first it was just a high schooler and I shooting hoops but as 9am approached, most of the middle schoolers came into the gym too. The high schooler I was shooting with wasn't the same one as last week - I didn't see him this time. Grant was the first middle schooler to show up and the three of up shot hoops for 10-15 minutes before anyone else showed up. The teacher for the class-my supervisor-and the other adult helpers are always there but never early and rarely on time. It's unfortunate, I think, that they don't show up early to spend some time just hanging out with the kids. The best teachers/mentors I have had were the ones who spent time with me.
2. Class Time. In my group, this week, we looked at the beginning verses of Mark 5 when Jesus casts out a demon. We've been looking at passages from the Gospels every week since I've been there. I think we're following a teaching book with some kind of theme. My supervisor mentioned something about it but hasn't been very clear on what the theme for these next few months is. Class began with us splitting up into three small groups. Each of us were given straws and marshmallows and told to make a structure at least 4 inches off of the ground in order to be able to hold a Bible. My supervisor didn't bring a lightweight Bible and so every group's structure broke under the weight of it. To be honest, I'm not even sure what the point of the activity was. We never came back to it after all of them failed and I'm not sure if that's because (1) it was supposed to work and since it didn't he didn't want to go back to it or (2) it had no relevance to begin with. Either way I was confused as I'm sure the students were too.
David, Grant, Megan, and Meagan were the students in my group this week. Each week we pass around a paper for prayer requests and one of them specifically caught my eye. Meagan's request for her dad. He works for UPS and plows roads on the side and isn't getting much sleep at all. It made me think about this community of Marion and how many parents are struggling just to put food on the table.
C. My Questions This Week
1. How can we begin to move away from the "typical" Sunday school questions and topics and try to get more in depth even at a young age? Can we go further in depth at this age?
2. Is the fact that everything we do seems typical and redundant just my being older and remembering going through these same questions at that age? Or is Sunday school a very surfacy thing?
B. My Class This Week:
1. Before Class. As usual, I started off the morning playing basketball with some students. At first it was just a high schooler and I shooting hoops but as 9am approached, most of the middle schoolers came into the gym too. The high schooler I was shooting with wasn't the same one as last week - I didn't see him this time. Grant was the first middle schooler to show up and the three of up shot hoops for 10-15 minutes before anyone else showed up. The teacher for the class-my supervisor-and the other adult helpers are always there but never early and rarely on time. It's unfortunate, I think, that they don't show up early to spend some time just hanging out with the kids. The best teachers/mentors I have had were the ones who spent time with me.
2. Class Time. In my group, this week, we looked at the beginning verses of Mark 5 when Jesus casts out a demon. We've been looking at passages from the Gospels every week since I've been there. I think we're following a teaching book with some kind of theme. My supervisor mentioned something about it but hasn't been very clear on what the theme for these next few months is. Class began with us splitting up into three small groups. Each of us were given straws and marshmallows and told to make a structure at least 4 inches off of the ground in order to be able to hold a Bible. My supervisor didn't bring a lightweight Bible and so every group's structure broke under the weight of it. To be honest, I'm not even sure what the point of the activity was. We never came back to it after all of them failed and I'm not sure if that's because (1) it was supposed to work and since it didn't he didn't want to go back to it or (2) it had no relevance to begin with. Either way I was confused as I'm sure the students were too.
David, Grant, Megan, and Meagan were the students in my group this week. Each week we pass around a paper for prayer requests and one of them specifically caught my eye. Meagan's request for her dad. He works for UPS and plows roads on the side and isn't getting much sleep at all. It made me think about this community of Marion and how many parents are struggling just to put food on the table.
C. My Questions This Week
1. How can we begin to move away from the "typical" Sunday school questions and topics and try to get more in depth even at a young age? Can we go further in depth at this age?
2. Is the fact that everything we do seems typical and redundant just my being older and remembering going through these same questions at that age? Or is Sunday school a very surfacy thing?
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