Sunday School Teacher continued pupils who may know the lesson as well as you do, some who have tried but have failed to understand, some who have never looked at the lesson, some who may have some very distorted or wrong ideas given them by their non-Christian par ents to whom they have gone for help. When the pupils do the as signments after the lesson has been taught, they read the Bible with understanding because the vocabu lary has already been explained and the hard words have been pro nounced. Now the pupils are con vinced they can read and under stand the Bible. The Word of God has become real and speaks to them today. They read it with the satis faction of understanding and of ac complishment, not defeat.
class newsletter or paper. Also give each member a definite plan of Bi ble study. This should be in writing, so each member can constantly re fer to it. More effort has to be ex erted to get young people and adults to study than to get the younger groups. Following-up the assignment It is one thing to give an assign ment, it is another to get the pupils to do the work. Here are a few sug gestions given by others who have succeeded. 1) How to follow up the assign ments during the week. Occasional ly write a card to your pupils to remind them of their home study or special assignment. When you phone, make a casual remark about the lesson. Always be available, either by phone or otherwise, to help and discuss the lesson with your pupils during the week. One class of sixth grade boys knows that their teacher is going to phone one of them at six o’clock
ior high age pupils should study their lesson before you teach it, and be prepared to take a real part in the presentation, answer questions and discuss problems. Occasionally let your pupils take turns in teach ing. They will have to study them selves, and will also face some of your problems with unprepared pu pils. One junior high teacher stim ulated some real home study this way. He wrote to the members of his class asking them at the end of the quarter to write him a letter of not more than 200 words, telling what they thought of the book; what they got out of it; how the lessons helped them. There were some very interesting letters sent to him which gave him insight into the books and his teaching. This should also work well with a high school class. If the manuals for your youth or adult class do not contain daily Bible readings, give out lists of such Scripture each month or each quarter, or publish them in your
Junior high and up. Many of the suggestions for the younger people might well be used with older groups. The time for preparation may vary according to the ability and training of your class. Most Sunday schools find that by jun
in our family we have grown 'up feeling that our prepara tion for next week’s Sunday school lesson is just as impor tant as doing our homework for day school. The student who never did his homework for junior high would really turn out to be a dummy! Why should we be dummies in our Sunday school classes? We like to play and have time for our own activities as much as the children in any family, but we have learned that certain activities come first, such as our homework, pianò and instrumental prac tice, Sunday school and train ing union preparation and
I like to do my Sunday school workbook
by Dorothy Davis
A 14-year-old junior high girl (daughter of K.B. book reviewer Dr. Donald G. Davis) tells how Sunday school homework can be a family affair.
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