1. Intelligently trace the effect of God’s dealings with Bible persons. 2. Discuss why Bible characters were successes or failures in God’s sight. 3. See the relevancy of the mem ory verse to Bible individuals long ago and to themselves today. 4. Feel the thrill of discovering Bible truths themselves and want to share them in class. 5. Save precious time in class. Have you tried these ways to get your pupils using and liking work books? 1. Invite pupils to your home and explain how to use the workbook as a stu d y gu ide. (Serve refresh ments !) 2. Let pupils know you expect them to come to class with their work done. 3. Set the example—always com plete workbook assignments yourself. 4. In the best way for you, check your pupils’ work each week. 5. Commend pupils for work they do. 6. Refer regularly to pupils’ as signments in class. Otherwise, they will see no reason for doing them. 7. Call some pupils each Thursday night. Ask a question based on the week’s assignments. Post results of this “tele-quiz.” Reward winners. 8. Give an occasional written quiz, based on assignments in the work book. 9. Increase incentive by using the Flexi-record system. (See Scripture Press catalog, or your Christian Bookstore.) 10. Send a letter to parents, or visit them. Enlist their help and encour agement. 11. At a PTA, display the work book and let pupils explain its pur pose. 12. Collect and grade workbooks at the end of each quarter. 13. Above all, be th o rou gh ly “ sold,” heartily enthusiastic your self. Only then can you arouse genu ine interest. And interest leaps over all barriers! Once you arouse the want-to in a pupil, you can’t stop him. Until you do, you can hardly start him. May all who a/re “workers togeth er with Him ” examine, use, and pro mote the Sunday School workbook! *Rev. Larson is Western Director of Scripture Press. This feature is heard weekly over KBBI, Los Angeles (107.5 FM). Other panel members are Rev. Ray Syrstad and Rev. Paul Dirks.
of 2,000 years ago and 8,000 miles distant. 5. Their use encourages self-disci pline and improves work habits. To the pupil— 1. Because workbooks direct pu pils to the Bible for answers, the Holy Spirit can correct, reprove, and instruct them more personally than in class. 2. Eight use of workbooks makes pupils more “ at home” in the Bible, better able to find books and verses. 3. Workbooks encourage the hab it of personal Bible study which arouses a growing love for the Lord and respect for His Word. 4. Workbooks, especially through the memory verse study, helps pupils see the relationship between Bible truths and their personal needs. 5. Workbooks appeal to the pupils’ d e s ir e to accomplish something worthwhile—challenge them to work. 6. Workbooks provide the means of friendly competition—for stimu lating pupils to do required assign ments. To the teacher— 1. By using the workbook as the basis for class discussion, the teach er avoids merely lecturing. 2. Workbooks help the teacher ask questions in the pupil’s vocabu lary. 3. Workbooks enable the teacher to check on each pupil’s grasp of Bible truths, to correct misunder standings that otherwise might not be brought to his attention. 4. Observing the attitudes of in dividuals toward workbooks helps the teacher to evaluate spiritual progress and to meet pupils’ differ ing needs. To parents— 1. In churched homes, workbooks can furnish the basis for family de votions. 2. In unchurched homes, they can witness to parents—call attention to truths being taught tfatir children. Which has more value—doing as signments before or after class? In this push-button age, most peo ple. says Newspaper Columnist Syd Harris, prefer to be handed answers on a silver tray and stuffed with in formation they haven’t bothered to chew and digest for themselves. But this discourages zest and indepen dent research. It tends to keep all pupils at the level of the slowest learner. Unless pupils have read the Scrip tures on which a lesson is based, they have no background from which to draw. To interpret, they must inter pret something. Advance preparation allows pupils to—
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