Week #4

Week #4 – 2/10/08

Teaching Lesson #1

A. For this lesson, I taught on the Great Commission to the students. This was nice because we normally have a large group of kids, but this week we split them up into three groups and taught a different lesson in each group. The lesson began with about seven pictures, spread on the floor, of modes of communication, such as a cell phone, books, pens, TV and a computer. Then I had the kids look at the pictures and tell what the similarities were between all of the pictures. And what I was looking for was that they all were modes of communication. One student named Morgan was quick to say that they all were ways to give information. When Then discussed how information is passed from one person to another and that lead into how information is passed to others about Christ.

I then asked the question how they heard about Christ. They were quick to answer with the typical, “my parents told me,” “church,” and “pastors.” We then read the great commission and discussed what Jesus commanded us to do with sharing about him to others and discipling them. And we also talked about Jesus’ promise in the Great Commission to be with and what that meant to them.

To finish it up, we talked about ways we can communicate the promise of Jesus to others outside of our words.

B. For this lesson, I taught it twice on this morning, to two groups of students, from first grade to fifth grade. These kids seemed like they were regulars who came. They seem to be made up of mostly professor and staff students from IWU.

The students seemed to understand the point of my message. As I asked questions, they always had an answer. A young girl named Hannah said that we should communicate Jesus with others by the way we live, in our actions. The students gave some specific examples of how they could share Jesus with others, some of those were; be nice to people, be nice to their parents and give to people.

Evaluation for Joel Stone

February 12, 2008

Ministry:

SPLASH morning worship

Age of Children:

K-5

Number of Children Present:

40

Task Given:

Teach a lesson

Interact with the kids

Help with classroom management

Teaching material used:

We write our own that follows the teaching of Pastor Steve

Expectations:

1. Prepare a Bible lesson and tell the story of the Great Commission
2. Manage a very active classroom.

Evaluation:

Joel was well prepared for his lesson. I had a child that I had to deal with so I was not able to be completely attentive to his presentation. I was impressed with what I observed. Joel was well prepared and the kids were listening very attentively to the lesson. Joel’s tasks were to use pictures demonstrating different ways that people communicate with each other and to also compare and contrast ways that we can communicate the Great Commission to others. He was responsible for explaining the concept and then preparing questions that would encourage deeper thinking of the passage. Joel encouraged the kids to share with others about the hope of Jesus Christ!

He is at ease and very natural with the kids. He is doing a great job!

D. I think that I was able to get the kids to understand the main idea that was to be communicated in the lesson. I believe that I was able to bring the meaning from the first idea of communication to how they communicate Jesus to others.

E. Things I need to improve on. I think that I could be better at keeping the attention of the students. Although there are young, I feel that I could have been more ingaging with the words and tones that I used to keep those who were being loud, quiet and those who were paying attention more engaged. The students seemed like the didn’t really take me serious. So I think that one thing that I need to do is to build better relationships with them in order to build credibility.

F. Questions:

What would you do in a situation when the students don’t seem to be paying attention?

How should I approach the students when trying to build a relationship? They are young kids, mostly 1^st through 5^th grade.