| Teachers and Coaching |
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The coach and teacher are essentially peers, not "master and student." (Posted 3-4-05)
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| Leaders and Coaching |
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Coaching is practice between a coach and one or more leaders who establish an agreement about what they want to accomplish. (Posted 3-4-05)
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| Keep the End in Mind: A New Teacher's Primer on Planning |
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Plan with the end in mind. Before plunging in, consider thinking through what you want to accomplish.
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| The Pastor as Educator |
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Pastors, I encourage you to consider your role as "parson" and to build up the system of discipleship in your congregation by taking seriously the gifts and abilities you bring to the ministry of Christian education and formation.
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| Help! I'm the New Christian Educator! |
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Uniting Knowledge and Vital Piety: Linking Learning Styles with Our Spiritual Types
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You may already have learned about and implemented in your education and formation ministry the seven ways of learning. Did you know that each of us has a preferred style or means of relating to God as well?
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(The First) 45 Guiding Questions to Assess the Education Ministry of the Church
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Use these questions, and others you identify, to assess your understanding and practice of the ministry of Christian education and formation in your church.
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Layering Bible Study: A Workshop or Program
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This layered approach to Bible study may be used as a training or program idea with teachers and other leaders involved in Christian education and formation.
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The Ministry of Christian Education and Formation: A Practical Guide for Your Congregation
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This manual provides practical suggestions to build and guide a ministry team through the many tasks and responsibilities of forming, informing, and transforming others as Christian disciples.
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Keeping in Touch
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God is calling you to step out onto the path that leads to transformational teaching! Our world needs teachers and small-group leaders who are committed to helping people experience God's grace through Jesus Christ and discover what it means to be God's people.
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| Worship Resources for Promotion Sunday and Rally Day |
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| Listening to Teach, Speaking to Learn |
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A critically important work for leaders in local congregations is to learn to listen. There is healing in listening. There is connection and community in listening. And there is learning in listening.
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Orientation for New and Returning Teachers: What Every Teacher Needs to Know About (in pdf format for downloading)
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A 2 1/2-hour workshop designed to help teachers become familiar with the content of the 10 booklets in the What Every Teacher Needs to Know About series.
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Invitation and Discipleship
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Current studies indicate that personal invitation continues to be the way most people become part of a Christian education class or other small group.
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| Me? A Theologian? |
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All Christian believers are called to be theologians because if we love God and wish to serve God, we must think about who God is and what God does. (Posted May 20, 2005.)
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