Used bible principles to describe classroom teaching methods.
Can we truly find effective school teaching secrets in the bible? This is the golden question, Bible Secrets For Effecting School Teaching answered in an interesting, first of its kind compilation of classroom teaching secrets from God’s word as contained in the Bible.
“This book will improve the quality of the teacher service in our various educational institutions” writes Sesan Oguntade, author of Bible Secrets For Effecting School Teaching. He further writes, “This book has been prepared not to compete with the various professional books on teacher education but to present God’s views on how teachers should carry out their tasks”.
Excerpt
One of the chapters captioned, The Role of Information describes an interesting role proper information plays in the development of the society. The author showed how this important tool of development was used effectively by God’s servants in the Bible. He further describes how it played great parts in moulding the lives of two well-known post Bible personalities in two different directions. This chapter also describes how teachers can use this tool effectively on their jobs.
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: Bible Secrets For Effecting School Teaching
“This book will improve the quality of the teacher service in our various educational institutions” writes Sesan Oguntade, author of Bible Secrets For Effecting School Teaching. He further writes, “This book has been prepared not to compete with the various professional books on teacher education but to present God’s views on how teachers should carry out their tasks”.
Chapter One, titled, Making Versus Teaching describes why teachers must stop seeing themselves as teachers of destinies but makers of destinies. “the teacher who is a maker of destinies is a role model to his or her students and even his or her colleagues at work.
Chapter Two, captioned, The Role of Information describes an interesting role proper information plays in the development of the society. The author showed how this important tool of development was used effectively by God’s servants in the Bible. He further describes how it played great parts in moulding the lives of two well-known post Bible personalities in two different directions. This chapter also describes how teachers can use this tool effectively on their jobs.
Chapter Three, tagged, Do You Have The Right Spirit? describes the relevance of the right spirit in teachers and their effectiveness as teachers. According to the author, “the teacher duty is a lot more of rigorous tasks and responsibilities, you can only be on top of the game if you are connected to God with a right spirit”.
Chapter Four, captioned, Your Student is Not a Dummy! describes the type of relationship that must exist between the teacher and the student. He believes the teacher is, first and foremost, a guide to his or her students; he or she is not the “alpha and omega” over his or her students. “Despite the fact that God is the real Alpha and Omega and the creator of Moses, He still allowed Moses’ contributions in the “wilderness classroom” of Exodus 3”, writes Sesan Oguntade.
Chapter Five, opens us up to The Wisdom Box. “By wisdom, a great student is raised…” writes Sesan Oguntade. The interesting contents of The Wisdom Box will help the teacher to prepare adequately for his or her classes.
Chapter Six, titled, Walk Into The Hearts of Your Students explains how teachers can help their students to learn effectively by teaching from the familiar to the unfamiliar. The author believes teachers must form the habit of creatively generating the interest of their students in them and what they teach before they can really teach them effectively. The author shares an interesting biblical examples of this teaching strategy as used by Jesus in Luke 5 when Jesus generated Peter’s interest in the idea of catching fish before disclosing to him the idea of catching men (Luke 5:10).
“Please when you walk into the hearts of your students, do everything to ‘sit’ down in their hearts all through the session”, the author advises teachers.
Chapter Seven opens readers to the relevance of Love as a useful tool in the teaching profession. “Loving your students will be a hard task if somebody has not loved you first”, writes Sesan Oguntade as he tries to prove to teachers a basic factor that can make them show effortless love for their jobs and their students.
Chapter Eight, captioned, Good Counseling Skills describes the need for teachers to see themselves as counselors. This chapter mentions practical ways teachers can develop good counseling skills. The chapter further shows how important figures used this skill effectively in the bible. You need to read this.
Chapter Nine, titled, Be Generous describes how a generous teacher will excel above others on the job. “Your profession is an investment”, the author counsels teachers. “God is the only One you must look forward to for your rewards”, he adds. The chapter further describes what the teacher can begin to give out to the students and the school as he or she performs his or her duties.
The Importance of Evaluation in Chapter Ten, shares the interesting reasons why schools and teachers must not toy with the practice or process of evaluation. The author explores Deuteronomy 8 and other parts of the bible to fish out interesting evaluation skills employed by God and His servants.
Chapter Eleven, tagged, Picture Tutoring, opens up the readers to the usefulness of using “Picture materials” in their activities. Ten of such “Picture materials” are mentioned under this chapter. “In my humble Christian experience so far, I have observed how the Spirit of God has used pictures to pass information across to me”, the author writes as he describes how God has used “pictures materials” effectively in the bible to pass across important information to His servants.
Chapter Twelve, the last chapter, titled, Teachers And A Golden opportunity describes the golden opportunity that God has placed in the hands of anybody who teaches in any capacity to make the world a beautiful place for Him. “When you teach your topic well in whatever capacity you find yourself, you are adding color to the world for God”, Sesan Oguntade writes. “God is always in the business of rewarding those who add color to the world for Him”, he adds.
At last, a version of Simple Steps to Sentence Sense for younger students and those whose native language is not English. Students can learn to analyze sentences in 5 easy steps.
