The document provides guidelines for teaching teenagers effectively. It discusses that teaching involves facilitating learning and provoking change in students. There are two key factors needed for learning - interest and participation using multiple senses. It offers rules for sustaining interest, such as securing attention first, avoiding exhaustion, using variety, and making the presentation attractive. Specific techniques are described to make learning visual and engage senses, like using decorations, vivid stories, flip charts, objects, demonstrations, and mental imagery. The conclusion emphasizes the need for spirit-filled edutainment that packages lessons connectively using music, arts, games and drama.
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1. The Equipping Christian Ministry
Guidelines and Interactive Techniques
for Teaching Teenagers
teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we
may present everyone perfect in Christ.
Colossians 1:28 (NIV)
Jerry Akinsola
jerryakinsola@yahoo.com
+2348033804982
2019 LEBC Family Life Ministry
Children/Teens Workers Conference
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Teaching is Not
telling or talking
making a presentation to
a group of learners.
occupying people with
uncoordinated activities
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Teaching is the..
process of engaging
students in activities that
will enable them to
acquire desire
knowledge, skills, values
and attitudes.
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The teaching process
involves
stimulating, informing,
challenging, encouraging
and guiding a learners to
reach predetermined
goal(s).
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There are two factors
that must be present if
children and teenagers
would learn.
(Exo. 3:1-4, Acts 2: 1-3)
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To Facilitate Learning You
Need
Interest
Triggered Interest
Sustained Interest
Use of Multiple Senses
HearingSeeingFeeling
Tasting Doing
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What Can You Do to
Secure and Sustain
the Interest of
Children and
Teenagers ?
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Rules for Making
Learning Interesting*
*John Milton Gregory, The Seven Laws of Teaching, 1886
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Never begins a class exercise
until the attention of the class
has been secured.
Pause whenever the
attention is interrupted or
lost, and wait until it is
completely regained.
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Never wholly exhaust
the attention of your
students. Stop as soon as
signs of fatigue appear.
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Adapt the length of the
class exercise to the ages
of the participants: the
younger the pupils, the
briefer the lesson.
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Arouse attention when
necessary by variety in
your presentation, but be
careful to avoid
distractions; keep the
real lesson in view.
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The favorite stories, songs,
and subjects of the
participants are often keys
to their interest and
attention. Find out what
these are, and make use of
them.
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Look for sources of
distraction, such as
unusual noises, inside
the classroom and out,
and reduce them to a
minimum.
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Prepare beforehand
thought-provoking
questions. Be sure that
these are not beyond the
ages and attainments of
your learners.
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Make your presentation as
attractive as possible, using
illustrations and all legitimate
devices.
Study the best use of the eye
and the hand. Your pupils
will respond to your earnest
gaze and your lifted hand.
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What can you do
to make Children
and Teenagers use
their senses in the
class?
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Making Learning Visual*:
Mel Silberman, 101 Ways of Making Training Active
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Decorations.
Place colorful items in the
classroom that are visually
stimulating, such as art,
crafts, flowers/plants,
furniture, banners and
balloons.
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Vivid stories.
Tell stories that illustrate
the points you are making.
The more visual details
you include in the story,
the more participants will
be engaged.
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Flip charts.
Important issues,
questions, or solutions can
be recorded on newsprint.
Adding color and visual
graphics enhances the
display.
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Objects.
You can utilize props, job-
related equipment, sculpture,
machinery, or materials that
directly or indirectly
describe key elements of
your subject matter.
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Dramatic activity.
By asking participants to
watch and/or participate
in dramatizations of real
work/life events, they can
see how key actions
unfold.
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Demonstration.
Show participants how
something is accomplished
rather than telling them
verbally. Involve them, if
possible, in the
demonstration.
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Mental imagery.
Invite participants to
visualize situations, both
probable and improbable,
by having them create
mental images evoked by
words.
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In Conclusion
To facilitate learning in
children you need to Spirit
filled EDUTAINMENT
(package your lesson in
ways that connect using
Music, Arts Games, Drama)