User talk:Dredpath

TEACHING THE SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDREN

ON the first day with the kids, introduce your self to them and ask them to introduce them self as well. After the introduction, Ask the kids what they want from their Sunday school teacher, from their answers, tell them what you think is good about their expectations and what need to be done about their unwelcome answers, why do saying unwelcome expectation or answers? This is just a suggestion suppose some of the kid say, i will like to go and see my mum every ten or five minutes i sit quietly at the Sunday school and i do as am told? then this is an unwelcome expectation, which cannot be met, as all the other kids in my opinion would also like to go and see their mum's as well.

And Sunday school is about teaching children good morals to become good and responsible adult in future for them self, their community and for the world as whole. Since it is not expected that every child will live in the area where they were born through their adult life till they become grown ups or (granny’s) and die. Children are very lovely people and can also be very impatient, so by the time all introduction's are complete, depending on the number of children under your care, some of them may be tired and will need a cheer up, find a common sound they can all sing, sing with them, reward them with a clap and move on by introducing boundaries.

Teach them to call for help at any time, so that if some one need to visit the toilet or need to drink water whiles you are going on with your duties as a Sunday school teacher, the children can ask for that help other wise you might for get that we are all different people and we all have different needs. After an introduction of every new things or subject, ask the children if they have any question, which is a way of given them choice’s so that you as teacher do no impose things on the children but rather given them chance to choose for you to guide them on their choices. Again by so doing, you given every one of the children at your care a chance to say some thing both the very active and the quiet type’s during this time, some of the children who were not able to stop you while you were talking or teaching them for water or to go to the toilet will have the chance to ask you for what they want. It also helps you as a teacher to know their potentials and if any one of them needs special needs, you will be able to identify it and help them accordingly.

Try not to choose a selection of the class always to give an answer to a question and if any one of them is likely to be found as always given the answer in other not to quench that fire in him or her, find a very nice way of allowing other kinds too, to be interactive rather than, sit! You have just given us an answer let some one else give us this answer. Because they are children and you are leading or helping them or helping them to make choose if you are not very careful about this particular area, you might shut child up for the rest of their lives. This is actually aim at the children only and in the next episode, will address you needs as a Sunday school teacher too as we understand that you do also need help some times.