Teaching Today's Teachers to Teach

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Teaching Today's Teachers to Teach is a comprehensive guidebook of practical ideas, advice, and wisdom on the art and practice of teaching. Donald L. Griggs, a leading authority in the field of Christian education and a veteran trainer of teachers, offers here a realistic view of congregational teaching and learning, while also providing an essential resource for those who have accepted the exhilarating, yet unsettling, challenge of the church's first ministry-teaching. An array of training tools and techniques are featured in Teaching Today's Teachers to Teach, including reproducible charts and pages, as well as specific assignments that help teachers integrate and further study each chapter lesson. In addition, provided are easy-to-implement suggestions and activities that help teachers work with multiple intelligences and new teaching models, use media (i.e., video, computers, and so on), identify their unique teaching and leading gifts, design lesson plans, and encourage creativity. Teaching Today's Teachers to each aims to help teachers become faithful, effective teachers, for, as Griggs advises, "without teaching the meaning of worship and how to worship, worship may become mostly a habitual religious ritual. Without teachig the good news of Jesus Christ and how to share that good news, evangelism may become shallow or just a marketing of the church. Without teaching why we serve others in the name of Jesus Christ, our service may become just good works."