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>3042 Edition

>June 14~June 20, 2010

Sunday school teachers share tips on making classes interesting

>Reported by Chen Yi-hsuan

>Written by Lydia Ma

Chiayi Presbytery’s education committee held a training  seminar for Sunday 
school teachers

on June 12, emphasizing mainly on the themes of creativity and  teaching props. 
It invited Wu

Mei-huei, a presbytery staff with lots of experience in these  areas, to share 
a few tips on

>making classes interesting.

According to Wu, many ordinary objects can become props that make  Sunday 
school lessons

a tad more interesting if teachers use a little imagination.  Teaching props 
can go a long way in

helping children focus their attention, enhance their ability to  memorize a 
verse, and

>remember songs and lessons.

To illustrate her point, Wu held up a simple pen and glued a pair  of wings at 
the tip of the pen.

She then proceeded to add a simple decoration and in a few seconds  the pen

metamorphosed into a wooden dragonfly. Next, Wu demonstrated how  to make a 
puppet from

>a single sock.

“When you teach kids from higher grades, they’ve  probably heard the same story 
many times

already. Sometimes, they already know what you’re going to  talk about as soon 
as you take

out a picture book. So, of course, they won’t be interested  in hearing the 
same old story

again,” said Wu. However, adding new icebreakers or opening  acts can still 
draw children’s

>attention to an old story or familiar verse.

For example, Wu has tried placing magnets behind paper cards  displaying all 
the characters

of a familiar Bible verse. After scrambling up the cards, she  would ask her 
students to place all

the cards in the right order to recreate the verse. Methods such  as this one 
have helped

students get to know a verse much better and think about its  meaning, she said.

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