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Teacher Training

2010 VBS Curriculum

Teacher Training

2010 VBS Curriculum

“Teacher’s Discovery”-Prepare your own heart

“Teacher’s Discovery”-Prepare your own heart

Pray, asking God to prepare your heart to receive His Word.Pray, asking God to prepare the hearts of the kids.Your own learning, experiences?

As a teacher:1.Do you live out God’s Word?2.Have you found by Jesus?3.Have you tried to share God’s love?4.Have you experienced the peace and goodness from God

after you’ve prayed?5.Are you doing your best in using your gifts to serve God,

because of your love to Him?

How to teach a Bible Story?(1)Lesson Aim

Read through the Bible passages in “Bible Story Discovery” a few times.Find the lesson theme--the central point of the passage.Check with the lesson theme “Life Discovery”Lesson Aim is the objective(s) of the lesson--”Daily Challenge”

How to teach a Bible Story?(2)

Hook*Book*Look*Took*

*Richard O. Lawrence: Creative Bible Study

How to teach a Bible Story?(3)

HookA quick and fun activity to help children

connect everyday life with the Bible lesson.

Bible Learning Activities (centers?) (PreK/K)Story Starters (1st grade up)A short story

How to teach a Bible Story?(4)

BookTell the Bible story or/and ask the students to read

from Bible.

Story-tellingHave volunteers answer quick involvement questions.A small activity to illustrate the point

“Conclusion”“Bible Verse Discover”

Bible Story Review activity

How to teach a Bible Story?(5)Look:Apply the lesson to their lives through discussion and

activitiesConnect with Book with a reflection question“Soar”, student Magazines?

Took:Practice the biblical truth in their lives.

A commitmentA prayerAn action that will be carry out when they go home

Course Description

Parables--> Daily ChallengesParables:

“A parable compares something well-known with something hard to understand.”

Daily Challenges:A central point that will change the children’s daily living.

Day 1: Which Soil Are You?Day 1: Which Soil Are You?1. Parable of Soils

2. Which soil are you? (a reflection question)

3. Get It?

Kids will understand the importance of not only hearing God’s Word, the Bible, but also doing what it says every day.

4. Strawberry Dart Frog

Day 2: Baa, Baa, Lost SheepDay 2: Baa, Baa, Lost Sheep1. Parable of Lost Sheep2. Do you want to receive God’s

forgiveness?3. Get Found!

Kids will discover what it means to be loved by Jesus (being saved)

4. Jaguar

Day 3: An Unlikely NeighborDay 3: An Unlikely Neighbor1. Parable of Good Samaritan

2. Do you love an unlikely neighbor?

3. Get God’s Love!

Kids will be inspired to show God’s love to others.

4. Capuchin Monkey

Day 4: The Midnight KnockerDay 4: The Midnight Knocker1. Parable about Prayer2. Do you pray like the midnight

knocker?3. Get Praying!

Kids will understand that anytime is the right time to pray to Jesus.

4. Toucan

Day 5: Use It or Lose ItDay 5: Use It or Lose It

1. Parable of the Talents2. Do you use it?3. Get Going!

Kids will discover what it means to love God by doing their best work.

4. Morpho Butterfly

Age-Level CharacteristicsSetup

Pre K/ K: Tropical Treehouse1st-6th Grades: Parable Falls

Learning MethodsPre K/ K: feeling, sensing more than thinking logically; playing; talking; self-center1st-2nd: doing, and start to read and using logic; more social center3rd and up: thinking, reading, and reasoning

Teaching MethodsPre K/ K: props, blocks, posters, puppets, etc.; repeating1st-2nd: drawing, writing, role playing, games3rd and up: small group discussing, writing, q&a