 Good morning everyone. Thank you for joining class today. Before we begin, can I ask Erin, can you please lead us in prayer today? We are able to hear Erin, because it was very difficult, we are able to hear her clearly. Yes, no? Yeah, we can not. Okay, so maybe I thought there was some problem with my ear. Yeah, Kiran, can you just unmute your mic and speak something please? So I can hear her, I can just make sure that I can hear her clearly or anyone is here. Yes, ma'am. Yeah, from the audience. Can I say something more please, begin? Yeah, ma'am, hello. Yeah, okay, thank you. Yeah. Okay, thank you Erin for praying. Sorry, we couldn't hear you, but thank you for praying. Okay, so yesterday we looked at the qualifications of the teacher in the light of similarities with the increasingly role in the Old Testament. And then we looked at, you know, in a children's church or in Sunday school, messengers and methods are needed to proclaim the message to the children through the empowering of the police and to communicate the gospel to each children, the good news, the message that is in the Bible, the truth that is in the Bible, we require messengers and effective methods and we can only do this to the encounter of the Holy Spirit. So we looked at what a messenger should do to effectively proclaim the message. Today we look at the methods a messenger should incorporate to effectively communicate the message in a relevant and a productive way to change. So we are going to look at the methods. So the methods are basically involved, you know, choosing relevant topics for the entire year or what topic you would want to do in a specific season or couple of months to children that you are teaching. And then we will look at how to prepare a lesson plan. So we look at basically first, the first method is how to choose a topic. We choose topics. Now you choose topics for your whole year, maybe from January to December or if you are following the school academic year, like we followed you in India, you can see a very natural church, we followed the school academic year which is June of a particular year to March of the next year. So, you know, if we are going to start in June of 2022, we will go right up till March of 2023. So that is one whole year for us. April may basically give the children holidays because we don't have children church for many of them, we are traveling, we go in our town, our country and we don't want them to miss out on any topic. So we just give them a holiday during those two months for April and May and we will get back in June. So it's good to plan for a whole year for each specific class or each age group, whether it's beginners or finally two years, eight years and seven years put to plan the topics well ahead of time or also you can plan the topics for each class individually. So how do you choose topics? You choose topics based on the developmental needs of the children in that specific age group. We've already gone through many classes which study about developmental needs of children and we look at the spiritual needs, what they are looking for and what we can give them effectively minister to them or to teach them or to cater to their specific needs and challenges and difficulties for their wants in that specific age group. So let me just give you an example. For example, if we're going to change grade one and two or standard one and two children who are six or seven years, then basically we look at their spiritual needs or what they are looking for. They need to know that God will be perfectly, that they are created special and unique. They are valuable to God and to others. God loves them, God loves everyone, their family, their friends, their neighbors. God knows them. He knows their needs. He knows their wants. God hears their ways. God is dependable, trustworthy and always good. There is a difference between right and wrong and then we also need to hear that sometimes we sing. We choose to do things that are wrong or that are bad. Jesus came to pay for all our sins. Jesus is the Son of God. Because of what Jesus did for us, we can live it forever and we can accept Jesus as our Savior. So these are the few things I have been teaching when I was talking about the developmental needs of children in this specific age group. It's there in your notes as well. So you can just take out these spiritual needs that children in this age group need and they need to hear about these things. And then you can likewise choose a topic. So for example, your first topic can be creation. And you can talk about how God created the world in six days, what we did on the seventh day, the best day. Then you can also talk about how it really had been perfect in order after everything we created, we said it was good. So we can talk about basic creation and also how God created, how they were different from the rest of creation. Other narratives in the Bible that you can talk about creation is Jesus since the start. And you can talk about because he created everything, all creation is obeys him, receives order from him and they do what he says. And we can also talk about the power of his word, what created everything to the power of his word. So when God says, when Jesus says, he still, everything was calm. The wind stopped, the rain stopped, the sea was totally calm. And you can also talk about the story of Joshua, how God made the sun stand still, that he could fight the battle and win the body anyway. So you can choose these narratives and then you can prepare what are the objectives that you want to, learning objectives that you want to bring out through the story. But also they need to hear that they are unique and special. They are valuable to God and to others. So you're unique and special. We can talk about how God created harmony, how they are different from the rest of creation, created this image and likeness. They value to God and others. So you can talk about how Jesus raised Jerry's daughter, how Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, who's maybe in Marta where they were crying, they were sad. Israelites crossed the galaxy, you know, God made a way for them because they were very valuable. They wanted, they were very precious. God did not want them to lose them. He did not want them to be taken back to Egypt as slaves or destroyed by the Egyptians who were following them. So you can choose likewise narratives that talk about how valuable they are to God and to others. Okay. Then the next topic is about that we need to hear is God loves them and loves everyone. So you can talk about the prodigal son, Zacchus, that God loved him in spite of him being a sinner. You know, Jonah, how God did not destroy the people in Nineveh because God cared for them. He loved them and also how God rescued them. Israelites out of Egypt, you know, because he loved them and cared for them. Then the other topic you can have is, you know, God knows you. Okay. So, you know, you can choose narratives on how God cares for their needs, He provides for their needs, He knows their needs and he would provide for them. So just simple narratives for this age group, you know, feeding the 5,000 blind men, guardians, God providing manna and water in the desert for the people of Israelites. Okay. So you can just have these topics and then you can think of narratives in the Bible that would best fit into these topics. Or the next topic that we need to hear is God. Here's our prayer. How God protected the baby Moses, you know, and when they put him in the basket, put him in the River Nile among the roots and I'm sure that they will do his mother, his father and Miriam were also praying for him and how God protected the baby Moses. Then we can talk about Jehoshaphat, you know, when the three kings came to attack Jehoshaphat, how the people went to the temple. Everyone, women, children, they all cried out about and how God heard their prayer and protected them. Jonah's story, you know, how Jonah prayed in the way that the belly of the stomach of the whale and God gave him a second chance and how the people of the baby painted and God heard their prayer and forgave their sins and did not think about the calamity that he wanted to bring on. They were the destruction that we brought on there. Then God is dependable, trustworthy and always good. It's another next topic. You can talk about Abraham and Sarah, how God made a promise and kept the promise and he gave them a son, Daniel in the lion's den, how God protected him. God is dependable, trustworthy, he's always good. Joseph, I mean, so long as a slave, but you know, even though he was told into prison, but he becomes the prime minister of Egypt, okay? And then Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego's narrative. So you can just think of topics and then you can also think of relevant narratives that will fit in. The last two topics is, you know, difference between right and wrong. So you can talk about Akin's sin, Adam and Eve, how they sin against God, Elisha, Elisha's greedy servant, Gehazi, Ananias and Sephira and Hatshaka Fai. So all of these stories with their narratives, the news to tell them what is right and wrong and how God does not like us when we sin. What is disobedience? Even simple things like, you know, Adam and Eve sound very simple. They just make such a big function that for God's sin is sin. And then I need to know about, you know, what is sin, Jesus paid for our sins because of what Jesus did on the cross that we can, you know, we can live with it forever and then talking about how to accept Jesus into that. So you can talk about the whole series of sin and salvation. Everyone has sin. So you can use the analogy of the human thought in the act of adultery. God sees our sin. Akin's greed and disobedience. We talk about the cost of sin. Cain and Abel's sacrifice, you know, the punishment that came upon Cain and killed his brother Abel. And, you know, Jesus is the answer. Adam and Eve for how they disobeyed God, but how God promised that we came about to see truth only one and, you know, Jesus came and we died for our sins and all. So these are some of the things that, you know, these are some of the topics for this age group. And likewise, you can plan and choose the relevant narratives that kind of cater to these children's needs. You could think that woman caught in the act of adultery something that you can't really explain to children about adultery and all those things. Then you can choose about, you know, another narrative that, you know, like everyone has sinned and, you know, you can use that as your narrative or the story for your lesson and then we can learn about the learnings from that. Okay. So this is basically for grade one and two. I have mentioned the developmental needs, the spiritual needs or what children in the age groups need to hear so is there any words. So if you are planning to hear topics for the year, then you can just spoke to the development. You need to see what our spiritual needs and pick up those topics and plan or choose the narratives from the Bible from the old and testament and then you can start writing your lesson plan. Okay. We need to, because they're children, sometimes we think, you know, we can do anything or, you know, just decide anything at the spur of the moment or one day before or Saturday when that does not really work. We know that we learned yesterday or we saw yesterday that children are intelligent beings. They understand, you know, we need to see them as able and fit for good planning, planning well in advance, planning the lessons, planning the topics and not treating them as someone who can just do something with them, you know, just finish the task and go away like we don't do for youth ministry or for adult church. The same way we need to be sincere and diligent for children as well because we're serving them and the precious in our side wants them to also hear and know the truth like we look at in our very first lesson of the biblical basis and mandate for children's ministry. So we need to prepare them. There is no substitute for a well-prepared teacher. You know, classroom control will improve significantly in most classes when we prepare effectively. If you're spending any time preparing, you know, you will see the effects in the lives of the children. So to prepare adequately, you will have to spend time, you know, preparing well and when you prepare well, when you prepare adequately, you will see that, you know, there's a good productivity, there's a good feeling, there is a good harvest that you will, you know, that you will reap. You also see that children will begin to enjoy the classes that they will learn. They will basically receive everything that you're teaching them. They will just soak in what you are telling them because you are well-planned and when you are well-planned, when you've done things, you'll be sincere and faithful like we heard yesterday when we are sincere and faithful God will equip us with the creativity, the skills that we need and he will bless the God and the children will be motivated to learn. They will also be motivated to learn upon what they have learned. So why am I saying all this or why is this a repetition because if you are planning for a class, a teaching class, say 30 minutes, you will have to spend no less than two hours or two and a half hours preparing for that 30 minutes to teach children. Oh my gosh, two and two and a half I think that is quite an exaggeration that's too much, but we will come to know as I bring up the various points that you would require this much of time for so much time to prepare just for a half an hour for 30 minutes of teaching time. So to teach a 30 minutes class you basically need to prepare for two hours if the topic is a little difficult and it needs more detailed explanation then maybe you have to spend more time. Another important point is to remember if you are teaching this Sunday it's good to start preparing for your lesson on Friday itself the Friday of the previous week or you can start preparing for one day of this week you know prepare for week in advance why do we need to prepare week in advance so that you know what the topic is what the narrative is and as you go through this entire week or you go through weekend the previous weekend you would come across different incidents you would see different things you would you look at different objects different stories would come to mind and you would think oh I can use this to teach my children or I can use this object or I can use this game or I can use this activity or I can use what happened recently in the news to tell the children basically for the children in the teachers class 7, 8, 9, 10 you know they would like more relevant issues to be brought up and they learn very well to you know recent relevant issues that have happened with sports people actors politicians anything that has happened with people around the world that is what actually you know is details in their minds and other children have told me when I taught them in schools that you know tell us real life incidents what really gets lesson across to us the objective of what you are teaching so it's good to prepare in advance if you're preparing a day or two like for example you're teaching a Sunday and you start preparing on Friday and Saturday it's not really very effective you can tell the narrative in a very creative way you can bring out the learning but children will get bored playing activities you will not work on good object lessons then it will not be very effective helpful or very efficient so the good time rule is you know 30 minutes class prepare for two and a half hours or two hours and prepare a week in advance or maybe teaching on Sunday you know start preparing on Monday itself the third thing is it's important for you to write down everything that you are saying it's important to have a script just like you have a script when you are preaching in adult church or you have a script when you're doing a seminar or you're preaching or teaching somewhere or you're preaching or teaching with you you have basically a script but for children we basically we can just narrate the story because we know the narrative very well in the Bible just read the story once and okay this is good this is the way of parents we should not cheat and all of those things okay done the lesson is done but you know to be more effective there are a lot of things other than just this that you will need to know because you're kind of hearing don't copy, don't see, you don't cheat don't use bad words obey your parents you know really Bible play I mean they kind of drink higher listening to it so how you know best creative way to teach them to difference life incidents to different activities will be something that we have to think about and also write down specifically so that it will help you okay now why is it important to write down everything that we say if you go to the archival search curriculum you can go to our website and you can find the curriculum there everything is spent out and you can find the objectives write down to the follow up of the lesson entirely what they have to say is mentioned because sometimes when we teach we can start off on you know we can be talking about prodigal son and we can move from Luke's Gospel to you can go to Genesis take it to your right through the old Testament and come right up to revelation okay so for those of us with speakers and you know we can do that but you know in the end children will be very tired they won't have got anything so it's important that you know you have clarity what we are going to say okay how you are going to begin your lesson you know how to recap the previous lesson what are you going to do just the basic points short and crisp and you know meet then what is the learning objectives what is the attention get there what is the learnings that you are going to bring about and the application then the next important reason why you need to write down your own lesson plan is to know exactly what are the important points you need to stay in that specific for that specific topic you need to keep in mind because in one lesson like this you can talk about God's love you can talk about God's forgiveness you can talk about sin you can talk about salvation you can talk about choices you know there are so many things that you can talk about you can talk about all of these things with children they are not going to you know get everything so it's important to just have so that's my five points for children it's good to have just one main truth I'll talk about that and then you know get them get the whole lesson in following that one main truth in various ways bring about the learning of that just one basic or two so when you are writing down you will know what the main points have to say what points are not necessary that we have planned for the year so this topic this lesson is just about love you just speak to dark talk about God's love because you know you are going to talk about forgiveness and salvation in other topics in that video so writing will also remove all the unnecessary things that we need not to put into the child's mind because you just have 13 minutes of the attention and we want to use that to the maximum to bring out the main truth and also when you are writing down you ensure that the main truth of the lesson runs throughout the lesson I'll talk about the main truth in a little while also then you will also need to include relevant activities what are the activities that you can include the object lessons how to cater to the child's children's learning styles and also their different intelligence or their ways of learning remember we learnt the five different ways they learnt to their senses so how can they learn to their five different senses in this lesson if there is something you can see in the lesson whether you are catering to their eight different intelligences or their way of learning so once you also write down all of these things you will know whether you have kind of catered to their learning styles their intelligences and if you find that the lesson is too long the narrative is taking too long the learning is too long the attention-getter the object lesson the activity, teaching the members is going to go more than one and a half hours then you will say now this lesson is too big where can I where is a good point to kind of divide this lesson into two so that I can continue the next class now if you don't do write it down you will not notice that the lesson is too long all the activities that you have planned because you planned everything in the last minute you will not realize then you will see already half an hour time is up I have not finished teaching the members I have not done the learning I have not done the application I have not even given them the activity that I have planned then you can say okay children we will do it next week now what is the learning or how are they going to apply I have no time to do that so it's good when you write it write the lesson time in this whole narrative I have taught them this so what is the learning I can bring about how can I get them to apply what is that shop activity that I can do or should I do the activity now or can I do it next week because I have no time it will just help you to decide all of those things so there is no confusion you will have a good conclusion and the learning will happen and the labor application when you write all of these things there will be no waste of time there will be no confusion because you have clarity there will be a good flow and children will just flow into what you have done and God will just bless what you have prepared and will be very very effective okay so that is about writing and preparing well now we will look at how to write a lesson plan and one of the things to keep in mind while we write a lesson plan okay the first thing when you start to write a lesson plan is to have the learning objectives or to write down or spell out the learning objectives if you look at all the lesson plans in our training such content the first thing we do is spell out or write out all the learning objectives learning objectives we are going to tell you what we mean by learning objectives learning objectives all of you in class more answers okay learning objectives is basically clear specific statements that as a teacher you want the learners you know what learners will be able to do at the end of a lesson as a result of the activities the teaching and the learning that has taken place now learning objectives should be brief should be clear specific statements of what learners or the children will be able to do at the end of a lesson as a result of the activities or the teaching that we are giving them and the learning that has taken place to learn or what the teacher want children to achieve by the end of the lesson so it is very short very brief very very simple now let's say for example exact cases story now if you want to repeat exact cases story then what are some of the main truths that we can bring out from exact cases story that you can answer if you think about exact cases story or exact cases narrative what are some of the main truths that you would like to teach on or bring out from this narrative can unmute your mics and speak or you can type it in the chat section or look if you are familiar with exact cases story what are some of the learning objectives or what is the main truth that we can teach on from exact cases story no answers God came to save all of us ok thank you Dave anyone else faith ok basically we can talk exact cases was a greedy man he was dishonest he lied to people he cheated people so you can talk about how to be honest how not to lie, cheat or not to be greedy what group can do you know God came to exact cases house he did not condemn him but how exact case changed and then you can talk about true repentance what is true repentance how exact case really repentant and how he changed ok and what happens when Jesus comes into our life how he changes us ok so these are all some of the truths that we can teach on this narrative of exact case but if you are teaching about exact case and you want to just teach about to talk about sin then you need to have that as your main truth ok I told you I talk about what the main truth is so you have to choose what is the main truth what you want to bring out or the main truth or is the central point you want to talk about blessing ok and then you keep that as the main truth you keep love you just talk about all this blessing all about God's love and how he loves us in spite of us sinning even though people in exact cases town did not like him they did not associate with him they did not talk to him and he did not condemn him and God loves us so much that he does not condemn us he does not want to be omniscient for our sins he wants to his love is so great for us that his love can change us his love is so great that his love can cause us to totally change and be a new person a different person and do what is right the main truth then you will reward your own blessing or activities or everything that you want to do around this main truth and you also your main blessing objective will focus on the main truth of the central point that you want to bring about in this blessing and you will also think about how you can use this main truth through various activities through various object lessons or attention getters to focus on the main truth or to imitate the main truth and how you can bring about the learning and also get them to apply so that is the main truth and basically having this main truth will help you to write the learning objectives now I will give you a sample of the learning objectives for example just say the first lesson that you are going to teach is that Jesus is the creator so the learning objectives could be something like that like this God created everything we see He created everything beautiful perfect and in order He created everything through His spoken word God's word is powerful and He created everything through His spoken word because He created everything all creation obeys Him so they are talking about Jesus this is done then you can have basically just these three objectives of all objectives Jesus is the creator He created everything through His spoken word He created everything beautiful perfect and in order because He created everything all creation obeys Him He created all these four simple objectives so you will be okay this is the four objectives and this is what I want to kind of elaborate or explain out this lesson and I want my children by the end of this lesson to know that Jesus created everything He created everything through His spoken word He created everything perfect and beautiful in order and all creation obeys Him so you are learning so they are born along this the acting piece so we base on this now learning objective differs based on the wage groups if you notice here this is something this learning objective that I just read out these four learning objectives is basically basically for day one and two but for maybe for the higher wage you will want to go deeper so you will have a different objective so the learning objective should be based on the felt needs of the children your lessons should be based on the felt needs what the children are actually going through what are their challenges what are their needs so once you prepare the lesson you teach them according to their felt needs then the children are able to receive better they tell them okay I am going to follow like exactly what the Bible says Genesis what started with creation so let's do a patient ask that Adam and Eve sin then after that Cain and Abel and then move on to the Tower of Abel so they want to follow the sequential order of the Bible and it's not going to help them but we are going to pick out these lessons based on their felt needs what they are going to start this class by talking about the various topics the spiritual need then the children are able to better understand the spawn and they will love coming back to Sunday School of Children's Church to learn so it's good that you have this learning objective so the learning objective should be based on the topic and also should be based on the main thing that you want to speak about or elaborate to the lesson and the felt needs of the children so the first thing that you write out in your lesson plan is the learning objectives the next is you will begin with the recap of the previous lesson good to do a short recap so if you have planned everything in your mind everything now these are the two main points I'll just do a recap one very short and what am I going to say and then we can connect it to the lesson that you are teaching you can just move on to the next lesson so we have the lesson objectives the recap and then we will begin our main lesson that we are going to teach for today we can begin with an attention getter now the attention getter can do anything now for example if they use objects as attention getters you can use a quiz you can do a skit you can do a game now for example I am going to talk about prayer and you know I am not going to tell them okay today we are going to study about prayer and prayer is communicating with God so that is a good introduction you can think out but you can think about prayer and what you are going to tell them about because you know the beginning of the class what we are going to tell them is going to either get their attention for the rest of the class or it's going for them to lose their attention for the rest of the class so today we are going to talk about prayer and prayer is communicating with God we are going to look at how we are going to communicate with God children are going to say the topic is so boring prayer I know is just talking to God to say okay I am not interested I know it's about prayer it's communicating with God so please don't start a lesson like that you can start in the very creative way now for example on the table I have a phone I have a newspaper with me here so this is a newspaper this is a newspaper I have a newspaper I have a envelope and some letters and then I have a a laptop so I have a map here so I have a map I have a phone I have a envelope and then I have a a newspaper so basically I keep all of this on the table now we know that children learn through their five senses of touch of moving around so if we just get them to come to the table to touch everything some children can just smell the newspaper and things that those children learn to smell and then you can ask them what do you think the items on this table or if they have it in a tray have in common so what do they have in common so what do all of these things have in common phone, newspaper, map and envelope and then they have all in common any answers they all help us in communication they communicate something to us and then they communicate the phone to the envelope they can send a letter the map communicates to us the different places newspaper communicates to us what has happened around the world so we can say that all of these things the spread of the table are used to communicate with each other your parents, your friends, your teachers yes, do you communicate with God as well you know they will be thinking so how do we communicate with God what do we call God when you communicate with God what do we call it which I can respond whatever they can say so let's look further on how we communicate with God so that is one way that we can start the topic and that is the attention-getter another way that you can start the topic is you can just get children two children may not know each other you can get them to choose you can get them to sit together give them couple of minutes and tell them that we have an activity and they have to just sit with each other and get to know each other so the children who choose who they do not know well they just sit and communicate so this is also they learn to talking moving children who learn by moving children who learn to interpersonal communication all of that will happen so then after couple of minutes you can ask them how do you get to know the other person so they say that they ask him or ask her a few questions and they ask me a few questions we said okay good so what did you do do you have to ask all the questions all the time and say no we have to listen to the answer to the questions that the other person is sharing and then you can say good the other person listen to you when you are sharing they say yes so you said was communication complete maybe yes so you are getting them to think answer and all those things and so you say that the same is true when we talk to everybody you keep on talking you also listen as well so we listen when you ask the teacher a question and doubt do you listen when you ask your parents for a question or doubt do you listen to the answers and they will say yes so what about God do you listen to God so then you can ask them what do we call talking and listening to God as we say prayer and then we can get them to and then you can start talking about the topic so you can see things these kind of attention get us to get their attention and once you get that attention and they are excited we will continue next Monday with how to write a recent plan I will give you some more attention with us will end last year anyone has any questions doubts no if not we will end last year thank you all for joining have a good day thank you