 Welcome to class, everyone. Thank you for joining class. Hope you'll had a good weekend. Yes. Okay, let's begin. Let's begin with the word of prayer. Okay, let's pray. Father God, we thank you for this day. We thank you, God, for the rest of the weekend. We thank you, God, for your goodness and your faithfulness in our lives. We thank you that you have enabled us to come in this way, God, to gather in this way, to be equipped, to be strengthened, so that we can be effective ministers wherever you are calling us, or wherever you have placed us, God. We pray that we would be diligent, sincere, that we would serve you and with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength. We would love you and worship you also, God, with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength. We pray that you would be enthroned, you would be exalted in our lives, in our ministry, Father. God, we thank you that you have given us these very precious lives, these children, these young ones in our hands, to nurture, to build up in the faith, pass on the faith to the generations to come, God, and we pray that even as we learn to do so, that you would strengthen us, that you would guide us, that you would enable us, and you would teach us, God. We thank you for this class, we commit this class and all of the students in your hands in Jesus' name, we pray, Amen. Okay, last class we were looking at the learning styles, okay, and we said that we learned through our five senses, and our five senses are the primary way information goes to our brain, so when we are teaching, preaching, or having any seminars, it's good to use all of the five senses so that we can get the best out of what we are trying to communicate. When learning happens with one or more senses, you know, there is better learning that happens, and when you use multiple senses, you reduce boredom in the class, when there's, you know, there's children are not bored, they're also less behavioral problems, okay, so what are the five different sense organs through which learning can happen, or what are the five, you know, senses through which learning can take place is learning by hearing, that is auditory learners, learning by seeing, which is visual learners, learning by touch, so we spoke about how we can give people different objects or children different objects that we are, that the narrative has, or also get them to hold the pictures or help you, you know, doing object lessons or just help you to put these flannel pictures on the board, so learning by touching, and we also saw that people learn by smell and by taste, okay, so we looked at these five senses and explained how we could, you know, have teaching activities or how we can prepare our lessons or our lesson plan using these five senses. Now there are eight different intelligences or ways of learning, we looked at that as well, we began looking at that and we saw Howard Gardner, we're looking at Howard Gardner's eight different intelligences or ways of learning, okay, and Howard Gardner is a professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, he has identified eight different intelligences or ways of learning, and this shows us how God has created each one of us to respond in different ways, to respond individually to the different kinds of content such as language, music, nature, or even through other people, and all of us, you know, even children and all of us at adults possesses all of these eight different gifts or ways of learning, and these are the linguistic ways of learning, that is the word we learn through just hearing or through words, the logic gift is through logical reasoning, mathematical reasoning, the spatial gift that is the picture gift we learn by seeing, so some people learn better when they see whether it's videos or pictures or whatever, then a body gift that is a kinesthetic gift, a musical gift, so children learn or people learn through when music is being played in the background, personal gift through interpersonal relationship, self-awareness gift is through intrapersonal relationship, and then we have the last gift, the eighth one that is a classifying gift, which is the naturalist gift, so each one of us will have, you know, one or more which will be dominant gifts, which we are able to gather information, learn better, so all of us or a child possesses all of these eight gifts, but will operate comfortably with one or two gifts, which means that one or two gifts will be dominant than the rest, okay, so we see that each student's learning style will consist of different combination of these gifts, just a minute please, just give me a minute, okay, sorry for the interruption, okay, so we see that each student's learning style will consist of a combination of these gifts, children learn best when, you know, the classroom activities, the lesson plan, the way the lesson is taught, you know, caters to one or more of their dominant intelligences or their gifts or their style of learning, so we, you know, we should be very aware of these gifts and also not just aware or have information, but also include these activities that apply to each of these learning styles as we teach, preach, or do seminars, okay, and we need to make sure that when we are planning that we are not planning or calling to our own dominant styles or the gifts that appeal to us, that can be very disadvantages to the people that we are sharing, because we will try to, you know, choose activities, we will choose lessons or we will plan our lesson or we'll narrate the narrative based on, you know, what best suits our own learning style, but we need to be careful not to fall into the trap, but we need to do what is best suits everyone, so at the most include all of these eight, you know, learning styles or include all of the five natural senses of people's ways of learning in your teaching or in your preaching or when you're having seminars, okay, and we need to remember that each child is created an image of God according to God's perfect plan, and hence we need to, you know, teach them in the best environment that suits them and the way that it best appeals to them and they are able to receive it well, okay, so before we stopped class last week, we looked at the first two styles, that is the linguistic style or the word gift, and then we looked at the logical or the mathematical gift that which is the, we said is the logic gift, okay, so in the linguist or the word gift, people or children learn through seeing or hearing words, which reminds me that I'll have to present the power point, okay, okay, so the linguistic or the word gift is basically children learning by seeing and hearing words, so I said we could show them, you know, power points with, you know, pictures of which narrates the story, we could also use videos that we can show them, we could also have, you know, flashcards which, you know, show them this, explain the story to them which they're able to see and also hear and also provide them with, you know, with the paper and, you know, pictures, books in the Bible that they can just see, also have to object lessons for them and I also explained last week how we need to have voice modulation, how when we narrating the story, just not tell the story but when the person is crying, make a crying tone, facial expression with crying, a facial expression or, you know, when the person is very happy or very excited, you know, showing that on your face, showing that through your body language, so body movements are very important, eye contact is very important, that is why it's important that we don't read the story from the Bible because when we read it, you know, we'll be reading it in just one tone but it's good to narrate, when you're narrating it, you know, two various hand movements, like for example, you know, David, you know, put his hand in this, in his bag, he's removed the five smooth stones, you can also have smooth stones on your table or can give it to children who learn by touch, you know, and he took it in the sling and then he, you might not have a sling but then you can say he just, you know, kind of rotated that sling and he was, you know, ready to throw the stone and he just threw it and, you know, the stone came right and fell on Goliath's forehead and he just, this huge giant just fell banged down on the ground. Okay, so you're actually narrating the story and you can be enacting it like a movie scene with, you might not have all the props, like you might not have the bag, you might not have the sling, then you can say, you know, David quickly ran and he, you know, took the Goliath sword, it was so heavy, so you're kind of actually lifting it and you just, you know, bent down and cut the head off Goliath. So when you're doing this, children with the linguistic or the word gift, they are hearing the narration but there's actually, they're seeing a movie, okay. You're doing it with all the explanation, with all the actions, with the voice modulation, with your facial expression and it's important to keep eye contact, okay, so that when a child is distracted talking to somebody is, you can see them dreaming or bored, you know, when you look at them, they know all the teachers looking at me, so they immediately get back and they are beginning to concentrate, okay. The next one is, is logical or mathematical gift, the logic, the logic gift and this logic gift, you know, these kind of learners, they basically classify or categorize things for understanding, for their basic understanding, so these children, they try to understand things through patterns, numbers, equations, so for them, you know, they're looking for more abstract patterns, so, you know, when you tell them about the 12 men went to spy on Canon, you know, 10 of them gave a bad report, so they, you know, they love all of these mathematical things, they understand patterns, you can describe to them, you know, how the journey, how they went, what they did and it's also good for you to give them, you know, activities that would, you know, provide like games and puzzles and also fun mathematical activities that will get them to, you know, like be like an attention-getter for the class, if you look up the website, you will find various mathematical, you know, puzzles or quiz that can be good attention-getters for your class and I also showed you, you know, the whole thing about how, you know, we had the alphabets with the numbers and the numbers were given in the dashes below and they had to write the corresponding alphabets which I had showed you in my previous class, it is basically cryptogram, I hope you all remember the cryptogram that I had showed you, okay, so you can even give them cryptograms or, you know, you want to introduce the topic and so you can just have the cryptogram written on the board or you can have it on your PowerPoint presentation and they can quickly just, you know, correspond the letters, the alphabets to the numbers and, you know, you have the attention of these people who learn through the logic gift, you can also give them a lot of games and puzzles so your activities can be games and puzzles and also get their attention in the lesson through, you know, giving them various numbers and details because they like it, okay, so that is the logical gift, the logical mathematical gift and that we saw this last week, okay, now we'll continue with the spatial gift or picture gift, the next one is the spatial gift or spatial gift and the picture gift, okay, now children learn by looking at pictures, colors, images, so we need to provide them, you know, pictures when they are listening to the narrative, also you can have PowerPoint presentation with pictures, you can have flannel boards, they also can learn through videos but when you are choosing videos you need to be very, very careful because, you know, when I am looking for videos on different Bible narratives, there are some from sites that we don't want to get into because they are not the right sites, websites that we need to be looking at and also we need to make sure that the narrative given in the video is, you know, correct in the one that is mentioned in the Bibles, the Bible narrative and the one that is shown in the video should, you know, be matching, should be right, there can be a little difference but I've noticed that a couple of them have varied differences and, you know, so good not to use them but what you can do, what I have done is, you know, we can just, I have actually made PowerPoints of these narratives using these videos so I just play the video then pause it and hit print screen and then copy paste that in the PowerPoint and I have, you know, all the slides ready so you could even do that which is very, very interesting for the children so instead of watching a video that is not exact according to the Bible narrative you already have a PowerPoint that you could show them using these images in this, in these videos okay or the video is good of course you can play it but play it from the right source and good source and make sure that it is according to the Bible narrative and these children also learn by coloring so you can give them coloring sheets which they can color and that it will just reinforce the whole, you know, narrative to them sometimes even if when you're narrating and they are coloring, you know, they can do two things at the time, they're coloring but at the same time they are also learning as well okay so those are the special learners, those who learn through picture gift then we have the next kind of learners who are the kinesthetic kind of learners that is through the body gift okay so these children learn by moving and touching okay so you see some children they're not sit tight in their places which you have assigned to them they will kind of fidget or they will just be you know moving around or they will like to touch something so basically we learn you know children learn by touch so basically give them some objects that that you know pertains to the narrative or get them involved in enacting the skit after you narrate it or they can be a character and you know they are there right up in the front and then you can tell them okay this is what Goliath this is what David did he went and chose five stones so you can get them to just bend down so you know while narrating the story you're narrating it but also you are having these kinesthetic learners you know doing some kind of activities so they are involved or they're engaged in the whole process of learning by touching or by moving and so you can get them to do things like for example you know when we narrate the Lazarus story you know we can have one of them you know you know you can just put the whole white cloth or a white sheet a bed spread or a shawl white shawl over them and you know stand outside the door and when you say Lazarus when Jesus said Lazarus get up you know you can just the person just steps into the classroom and so we have all the kids quite excited about it because they're fully wrapped around in this white shawl or white patar or you know this white sheet and then you can you know Jesus said remove his grave clothes and so you can get other kinesthetic learners to come and remove off the their grave clothes or you can just have you know a blind man so you can just have the blind man you know just doing this and acting the child can act like the blind man you can have other kinesthetic learners who are the crowd who tell them to keep quiet so just get all of these children involved and so you know there is more activity and you just teaching or you just telling them they're going to get bored you can get them involved get them to enact them you know sit down listen to a small learning that you're teaching then get them back involved into the whole narrative okay they also learn through physical activities like games and so you can have games and for attention get us in the lesson okay so their minds retain things better when they are doing something on their own now this is not only in classroom even children at home they behave like this I have had a colleague you know she says when she's teaching her son her son will be you know his head will be on the bed like this and his leg will be on the wall so he's you know upside down and he'll be listening to his mother teaching so she'll be reading out the questions and the answers and his head will be down and his leg will be on the wall and straight on the wall and he'll be listening but when she says you know when I ask him for the answers after I taught him he'll tell me all the answers but he just cannot sit in his place right so you know they might just be moving around I have had parents tell me even in children's church that sometimes they're so disappointed and so sad because they see other children sitting and listening to their teacher but their you know their child is constantly running around picking up things doing things but they were quite amazed when they came back home one day you know they're talking about something and the child you know said this is what the children's church auntie said and this is what Jesus did and this is what we can do and they were shocked because they thought their child is basically the one goes to children's church is basically playing around not listening but they realized that the child is actually very active moving around but at the same time has been listening okay so there are people who do a lot of things moving around I had one of my classmates in bible college he would come for group studies with no book nothing to write he would just sit down he will you know kind of move around in his chair sometimes he will move from one chair to another he'll listen and we think he's totally disinterested he's just come there but he will just go and write the exam and he passes in all his exams so that is how his learning style is okay so bodily kind of static it's a body kind of body gift where people learn through moving and through touch okay and then we have a musical learners the music gift okay they learn through melody rhythm music okay I have one of one girl who comes and who's living in a hostel here and her parents stay away from home so she comes during holidays and you know now when there's a lockdown because the lockdown the college is not happening it's happening online so she's at home but she learns by listening to music you know so her phone is she's plugged in music this worship or songs running the background and she's studying and for me it's totally opposite you know yesterday she was in the room with me and I was preparing for my three classes today and she was looking at some videos and then she wanted to just do some studies so she said can I play music so I didn't want to say no to her so I said okay because but I knew that it's going to disturb me but she's playing music and she's perfectly studying but for me I am not able to concentrate but because for me it has to be perfectly quiet so that I can read and understand and then I told her can you please put your mobile that side so that the voice volume is a little more or less so you see that you you you just can't understand how they they can concentrate okay they can learn when the music in the background but they perfectly do that I had one of my younger sister's friend an excellent student you know does very well comes in between the first five ranks in school but she will be constantly listening to music while she's studying even during exam time so these are the music learners they learn better when there is noise there's music there's rhythm happening in the background so I would like to ask how we can engage students like this but because there's some problem with my audio you can't I can't hear you speak so I can't ask this question but basically if you can just type it in the chat it'll help or if somebody just wants to speak uh maybe it's working back again if anyone wants to say something how we can help these people or children with music gift when we're teaching them no response hello class we can do ma'am some practical things okay Kiran sorry I we tried but can't hear you maybe if you want to type it in the chat you could do so sorry for that problem I don't know the first two hours it worked perfectly fine I could hear the students but I don't know the sour the not able to hear your okay uh practical activities okay like what are some of the practical activities that we can have okay keyboard just get the you know uh keyboard or what you can do is also a record you know uh yeah you can have the keyboard you can have other instruments thank you Kiran anyone else maybe what you can do is you know when uh uh yeah singing you can have worship for them yes get them to sing because they will really like it uh you know we have uh uh we can get different sounds for the narrative that we are saying for example you know there was a sound of the wind and the waves you know when when Jesus stills the storm narrating that you can have that or when you're talking about blind men batime story you can talk about you can have a crowd noise of a crowd you can just play that or you know also Jonah in the thrown into the sea there was a storm you can have sound of storm you know Jonah being drowned in the sea or in the belly of the fish when he cries out to God so all of these sounds you can have in the background you can play it for them but if it's difficult basically you can have you can cater to their needs by teaching them you know a scripture and song there are some songs that talk about different narratives like for example we have the story of Zacchus in a song we have also the blind man story part of it you know the blind man sat by the road and he cried the blind man sat by the road and he cried the blind man sat by the road and he cried he cried oh oh oh show me the way hey so basically you know just breaking out into songs so they are going to be excited there's also a Jonah story which is in song the fruit of the spirit which is also in song so children can learn the fruit of the spirit just by learning the song there are various short choruses which are scripture in song so you can teach them memory verse you know the songs through this you know by using the scripture in song so you can basically get help from youtube you can look up these things you can if you're not a good singer or you've not learned it you can just play it and these musical learners children who learn through hearing children who learn through music children who learn through seeing can see the video and they can just pick up and they can also learn very well okay so just have some music also play in the background which will also help best way to teach memory verse is memory verse in song you can look up if there are any songs based on that scripture passage or the memory verse or you can put a small familiar song to the memory verse tune to the memory verse sorry and you can teach them the song okay then we have the interpersonal learners those who have the personal gift they basically learn with the cooperating with others interpersonal okay they learn by cooperation with others so they learn to you know they love to work in teams they love to work in groups sharing information comparing ideas with each other and you see some children they're constantly will be chatting with others I don't know if you've noticed this or you have people who are constantly chatting with each other or you know when you're preaching or teaching there are people who constantly will be responding to what you're saying like say hallelujah praise the Lord yes pastor come on preach it that's so true you know so these people just can't sit quietly they are interpersonal learners they they they learn best by communicating by sharing you know just speaking out you know and also they like to share information they like to compare ideas with each other so we'll see basically you know the child will be chatting happily with their neighbor and you might be a little irritated or upset that the child is constantly talking but this child is basically you know learning through interpersonal personal gift of talking or discussing with the others so they're basically discussing what you have just said in the previous point say you know yeah this is what happened in my school you know this is what this child did or this is what I did exactly what she's saying or what she's talking but you know it can be very disturbing so the best way to engage these kind of learners rather than them being a disturbance to the child and they missing out and the other child missing out on the points and you not being able to you know not liking this kind of an environment you can get them to you know give their viewpoints you can say okay I think Tanya has something to say Tanya why don't you share it with all of us what do you think about this point you know the child might be a little shy but you know you can just encourage a child to speak we would like to hear your viewpoint and all of that so constantly keep engaged engaging these children also have group activities group games get them involved in you know in activities like skits or debates or quiz group discussion even when they're doing craft activity they would like to do it with somebody else they would like to talk and chat or talk about the colors what would be best what is good and all of those things so get them into you know in a style where they are best comforted find it comfortable in learning also keep engaging in talking to them discussing with them asking their viewpoints so that they're constantly engaged in telling you or sharing with the rest of the class what they think and what they feel now the opposite of interpersonal kind of learners those with personal gifts are the opposite of that is intrapersonal or the self-awareness gifts these children learn best when they are left alone you know they love to learn by themselves they have like their own private space so you will see these kind of children you know they will just go right to the back of the class they will sit there they will sit away from the rest of the other learners and but they will listen and when you have a kind of group games or group activities or when you want to do a skit they might not want to come up in the front they might not want to you know speed engage in the skit or in the activity or do anything you know you're doing in the front with the group it's okay let them be because they were just like sitting back just observing just enjoying what others are doing give them their own space and they will learn best but if you force them then let me know you have to come and do the skit you have to sing along with the rest of them in the front you have to do this then it'll totally kind of disappoint them they might not even want to come back to class because it is not appeasing their kind of you know a style of learning okay and then we have the naturalists who learn through nature the natural environment which is the last eighth gift so these are the naturalists the classifying gift these learners learn by classifying so in any of the other ways their minds retain information whether they're sitting in the classroom they're listening to lectures they're watching you know movies educational movies they're going on field trips they're studying alone in their rooms or even when they're performing in the in the group study they learn through these different ways and they learn best through experimentation experimenting things and through practical methods okay so experiment and practical methods I gave you two examples last week about demonstration where I demonstrated the you know when we give we receive more it does not that we lose out so you know I use the scissors and cut off the the ends and we saw that I had more corners than when I began with four we also I also showed you about how they can love and value themselves irrespective of what they have done whether they're good or bad and I crushed the paper and basically resembled a money currency note and I said that it's still valuable irrespective of whether it's crushed or it's trampled on the floor we can still take it to the shop and we can buy something with that currency note so these children learn through experiments practical methods so you can even do object lessons with them the next class when we are talking about how to write a lesson plan we will look at how you know what an object lesson is and how to basically use different objects to communicate different truths so when I do lesson plans which I begin which I'll begin tomorrow you know you can involve these children in doing these object lessons basically small experiments you know using water using objects using glasses which they can learn and you know they learn best through outdoor activities so you can get also the children out to just play a game or sun bring them back and also use a lot of experiments and practical methods to teach them okay so these are the eight different you know gifts that each one of us have and one or two will be more dominant so we look at the linguistic the word gift logical or mathematical which is the logic gift the spatial which is the picture gift we saw the bodily or the kinesthetic which is the body gift the musical the music gift interpersonal personal gift and intra personal which is the self-awareness gift they learn best left themselves and the natural naturalistic learners which learn through classifying the various the classifying gift which they learn through various means by demonstration experiments and when they are best left in the nature to discover things or through outdoor activities okay so these is briefly the different styles of learning so you could use this when you are teaching children can also please go ahead and use it when you're preaching and teaching I get a lot of object lessons from one preacher you know who preaches in a church in the US I think and he most of his sermons he demonstrates he uses different objects very creative way he brings out the truth so you know so even when you're preaching you can use object lessons to preach or through your seminars you can use images you can use power points and get people's attention okay I'll stop here any of you have any questions please feel free and type it in the chat section we have four more minutes so you feel free to type it in the chat section or you have any comments anything you didn't understand or I can explain please go ahead and use this time now to ask it you can type it in the chat section any doubts any questions any comments was this learning styles helpful to you all where you are able to identify your own learning styles maybe you can type out your answer in the chat section I got only one response what about the others okay if you have no questions no doubts okay Erin says is there any special learning about a special child yeah we have special children and they have a separate school for them they are even in the normal the schooling the normal school they don't have go to a school where we have other children but they have special school for them they are taught in a different way yes and there are people who are specifically trained to teach special children with physical and mental disabilities yes we have to go through a special training to teach them so we have special schools with special teachers who cater to their learning styles yes even children in normal schools who go to normal schools and you know but they are slow learners or they can have problems like dyslexia and other learning disabilities then you know nowadays thankfully schools in India have begun to have separate classes for them where they are taught differently and they need a special way of training them teaching them I know my cousin also you know she teaches children who go to normal schools but they have a dyslexic or slow learners and she has a different style of teaching them because she's been trained in them yes in our children's church we had a special child who used to come of course she her age was so way up but she would always be in grade one you know and we would just welcome her and you know she would just be there by very quiet child of course she passed away wonderful child very beautiful child yeah she would be there in grade one and I would always welcome her and you know and the teachers is to be you know pay more attention to her give her attention and also be sensitive and cater to her needs yes okay thank you Erin for that question but these children will be helped if you can give them special you know coaching special training separately okay thank you everyone for joining class today I'll see you tomorrow and we'll begin the next topic about how to prepare a lesson plan and with that you know we will we'll end this whole children's ministry and then from March onwards March and April Pastor Ocean will take you through youth ministry okay thank you for joining have a blessed day and a blessed week ahead God bless all of you and