To: Stephen Howlett
From: Kevin Aaron
Subject: Practicum Report #7
Time: 3 hours (1.5 SS, 1.5 Service)
Preparation: Caleb and I sat and discussed briefly the direction of our Bible study. We have to decide if we wanted to continue on the course we were on with the series we had begun studying. We quickly agreed it would not be advantageous to change directions and decided to forge on ahead. From there it was up to Caleb to prepare the lesson, so my involvement was minimal. The passage to be studied was Luke 16:19-31, the parable of the rich man and his banquet.
Study: As I said, the passage used was Luke 16:19-31, the parable of the rich man and his banquet. To start, Caleb had Charlie read the passage out loud for us to hear. The passage discussed the rich man that was going to have a banquet and how all his friends told his servants he could not attend for various reasons. After being angered by this, the rich man sent his servant to get the poor and lame off the streets to enjoy the banquet. Caleb asked us for our thoughts and after realizing that most of us were not very awake, decided to use a new tactic. He had me use the chalkboard to write down ideas. This forced us to see our thoughts and focus on them. It helped keep us awake and talking. What transpired were us diagramming rich man, his friends and the needy that were brought in off the street. Caleb then asked us what kind of things get in our life today to give us excuses to ignore God’s calling us to his banquet. A variety of answers came out from Adam and Chelsea such as school, video games and significant others. It became clear to our group pretty quickly that there are a lot of things in life that keep us from listening to what God is trying to tell us. As a result, we started to realize how we needed to stop ignoring God’s calling us. Also, we thought about the idea of helping those in need by inviting the needy to eat with us or doing service projects to help them. Because it is to those in need that accept the calling from God that inherit the kingdom.
Questions:
1 How can the class take lessons like this and put them into practice in our everyday lives?
2 What are some other ways to keep the class on task and focused such as using the chalkboard?
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R.E. 1: Using the lesson in everyday life: There are a lot of different ways to teach the students how to put the teachings of the class into their own everyday situations. The best way to do this is by taking a class and teaching the students how to translate the teaching into everyday, real life situations. Teaching this could be one of the most challenging parts, but when the students are taught to put these teachings into practice it is easy to keep them accountable. One of the best ways to teach the students how to put these teaching into practice is by relating the topic to a modern day occurrence that everyone can relate to. After the students know how to apply the teachings and to put them into practice, the way to keep them doing this is relatively easy if the students are open with everybody. The ways to keep them doing these practices are to set up accountability partners, and just keeping each other accountable in their walks of life. The second way is to have people share every week to see if anyone has used these teachings in their life.
R.E.2: Other methods of keeping the class on task: The chalk board was a very good idea to keep this group on task, and focused. Some other ways to keep the students on task is to tell a real life story to relate to the teaching that you are doing that week. This will keep the students on task because it will show them that this could happen to them so they need o know how to handle these different situations. This tactic would also help them with the first question of how to put the lesson into real life practice. It will also show that the teacher is able to be vulnerable and open with the class, so therefore the rest of the class will be confident that they can be open also. Another way that you could keep the class attentive is to give some type of visual aid to the class. Some visual aids that can be used are things like drawings, whether they are on the chalk board on something else, or it could be some type of power point if the technology is available, or lastly you could show a video of some sort that goes along with the lesson. All of these ideas would work to some extent, but for the class room setting that you have the chalk board is probably the best way to connect to the class.
Caleb Hall
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