Featured Do you go through workbooks in Sunday School or just lecture?

Lecture; with class input as appropriate.

 

Neither. Open discussion. It's the best way to learn.

 

We use workbooks. But different teachers use the workbooks differently. If I'm teaching the workbook is there as a guide and I'm going to facilitate the open discussion to get us to the modern application of what we've read/studied BEFORE we get to class.

Pulling the people into the discussion and letting them teach each other will never go wrong. :flower:

 

We do groups on campus and off campus on Sundays and outside that time. They're all groups regardless of the name.

All of our teachers are asked to lead in directed discussion where a topic, or passage, is presented and then discussed by the group. Open ended questions are the best way to go. This helps facilitate a deeper conversation. It leads to richer groups.

 

Neither. In our Sunday School (for adults) we have a scripture selection and basic commentary. We read the scriptures and discuss them using the commentary as a guide. Often we find ourselves disagreeing with the commentary.

 

We'll say neither too. For the adult class that I have been in the longest, there is usually a book, or lesson guide that the teacher goes through. He Presents a few preliminary thoughts, or has someone read the main scripture passage for the day, then begins asking guided questions as he works through the passage or lesson little by little. (ie, talk a little, ask another question, discuss, move ahead a bit, repeat. That class has great discussions, and even has good civil disagreements about certain issues.

There is one of the substitute teachers who tends to lecture too much when he teaches, but he's getting better.

We are a fairly traditionally structured church, with Sunday School and Morning Worship Service...then various community groups meeting throughout the week. The SS hour probably leans more instructional, and the groups lean more discussion-heavy...but there are elements of both in both settings.

Our Senior Adults have been doing more of a work-book type thing forever, so they keep doing that. The children's classes also go through workbooks, I believe, but they leave them at church during the week.

The Youth Classes (which I just recently began teaching one of them) are similar in format to the Adult class I described above, except we very often begin the discussion with a "How would you respond in this situation?" Question.

 

And I should have added, our Sunday school teachers are expected to do the study and prepare the discussion outline themselves, not relying on prepackaged materials.

 

Agree, as long as it kept under control.

 

It's flannelgraph or nothing. You modern folk are just ruining Sunday school. :tongue3:

 

Flannelgraph?

 

Humph. We use clay tablets and scrolls, so there!

 

Pardonne moi, Padré, but I am not in preschool. :laugh:

FYI, I'm too old for there to have been rampant Flannelgraph advocates or users back in the day, but my kids were "flannelgraphed" near to insanity in Sunday preschool.

 

We normally go through an entire book, as we just completed going through the Gospel of John in 44 weeks, and the pastor had us get a binder, and put in it his stugy guides for each class, and we were encouraged to take notes on them...

He also will open it up to discussion, so feels more like a regular classroom setting like in Bible college...

We tend to use actual text books/study guides more in our cell groups...

 

Rolf must be one of them young ones that missed the finer things of the old ways.