--An illustrative outline on
prayer.
Preparing a lesson is no easy matter, particularly for those teachers
who are new to the calling. There are those, of course, for whom reading
an assigned chapter through constitutes a preparation, but to the
successful teacher this preliminary reading is only the initial step in
the process. Adequate preparation involves the following questions:
What aim shall I select out of the material available as the focus for
my day's work?
How shall I build about that aim a body of facts that will establish it
as a fundamental truth in life?
How shall I illustrate the truths presented so that they will strike
home in the experiences of my boys and girls?
How shall I make sure that members of the class will go out from the
recitation to put into practice the teachings of the day?
What questions ought I to ask to emphasize the outstanding points of my
lesson?
What method of presentation can I most safely follow to make my lesson
effective?
How may I discipline my class so that no disturbances will interfere
with our discussions?
Reduced to simple terms, the matter of preparation together with
presentation, involves the problems of
Organization
Aim
Illustration
Application
Methods of presentation
Questioning
It is difficult to single out any one factor and treat it as if it were
independent of the others--teaching is a complex art with all of these
factors inseparably contributing to the results desired--but, for
purposes of clearness, may we not proceed to give attention to each in
its turn that in the end the teaching process may the more definitely
stand out in all its aspects?
For convenience, then, let us in this chapter consider the problem of
organization.
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