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Reflect on these questions online; print this page; or highlight, copy, paste, and save the text to work
in a word document.
- Draw a sketch of the space or spaces you currently use for teaching. Include the children, all furniture, and all resources
that take floor space. Is this the only arrangement possible? Sketch a plan that would allow for more open space. Use your
sketches to discuss the opportunities and challenges children have for various forms of movement.
- Invite your class to make a plan to add visual interest in your class space. Tell them the only parameter is that images
need to have a connection to your learning topics. What do they see in what they are learning? Work together week
by week to implement your plan. You're creating community and interest. Share your space with others? Could you create portable
visual images students can "post" each week?
- Do students in your congregation feel like Sunday school classes "belong" to them? Walk mentally through a typical session.
How do they participate? Who directs what they say and do? Think about your answers as they relate to Robert Sylwester's statement,
"It is biologically impossible to learn something if we are not attending to it, and we do not attend to things that are not
emotionally meaningful to us."
- Have rewards been a part of your teaching practice? What were the short and long term benefits or concerns? What evidence
do you have that this is true?
- What is it reasonable for students to expect of you as a volunteer teacher? What is it reasonable for you to expect of
them? How can both ideas be communicated to the students and their families?
Classroom Management
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