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Session 5: A Teaching Pattern That Works
Introduction
How do we teach adult learners?
Adults need to know why they need to learn something.
Adults want to make decisions about what they are learning and when.
Adults have experiences they want to bring into their learning.
Adults are life-centered; they want to know how something will apply in their lives.
The 4-step teaching pattern HOOK, BOOK, LOOK, TOOK helps to address the needs of adult learners.
Step 1: HOOK
o Gets attention
o Surfaces a need
o KEY 1: Don’t assume someone has biblical knowledge
o KEY 2: Select an activity in which everyone can participate
Step 2: BOOK
o What does the text teach us about God?
o What is the main point of the passage?
o Allow students to discover the text together
Step 3: LOOK
o What does the text mean for today?
Step 4: TOOK
o How should we apply the text in our own lives?
Example: The Parable of the Good Samaritan (some of the ideas listed below were shared on the video; additional ideas are added to provide more content)
HOOK:
o Use the idea of enemies or neighbors to have a conversation
o Watch a video testimony of someone who received help through a local ministry
o Discuss a time when you needed help and how you felt to receive assistance
BOOK:
o The text teaches us that God loves everyone
o The main point: Go and do likewise
o Have students research the road between Jerusalem to Jericho on a Bible app
o Discuss the religious differences between Samaritans and Jews
o Research the role of a priest and Levite and their rules about blood and death
o Use images to help students imagine the story
o Watch the story acted on video
LOOK:
o Discuss who is viewed as a neighbor and an enemy in our current contexts
o Imagine Jesus were to tell the parable today. Who would he use to be the different characters in the story?
TOOK:
o Brainstorm ideas as to what it means for us to go and do likewise
o Ask students to quietly reflect on a time they were not “neighborly” and how they would act differently in the future
o Ask the students for ideas as to how the entire group could go and do likewise to a local group
o Reflect on what attitudes and actions need to change toward those labeled as “enemies” This second example was not shared in the video but is provided to give another example of using this pattern and to understand the different methods that can be used during each step.
Biblical text: Romans 1:18-32
HOOK:
o Because the text talks about general revelation—that which God reveals in nature.
Connect your students to what they have experienced in Creation
o Show images of scenery or have students find a favorite picture on their phone
o Discuss with students: Imagine if you knew nothing of God. What does Creation say about its Creator?
BOOK:
o What the text teaches about God: God is the perfect and just Creator
o Main point: The fact that the world exists and we exist in it, tells us that we owe ourselves to the God who made us. When we choose to accept a substitute for God, the result is degradation and disharmony that ruins lives.
o Review the whole context of this text from Romans 1:18-3:20
o Trace the argument that Paul is making by walking through a few verses at a time:
o vs. 18-20: godliness—rebellion against God; wickedness—rebellion against people— the opposite of God’s two greatest commandments to love God and love others
o vs. 21-23: list of what the world glorifies instead of glorifying God
o vs. 24-25; 26-27; 28-32: three statements outlining the consequence of failing to
glorify God
LOOK:
o Brainstorm responses to this question, “How do people justify immoral or evil behavior today?”
o Discuss how these statements suppress the truth and then what consequences result from these lies
o Identify for each statement a way that lie can be rejected with a scripture
TOOK:
o Review the list from the previous step and ask students to reflect on this question: Are there any lies you are using?
o Ask students to write down how they will address the lie by refuting it with the truth
Conclusion:
Your role as the teacher is not always to be the one talking. Rather, allowing others to participate allows for learning.
Remember that the Holy Spirit is the Teacher
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