Jesus Didn't Use Worksheets: A 2000-Year-Old Model for Good Teaching

By Joyce Armstrong Carroll

Carroll and Habermas examine contemporary teaching techniques and show how these strategies mirror the teaching techniques of one of the most effective teachers of all time--Jesus Christ. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888842008
• ISBN13: 9781888842005
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Absey & Co.
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Phenomenal book from a skilled educator

Six years ago, I spent three weeks at a district writing training led by one of the authors of this book, Joyce Armstrong Carroll. I learned more from her than I have learned from any other educator in my career, and my students have benefited as a result of her training. I picked up this book at that training, and I return to it again and again. I will admit that I am a believer in Christ, but you don't have to be a Christian to benefit from it. If you're willing to attest to the Christ of the Bible being an effective teacher (even if you don't believe that He is God), then you can follow her reasoning. She takes attributes of effective teaching from Christ's example, at times using biblical references, and then builds on those to explain how you can use that attribute in your classroom. The chapters are: 1) Jesus as Leader and Model: Learning from the Master Teacher 2) Jesus as Facilitator: You Never Step in the Same River Twice 3) Jesus as Parabolic Teacher: "And He Told Them a Story..." 4) Jesus as Cognitive Developmentalist: A Call to Think 5) Secular Curricula and Christian Teaching: All Truth is God's Truth (this is a chapter that non-Christians might have an issue with and would probably want to skip) 6) Jesus and Children: "Let the Children Come to Me" I have also used this as a tool when teaching Sunday school to middle school and high school students.