Teaching for Results

By Findley B. Edge

Book Overview

In this revised edition Findley B. Edge explains that many Sunday school teachers fail to achieve better results because 'their teaching aims are too general and often vague.' The solution, he says, is for the teacher to focus on a single objective for each lesson and 'work toward that aim with singleness of purpose.'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805420150
• ISBN13: 9780805420159
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Don't just read it - teach it!

A great book that only needs to be read, it needs to be taught in our churches. I've been using the principles in Teaching For Results for years and it has been fundamental in transforming lives, and classrooms. It's sad to say that many Sunday school teachers are simply "going through the motions" each week. This book not only teaches methods, it motivates! If you are a serious pastor or teacher this is one book that is a must.

A Must Read For Sunday School Workers

If you are only going to read one book to help you improve your teaching, this should be the one. In this book, Edge encourages teachers to not only know what their goal is in teaching the lesson, but to aim for that goal. His premise is that teachers should not be satisfied with putting some information out there and hoping that the students learn something from it. The teacher should have an action in mind and aim to get the students to do that action. If the students are not learning and putting what they learn into action then the teacher is not teaching. This book is well worth reading.

"Teaching for Results" is a must read for all educators!

Why aren't my students responding to my teaching? What can I do to help my students retain more information? Should I be mearuring my teaching efficiency by the way students learn? How come I always get all of the boring students?Findley Edge's book, "Teaching for Results," will answer those questions and others. More importantly, it explains cognitive and learning development in a way that is easilty understood. Don't be fooled, however, into thinking it is simplistic. It certainly is not as Findley did his homework into learning and teaching methods. This is a book that every institution that trains teachers should require every student to read.If there is only one flaw in the book it is in trying to track Findley's use of terms when he transitions from one idea to another. This is most important to a person trying to make a teaching outline from some of the chapters in the book. If that is not important to you then I would give the book a fifth star.Churches should consider requiring all Sunday School teachers to read this book and to even write a short report about each chapter and how their teaching methods will be impacted by what they have read. Public speakers will be very interested in reading about how a listener automatically responds to the way certain questions or visual images are phrased. Parents would benefit tremendously in understanding the way children learn most effectively."Teaching for Results" isn't the only book on the market on the subject of teaching and learning but it certainly has to rank high on the list of those that can be used immediately and repeatedly. Get it today!