Teaching with All Your Heart

by David E. Fessenden

Finally, the ultimate resource for everyone who is teaching or who is thinking about teaching Sunday school! Teaching with All Your Heart offers expert insight from the beginning to end on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0781449138
• ISBN13: 9780781449137
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: David C Cook
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Yes! Teach with All Your Heart, as Jesus Did!

***************************************************************Teaching with All Your Heart provides an excellent overview of teaching in a Sunday school environment, using your own style, with both structure and spontaneity. David Fessenden's book does a great job of discussing how to make use of standard Sunday school curriculum, without slavishly following every detail, nor getting so frustrated you discard it entirely. His first focus is to teach as Jesus did, with authority, based on careful Bible study, prayer, and love for your students. He emphasizes giving yourself to thorough study of the Biblical content of the lesson, to allow the Lord to make the lesson your own. His second focus is learning to recognize the overall lesson structure provided by the curriculum writer, and then logically customizing the lesson in an easily remembered format.The book provides very practical help for teachers with varied skill and experience. The format is kept lively with vignettes from the teaching experiences of three companions in a local church. As we get to know Joe, Mary and Chuck, we see how they are able to solve their teaching problems with the author's suggestions.Teaching with All Your Heart provides insight by discussing the curriculum anatomy of a typical Sunday school lesson. Fessenden provides an understanding of the various methods used in Sunday guides to reach students with different learning styles. He presents the helpful "three point outline" approach to dividing a lesson and its topics. He then gives tips on how to appropriately "pick and choose" content to suit your students. There is even an interesting chapter on developing Sunday school curriculum from scratch.This book was a pleasure to read, and has a lot of wisdom for Sunday school teachers. It is currently helping me reshape my own approach to teaching from Sunday school guidebooks. You will be blessed by reading Teaching with All Your Heart!***************************************************************