For this week’s practicum, I spent a total of 7 hours (1 for Sunday school, 2 hours in Sunday school preparation, 30 minutes in Sunday morning worship practice, 1.5 hours in worship service, and 1 hour teaching the pre-teen class on Wednesday night (1-hour prep).
Our class is talking about the book of Ephesians. I took over at chapter 2. I decided to get the big idea of chapters 2 and 3 before we looked at them in detail. I saw a theme that could be missed if we didn’t take the time to look at the big picture. As a result, my lesson plan was as follows:
Intro—Praises and Prayer Requests
· Pray for each one at a time
Start: --Debrief what we talked about the last class by re-reading the text
· First talk about how chapters 2 and 3 work together to show the three step process of coming back to Christ
· Read 2:1-10
o What is the text saying? What is the first step?
· Read 2:11-13
o What is the text saying? What is the second step?
Dig: -- Read chapter 3
· Start by reading 3:1-5
· I’LL READ VERSE 6
· Read 3:7-9
· I’LL READ VERSE 10-13
· After this, what is the three-step process that we see
1. First we need to be saved by grace (accepting Christ’s gift)
2. God is now for all nations (a plan throughout time but now revealed in Christ)
3. Jew and Gentile Both sharing in the body of Christ (the church)
· But what is the church supposed to do? It’s all fine and dandy that we now know Christ wants everyone to share in the body of Christ, but what are we to do about it? (Read 3:10-21)
1. We see that the church is to display his wisdom
2. We see that the church is supposed to be unified
3. We see that the church is to grow spiritually and cause others to grow spiritually
Questions: --
· Tell me how you guys fell about the church. Are we doing this?
· What are we doing wrong?
· What are we doing right?
· How can we do this better?
Pray: --
· Dear Lord, help us to understand that you are a gracious God who’s ultimate plan is to bring us closer to you. Thank you for revealing yourself to us and your plan to us. Help us to accomplish it. Let us embrace your gift to be saved by grace. Let us embrace the fact that you are a God for all people. Let us understand that it is our duty to be unified in mind and body, that we may bring as many people back to you as possible. But most importantly God, we understand that this will only be accomplished by your love. Pour out your love on us God, so that we may be able to do your will.
· “Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within u, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen!
There were only 6 people at my Sunday school class on Sunday (we usually have 9-12), but I feel class went well. I think the class as a whole benefited from the more intimate setting. Individually, responses varied. Dylan slept throughout the entire class because he worked all night the night before. Michelle, in contrast, was engaged the entire class. She was eager to read and answer the questions I had. The same goes with her husband Steve. The only exception with Steve is that he was a little more critical of the way I was teaching. I think he (the pastor) pictured my lesson covering a few verses instead of a few chapters, so he butted in with details he wanted the class to know that I didn’t cover in my big picture overview. Kelly and Tony Sugar were both participatory, but not to the extent that Steve and Michelle were. Overall, however, I felt that there was decent participation in the group.
I really feel that my lesson plan was carefully put together and I executed the lesson plan in class very well. I took me exactly an hour to get through the class and I covered every point that I intended to. Therefore, I have to say that I had great direction and leadership of the class and moved them toward the points I was trying to make. I had good questions for them, gave each person plenty of opportunities to participate, etc. My evaluator felt the same way.
The main thing I need to improve is my public speaking skills. I spoke too soft and quiet and I fumbled over my words every now and again. The only thing that my evaluator told me to do was make sure I cover main details of each chapter if I have the chance even if the desired goal is to show that main ideas of each chapter.
QUESTIONS:
1) What do you guys think about my evaluator’s critique? Should I have covered the details even though I my purpose was to look at the big picture?
2) Do you see anything in my lesson that needs to be improved?
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