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Teaching with Purpose: Making a Lasting Difference

W. Austin Gardner Season 1 Episode 54

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What if transforming your teaching methods could guide souls towards profound learning experiences? Join us as we uncover the powerful strategies behind becoming a better teacher, drawing inspiration from 1 Timothy 4:15. In this enlightening episode, we emphasize the pivotal role of learning from other educators, understanding various lesson preparation techniques, and mastering classroom control. Discover why teaching is more than managing a classroom; it's about making a lasting impact on your students' lives.

We delve into the essence of clear and simple teaching, highlighting how great educators demystify complex concepts for their students. The episode stresses the importance of hard work, thorough preparation, and continuous self-evaluation. Through real-life anecdotes, we explore the consequences of inadequate preparation on student engagement and offer insights into improving your teaching approach. Embrace these timeless principles, apply them fully, and witness the transformative impact they can have on your teaching journey.

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W. Austin Gardner:

Well, we have been discussing for several days now how to be a better teacher and how to improve, and so we are to meditate upon these things and give ourselves wholly to them, that they that profiting may appear to all. That's 1 Timothy, 4, 15. And so I've got a few more to end up our study on how to be a better teacher. I want you to talk with other teachers and learn what they're doing. How do you prepare your lesson? How do you get your outline? How do you make the application? How do you keep the children? How do you discipline? How do you keep class control? Talk to others and learn all you can. What works for them may not work for you, but it might. You can always improve. Remember there's an urgency in your teaching. People are going to heaven or hell. This is not a game. This is not babysitting. This is not keeping them out of the main service so the preacher can do his job.

W. Austin Gardner:

God gave you the Bible and God gave you people to listen to you, and God gave you the power of the Holy Spirit. God's working in your life to do your job, and I challenge you to take that very seriously. Always work at being clear and simple. Work at being clear and simple. The great take really hard things and make them simple. The foolish take simple things and make them hard. It's not a giraffe, it's a sheep not up there on the top shelf, but on the bottom shelf. Make it available where people can understand it and apply it to their lives.

W. Austin Gardner:

Remember that good teaching starts with hard work. Good teaching starts with hard work. You can't wing it. You know you want to be a good teacher. You want to really make a difference in somebody's life. Start on Sunday. Read the Bible study. Get all the material you can use cross-references. Look up the words you don't know in the dictionary. Make sure you can teach that in a way that would make a difference in somebody's life. You got to be careful. This isn't something we just do to spend the time. Don't run in there at the last minute and fly with the seat of your pants. Share truth, learn truth, apply truth and be your worst critic. Evaluate your work, see how you're doing, tape yourself, listen to yourself, watch the students. Are they learning? Are people dropping out of your class?

W. Austin Gardner:

One time in a church I worked in had a guy that seemed to be a very good student and so I thought he could take over the class and I mistakenly gave him the class. He took it from 25 or 30 to zero in very few student. And so I thought he could take over the class and I mistakenly gave him the class. He took it from 25 or 30 to zero in very few months. Don't do that. Work at being a better teacher. You know what the Bible says. Meditate on these things, give thyself holy to them that thy profiting may appear to all. First Timothy 4, 15,. You can be used of God. You can make a difference. Don't waste what God's called you to do.