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EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION

Module 5 – Week 4

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Read one of these passages

  • Galatians 1:16

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  • Luke 21:14

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  • Genesis 4:3-7

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Purpose of Sunday School?

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Outline

  1. Some Facts
  2. Readiness
  3. Appearance and Presence
  4. Audience
  5. Voice and Body Language
  6. Visual Aids
  7. Interaction and Engaging the Class
  8. Four Stages of a Lesson
  9. Answering the Questions
  10. Time Management

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Is THIS for you?

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1. FACTS- The Obvious

  • Kids always talk!
  • Kids are BORED
  • Kids may not want to be here
  • Kids have a short attention span

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1. FACTS- The Not so Obvious

  • You are their first introduction to Christianity
  • This may be the only time in the week they actually connect to God
  • As their Sunday school teacher, you may have a huge impact on their spiritual life

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2. Readiness

  • PRAY

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  • EFFORT
    • What are you required to cover: 1-3 bottom lines?
    • What was presented before you...what will be presented after?
    • Resources – ALWAYS fact check; RESIST THE URGE TO INCLUDE
    • Know the place and time (Don’t be late!!!)
    • Do you need to bring a laptop? Cable? Etc.
    • What’s your backup plan?

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3. Appearance and Presence

2 Cor 5:20: you’re an ambassador

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4. Audience

  • Make sure your lesson is age appropriate
  • Determines everything in the outline
    • How to present
    • Tone
    • Level of detail

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  • The primary account of Noah in the Bible is in the Book of Genesis.
  • Noah was the tenth of the Pre-Flood (Antediluvian) Patriarchs. His father was Lamech and his mother is not named in the biblical accounts.[3] When Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth (Genesis 5:32).
  • After the flood, Noah offered burnt offerings to God, who said: "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done" (8:20–21).
  • "And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth" (9:1). They were also told that all fowls, land animals, and fishes would be afraid of them. Furthermore, as well as green plants, every moving thing would be their food with the exception that the blood was not to be eaten. Man's life blood would be required from the beasts and from man. "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man" (9:6). A rainbow, called "my bow", was given as the sign of a covenant "between me and you and every living creature that [is] with you, for perpetual generations" (9:2–17), called the Noahic covenant or the rainbow covenant.

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NOAH’S ARK

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Noah’s Ark: RENEWAL

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  • God offers ALL living creatures as food to Noah and his family

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  • “I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.” Gen 9:13

THE ARK

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WASH YOUR PLATE ACTIVITY

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5. Voice and Body Language

  • Clear
  • Project
  • Confident
  • Pace yourself
  • Tone

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  • Eye contact
  • Don’t slouch
  • Some like to walk
  • Hand gestures
  • Notes?

Voice

Body Language

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Confidence

  • Be over-prepared
  • Practice...over and over!
  • Be positive and optimistic
  • You can use relaxation techniques
  • It’s not about you...
    • Focus on your goal
    • What is your point?

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6. THE FOUR STAGES OF A LESSON

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7. Visual Aids / Styles

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7. Visual Aids / Styles

  • PowerPoint presentation
  • Handouts
  • Board
  • Play / Costumes
  • Puppets
  • Circle / Discussion Style
  • Song
  • Game
  • You!!!

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PowerPoint Presentation

1 Slide per Minute

Avoid Distractions

Legible Font / Size

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8. Interaction and Engaging the Class

  • VERY YOUNG: Circle time
  • OLDER: Group discussions / presentations
  • YOUNG: Activity Sheets
  • Conversational tone, Eye Contact
  • Class participation
    • Ask questions
    • Point system / prizes
    • get them to do SOMETHING….. ANYTHING

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9. Answering the Questions

  • TRACT Technique
    1. Thank the questioner
    2. Repeat the question
    3. Answer the question
    4. Check with the questioner if they are satisfied
    5. Thank them again

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  • What happens if you don’t know the answer???

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10. Time Management

  • Pace yourself
  • Expect things to be slower
  • Keep an eye on the clock as you give your lesson
  • Running out of time...what to do?
  • Always remember to come back to your take home message
  • BETTER TO BE SLOW AND HAVE ONE MESSAGE

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11. ALWAYS FINISH WITH A PRAYER

  • They can pray for ”who didn’t come this week to come next week”

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  • You can pray that God gives them whatever He wants to give them from your effort (including nothing if that’s what He wants)

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So… what do these have to do with ANY OF THIS?!!!

  • Galatians 1:16

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  • Luke 21:14

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  • Genesis 4:3-7

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So… what do these have to do with ANY OF THIS?!!!

  • Galatians 1:16 -> PRAYER FIRST

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  • Luke 21:14 -> HOLY SPIRIT DOES THE TALKING

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  • Genesis 4:3-7 -> GOD STILL WANTS OUR PREP

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Questions?