Teaching Tips Zone

Should you expect respect from all kids? What about kids who have been through trauma? 

Don't let your props take the place of your message.

What is an object lesson? Here are several basic instructions that you need to know for giving one!

Keep your class actively participating with these simple tips. 

Use this children’s Sunday School lesson teach students about God’s protection.

Some things are beyond our control. You have to start with what you have. You never get to start with what you wish you had.

To effectively reach children, we need to understand children and teach them in a manner that they learn best.

Using Mike and Ike candies as a way to help kids learn to pray and to connect the things around them with reminders to pray.

Here are some key principles for managing difficult behaviors.

Take care of yourself so you can help take care of others.

Kids have questions, naturally. One of the best ways to interact and lead them closer to God is by engaging with their questions.

… paint a power-packed picture for all those visual learners out there. ~ Aaron Reynolds "Your eye is a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light." ~ Jesus (Matthew 6:22)

4 steps to simply sharing the Gospel with the kids in your mnisttry

If you work with kids, you know how challenging it can be to keep their attention.

I think one of the greatest skills you can teach your class is to study the Bible themselves.

Want your kids to pay attention better in class? Teach them to S.L.A.N.T.

Teaching kids about the love of God is a privilege and a joy, but what happens when your group includes a negative child?

Let’s encourage our kids to be comfortable and familiar with their Bibles. 

Doctrine can be taught to children! Here are eight basics that every Christian church can agree on and should teach to all of their members, beginning with the children.

Empower kids to pray for each other by teaching them how to pray. The prayer of a child can make a huge impact.

 Kids must be taught their faith in order to gain confidence in it!

Teach your kids how they can listen for the voice of God when choosing friends.

Teaching kids to talk to God and hear from him is one of the most transformative parts of the small group experience, so be intentional about making it a priority in your time together.

It's the same old BIble story, but it can also be a fresh one, when told through the eyes of someone new. 

Learn to teach, not just tell. 

Children are active and have a lot of energy. But some kids are hyper all the time, it seems. Here's what you can do.

This valuable story could prevent you from great heartache and a ruined ministry career! A MUST-READ!

Every teacher or Children’s Ministry leader needs a few “quick quiet” tricks to help tame an unruly class. Here are a few methods that you should keep readily at hand.

The tongue can be a powerful weapon. 

Do you ever wonder why your message fell flat? Maybe you need to work less on the content and more on the delivery. 

12 short but meaningful tips on how to be a thoughtful teacher of children.

Give yourself a break and use these tips for active participation during large group time. 

Whether in Sunday school or at home, use these 6 steps to help encourage your kids in studying the Bible.

Since Bible games are a teaching tool, you want to do your very best using them in your program. The following tips will help you.

Is it worth the stress to run a VBS each year?

What do you do to plan as a team?

Are your kids meat-eaters and bone-spitters? We need to train them in clarity and charity. 

Here are the many ways that I use technology in children's ministry.

Here are some common “themes” of ministry that are literally worldwide.  

What's the next big "thing" in Kidmin?

Who is Responsible to Disciple my Kids - the church or me?

Every children’s ministry should maximize Bible review games. They are essential to an exciting program.

Read the causes of unruly kids during and after divorce. 

Use these worship station ideas to allow kids to express themselves in ways that they are most comfortable. 

The advantages to aligning preschool and elementary lessons are less than most people believe and the cost is much higher than most people realize. In short, the cost outweighs the benefits.

Have you ever just played a game, gotten the kids all hyped up and then wanted their attention back? Don't raise your voice is this technique.

Eight tips are shared on how to make your storytelling more effective.

This is a short overview of how to lead a child to faith in Christ. It is the outline used by the Kidologist in his workshop by the same name. Includes the classic 'star fish story.'

I find the story of Blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10, Luke 18) ideal for teaching children about how we should pray.