The Art and Practice of Teaching

Teaching is a rewarding, challenging, and demanding task. This book is written in the hope that it will effectively equip those who teach teachers and those who teach. The intention of this book is to encourage and assist the Christian teacher by supplying an approach to teaching that will guide them in their teaching practice.

Each chapter details an important ingredient in the teaching/ learning process. The book looks at objectives, the nature of the learner, lesson planning, teaching methods and assessment. It is focused on helping the teacher understand how the teaching/learning process can actually work. All this is set in a context that stresses the intentional, wholistic, change-oriented and God-centered nature of Christian education.

At the end of each chapter two helpful guides are included. The first is for the teacher of teachers. It gives suggestions about how this book could be used in the classroom training of teachers. The second is for the experienced teacher or the trainee teacher. It encourages them to think through and implement the lessons found in the chapter.

Like all Christian endeavours, teaching requires both complete dependence upon God and the full exertion of our human labours. God calls us into partnership with him so that we will all, teachers and students, be united by our faith and by our understanding of the Son of God. Then we will be mature, just as Christ is, and we will be completely like him. (Eph 4:13: CEV)