Teaching to Change Lives: Seven Proven Ways to Make Your Teaching Come Alive

As an effective teacher, you must not only know that which you would teach—that is, your content—but you must also know those whom you wish to teach.

The two factors that will influence you the most in the years ahead are the books you read and the people you’re around.

planted seeds—and you’re still reaping the harvest from them. Don’t ever get so hung up on a specific lesson that you forget this fact: Good teaching—and

The miracle of the ministry is that God handpicked us to be his representatives to this generation.

God moves into our lives by divine design, to periodically disturb our equilibrium. That’s how he develops us.

The true function of the teacher is to create the most favorable conditions for self-learning.… True teaching is not that which gives knowledge, but that which stimulates pupils to gain it.One might say that he teaches best who teaches least. JOHN MILTON GREGORY

The learner’s beginning point, the basic level where everyone starts, is unconscious incompetence—that is, you’re ignorant and you don’t know it. The next level is conscious incompetence—now you know you don’t know. How do you find out? Usually somebody tells you, but occasionally you discover it for yourself. The third level is conscious competence—you have learned something, as when you first got the hang of driving a car, and you’re consciously aware of it as you do it. The final level is unconscious competence—you’re so competent you don’t even think about it anymore: You get in your car, turn the ignition key, release the brake, operate the gear shift, and go through a whole series of coordinated activities without ever thinking about them. In fact, most of your time driving is spent thinking about something other than driving.

art of teaching—and the difficulty of learning—is getting people to place themselves at the beginning of that cycle, to plunge to the bottom, so they can start the learning process.

She had a way of changing a group’s dynamics. Her philosophy was, Let’s not bore each other with each other; let’s get into a discussion, and if we can’t find anything to discuss, let’s get into an argument.