“Tools that Teach” provided hands-on learning for teachers and pastors of the Central Visayas District, Philippines. Rev. Jun Montecastro, chairperson, and the SDMI board invited Luz (Lilian) Tambongco, a MA-Religious Education student at Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary or APNTS to conduct a teacher enrichment workshop at Visayan Nazarene Bible College, Cebu City last February 7-8, 2009. Lilian entitled the workshop “Tools that Teach” with sessions covering motivation, “1001 Ways of Teaching”, basic lesson planning, using recyclable materials to create teaching tools using what is available for visuals and object lessons.
Thirty-one participants, grouped together by their churches, worked to develop lesson plans, create visual aids from materials ready-at-hand, and make group presentations of their work during the sessions. Comments from the participants indicated the value of the workshop through becoming aware of the need to target the heart of the learners, the ease of using common things, and the need for other Sunday school teachers to benefit from such a workshop. Rev. Jun Montecastro expressed a desire to conduct a follow-up workshop with Mrs. Tambongco this summer.
Mrs. Tambongco developed this workshop as a project for Instructional Design, a course taught at APNTS in the Curriculum & Instruction concentration of the MA-Religious Education degree. Luz was also a member of the team of Curriculum & Instruction students who designed and wrote a preschool Bible curriculum, “Growing in God Through Love and Obedience” that is soon to be published.
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