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Teacher-Training Course of the Southern Christian Convention 2 6 %f V.2.CI Class Book Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive.org/details/preparingtheteac02harp : PREPARING THE TEACHER TeacWrataing Course of the Southern Christian Convention BOOK TWO EDITED BY W. A. HARPER, W. P. LAWRENCE, W. C. WICKER, Committee on Teacher-Training of the Southern Christian Convention. CONTRIBUTORS THE COMMITTEE, G. O. LANKFORD, J. O. ATKINSON, H. E. ROUNTREE, J. IT. NEWMAN, M. T. MORRILL, A. W. ANDES, W. E. MacCLENNY. THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN PUBLISHING BOARD, Dr. J. O. Atkinson, Elon College, N. C, Publishing Agent. The Pate Printing Co., Burlington, N. C. PREFACE This volume completes the task assigned the Teacher-Train- ing Committee at Greensboro, May 1, 1908. The resolution crea- ting the committee and outlining their work was as follows: "That a committee of three be appointed to prepare a Teacher- Training Course for Sunday-schools, covering two years, a vol- ume of at least forty lessons to the year; that this committee be empowered to ask those competent to do such work to prepare these lessons, the same to be published by our publishing agent." Obedient to this resolution the committee met soon after the convention and outlined the course for the two volumes. The first volume, known as PREPARING THE TEACHER, Book One, was published in November, 1908. This book met with a generous reception at the hands of reviewers and of the church and has been adopted into many of our Sunday-schools. It has also been adopted by the International Sunday-school Associa- tion Educational Committee as Book One of the Standard Ad- vanced Course for Teacher-Training Classes. This means that those who study it and pass a creditable examination will re- ceive the International Diploma as well as our own, if they en- roll with their State Superintendent of Teacher-training. This volume, which is to be known as Preparing the Teacher, Book Two, will be submitted to the International Teacher-Training Committee for their formal ratification. Its table of contents was forwarded to them while the book was in course of preparation and was satisfactory to them. When adopted by them, it will take rank as Book Two of the Advanced Standard Course. These two books, constituting our Teacher-Training Course, ought to mean a reformation in our Sunday-schools as to meth- ods and as to results. They ought to be kept alive in every church and their influence ought to be perpetuated. For Teach- er-Training is not a momentary affair; it must go on forever. There will always be need for it, and so for books such as these. Our next step should be to erect a course for those who are not willing or ready to undertake so extended and thorough a course as our present one. The International Teacher-Training Committee has erected such a course, which they call The First 4 Preface. Standard Course. We need such a course and provision will no doubt be made for it at our Suffolk Convention. Elon College, N. C, THE COMMITTEE. March 15, 1910. A SUGGESTION OR TWO TO TEACHERS AND PUPILS How to Start a Teacher-Training Class. Somebody must take the lead. Ordinarily it will be the pastor; often it will be the superintendent of the Sunday-school; sometimes it will be one of the teachers or a private member of the school; why should it not be you? But whoever the leader may be, he will possess 1 himself of our denominational course for Teacher-Training , cer- tainly of Book One, preferably of both books, and will familiar- ize himself with them. This does not mean that he is to master them, but to get acquainted with them, their contents, their scope, their aim. He will then talk the matter over with two or three others. Then they will in their minds canvass the school for possible members of the class. They will invite these to meet them for a conference. The first half hour of their confer- ence will be given to social enjoyment. There will follow a stir- ing presentation by some one designated or invited for that pur- pose of the value of Teacher-Training. There will come an ex- position in broad outline of the course and of the manner in which it will be conducted. The next Sunday announce to the school that a class has been organized and ask for those who would like to join it to report to its leader. Have the pastor also from the pulpit add a word of commendation. Whence the Members? That depends on what kind of class you want to organize. Is it for the present teachers? Then, of course, it will meet in the week, at a convenient time, and will be composed of the teachers and officers. Is it for prospective teachers? Then any young person of good moral character, over sixteen years of age, may become a member. The class may meet on some evening of the week, but it will be better for it to meet, generally speaking, at the regular Sunday-school hour and to become a regular class. [If you conduct a Substitute Teachers' Class in connection with your Teacher-Training Class, you will have to hold the Teacher-Training Class at some time during the week, or seriously damage its efficiency. ] Do you intend it for both present and prospective teachers? Then the class will be composed of these two elements and will have to meet on Sunday afternoon or some evening of the week. 6 A Suggestion or Two to Teachers and Pupils. Whence the Leader ? The leader or teacher need not have taken a Teacher-Training- Course, but he should be selected with care. In the case of city churches the pastor may be the best leader, though ordinarily this over-burdened servant will be re- lieved of this extra load. The superintendent may be in some places the man of destiny, but it will be better, if at all practica- ble, to secure some one of the present teaching force or some other person in the school to take the place. The leader or teacher will need executive, teaching, and working ability. He will need grace and grit and stick-to-it-ive-ness, given these qualifications, together with consecration, and he will succeed. As to Numbers. "We just haven't got enough who are inter- ested to make a good class." How many does it take to have such a class? Don't think you must have a dozen, or twenty, to have a good class? The leader and two pupils oug'ht to realize this ideal. Where is the school that cannot find this number en- gaged in Sunday-school work who are interested in their own improvement and in the furthering of the work in which they are enlisted? A few earnest pupils and a consecrated leader will constitute a successful class, —often they will do better work than a much larger class will. The Outside Relations of the Class. As soon as the class is organized, it should be reported to the Teacher-Training Super- intendent of the Southern Christian Conveniion and to the Field Secretary of the Young People's Convention.* The class might well also report itself to the International Sunday-school Teach- er-Training Superintendent of the state in which it is located. The reporting to these officers will entitle you to the circulars of information sent out by them and will also put the class in the way of expert guidance and direction in the prosecution of its work. As soon as the class is ready for it, send to the Teacher- Training Superintendent of the Southern Christian Convention for an examination. Have the class stand the same. Send the papers to the Superintendent. He will grade them and furnish certificates or diplomas to those who have won them. Individ- *These officials at present are Prof. S. M. Smith, Norfolk, Va., and Prof. W. A. Harper, Elon College, N. C, respectively. The Minutes of these bodies and the Christian Sun will keep you informed as to changes in the offices. A Suggestion or Two to Teachers and Pupils. 7 uals in any local church in which there is no class may take the course directly from the Teacher-Training Superintendent of the Southern Christian Convention. The Method to be Used in Teaching. Outside talent must be called in very seldom. Let the aim be diligent study and careful recitation. Let the teacher use the question, not the lec- ture, method. The suggested questions at the end of each lesson are intended to aid the pupil in the preparation of the lesson. It is hoped that the leader or teacher will not use them in the class, but that he will make questions of his own, which will be similar to these, but still his own. This will secure for him the confi- dence and respect of his class. Assigned work for home preparation or side-lights may from time to time be given, but these should always be confined to two or three minutes in length, and not over two should be given at one time. Social meetings should be occasionally held. A Personal Word in Parting. Ambitious Suday-school work- er, this is for you. You can do no better thing than take the steps suggested in this prefatory word for the organization of a Teacher-Training Class in your Sunday-school. Will you do it ? That is with you. But we hope you will be led of the Spirit to do it.
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