Visioneering/ Dirt on Learning
Yo, yo, and hello everyone! I hope and pray all of you are having a great day today.
I have read chapter 6 in the book Visioneering. This chapter is Taking Inventory. In the last chapter Nehemiah was granted promission to go to Jerusalem to rebuild the walls. He is given letters of permission from the king noteing that he has permission to pass freely and to obtain lumber and other needed working material.
In this new chapter we see that Nehemiah actually didn't tell a soul about his vision when he got there. Instead he surveys the area and sizes every thing up. He needed to know what he and his troup were up against. This brings up the sixth building block: Walk Before You Talk; Investigate Before You Initiate. Before we can go out on behalf of our vision, we need to "count the cost" (see Luke 14:28). We need to get the cold hard facts before we launch out. If we don't do that, we're looking for trouble.
As Stanley says, "Investigation will accomplish at least one of three things. It will confirm the divine origin of your vision, give it futher definition and focus, or tip you off that you were mistaken about the vision altogether".
In talking about Confirming our Vision, Stanley looks at Joshua who (along with Moses) sent out men to spy out the land of Canaan. Those men were very intimidated by what they saw there that they abandoned the vision to conquer the land. But eventually (in the book of Joshua) they do conquer the land there (see Josh. 2:24ff).
In the Vision Defined part he looks deeper into Nehemiah. I guess he orginally wanted to rebuild the walls to their original hight, but when he got there and saw it, he decided to scale it down a little bit. If he had decided to rebuild it all the way to where it was, it would have been a daunting task.
And lastly Vision Aborted. No Bible examples here.
Then I read the fifth chapter in The Dirt on Learning, which is about Emotion: The Glue of Learning and Retention. This chapter opens up with a man who taught his Children's Sunday School Bible Class on Jesus calming the storm from Matthew 8:25ff. He used duct tape to outline a boat in the classroom and put some blue out lining around it to indicate water. During the class, he lifted each one into the boat and sat down in a chair and taught the class. One of the boys "fell out" of the boat and he saved him. This story really hit home for those kids. Emotion is a big sign for learning. Jesus knew this well. In this story in Matthew, it must have really hit home for them too. And there are lots of other stories Jesus told to evoke emotion too (ie. deamon possesed man and suicidal pips in Matthew 8:28-34; the sadness of the rich young ruler in Matt. 19:16-22; and so forth).
Of course not all emotions are good. It's never good to envoke fear into your learners by threatening them. Also, discipline will have negative effects on the child(ren).
(And as far as discipline is concerned, the real problem there is the child is bord with the curriculum be used. That means we need to have interactive learning. )
Emotions, when used constructivly, are great learning tools. Make the Bible stories you study come alive. The Hands-On- Bible- Curriculam produced by Group are great at that! We need to" make learning emotive" as the authors say in Dirt.
And lastly, they suggest we need to use "empathy factors". They use a great teaching activity here. Deviding the class into two groups. One group gets a candle. The other group lines up into two rows. The candle group has to go through the second group while the second group tries to blow out the carrier's light. (I hope that made sense!) This will provoke lots of responses. Trying to keep your Christian light burning while your friends burn your's out. But in the game, some one was always there to light it again. Very cool stuff.
I guess that is all for today. God bless you all in Jesus' name! Until next time-
Zack
ps. The Mavs won tonight! Wow! What a game that was! Go Mavs!
I have read chapter 6 in the book Visioneering. This chapter is Taking Inventory. In the last chapter Nehemiah was granted promission to go to Jerusalem to rebuild the walls. He is given letters of permission from the king noteing that he has permission to pass freely and to obtain lumber and other needed working material.
In this new chapter we see that Nehemiah actually didn't tell a soul about his vision when he got there. Instead he surveys the area and sizes every thing up. He needed to know what he and his troup were up against. This brings up the sixth building block: Walk Before You Talk; Investigate Before You Initiate. Before we can go out on behalf of our vision, we need to "count the cost" (see Luke 14:28). We need to get the cold hard facts before we launch out. If we don't do that, we're looking for trouble.
As Stanley says, "Investigation will accomplish at least one of three things. It will confirm the divine origin of your vision, give it futher definition and focus, or tip you off that you were mistaken about the vision altogether".
In talking about Confirming our Vision, Stanley looks at Joshua who (along with Moses) sent out men to spy out the land of Canaan. Those men were very intimidated by what they saw there that they abandoned the vision to conquer the land. But eventually (in the book of Joshua) they do conquer the land there (see Josh. 2:24ff).
In the Vision Defined part he looks deeper into Nehemiah. I guess he orginally wanted to rebuild the walls to their original hight, but when he got there and saw it, he decided to scale it down a little bit. If he had decided to rebuild it all the way to where it was, it would have been a daunting task.
And lastly Vision Aborted. No Bible examples here.
Then I read the fifth chapter in The Dirt on Learning, which is about Emotion: The Glue of Learning and Retention. This chapter opens up with a man who taught his Children's Sunday School Bible Class on Jesus calming the storm from Matthew 8:25ff. He used duct tape to outline a boat in the classroom and put some blue out lining around it to indicate water. During the class, he lifted each one into the boat and sat down in a chair and taught the class. One of the boys "fell out" of the boat and he saved him. This story really hit home for those kids. Emotion is a big sign for learning. Jesus knew this well. In this story in Matthew, it must have really hit home for them too. And there are lots of other stories Jesus told to evoke emotion too (ie. deamon possesed man and suicidal pips in Matthew 8:28-34; the sadness of the rich young ruler in Matt. 19:16-22; and so forth).
Of course not all emotions are good. It's never good to envoke fear into your learners by threatening them. Also, discipline will have negative effects on the child(ren).
(And as far as discipline is concerned, the real problem there is the child is bord with the curriculum be used. That means we need to have interactive learning. )
Emotions, when used constructivly, are great learning tools. Make the Bible stories you study come alive. The Hands-On- Bible- Curriculam produced by Group are great at that! We need to" make learning emotive" as the authors say in Dirt.
And lastly, they suggest we need to use "empathy factors". They use a great teaching activity here. Deviding the class into two groups. One group gets a candle. The other group lines up into two rows. The candle group has to go through the second group while the second group tries to blow out the carrier's light. (I hope that made sense!) This will provoke lots of responses. Trying to keep your Christian light burning while your friends burn your's out. But in the game, some one was always there to light it again. Very cool stuff.
I guess that is all for today. God bless you all in Jesus' name! Until next time-
Zack
ps. The Mavs won tonight! Wow! What a game that was! Go Mavs!
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