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Study Section 14: The Presentation

14.1 Connect

You have been building your house and it’s almost done. You have the kitchen installed
and tile in the bathrooms. You are almost ready to move into your new home with your
family. The day you move in is an exciting day. You bring your furniture into the house and
set it up in each room. You unpack your boxes of things and put them away. You are now
ready to occupy your house. All your hard work, your preparation, is now paying off.

For a teacher, the hard work has been completed. Preparation and creating the lesson is done.
Methods of presentation have been selected. The plan is complete. Now is the day that the plan is
commenced. It is time to present the lesson to the students so they can experience God’s Word first
hand. Today we learn about the presentation…..

14.2 Objectives

1. The student should be able to discover that the methods of presentation depend a lot on
the size of the group to whom you are presenting as well as age, maturity level, and various
other factors.

2. The student should be able to describe ways the teacher can do to communicate clearly.

3. The student should be able to explain that teaching the Scriptures is done by the Holy Spirit guiding
the mind of the human teacher. Teaching the Bible is a God thing.

4. The student should be able to explain that practicing a lesson will help a lot toward budgeting time
and transitions within a lesson.

14.3 The Presentation

Now that you have carefully prepared for the lesson in content, we need to prepare to make
your presentation. You may have all kinds of gems in material, but unless you can effectively
communicate that information to others, they will never be blessed. So a GREAT teacher not
only has to plan the content of the lesson, but also has to put a lot of thought and prayer
into the presentation.

The type of presentation you will select depends a lot on the size of your class. If you are presenting the
information to a small group, say around six people, your style can be much more informal and the
interaction between you as a teacher and your class can be more intimate, yet you can still deliver your
content. However, if you are teaching a class of 10 or more, your delivery methods are more limited
and more formal, mainly because of time constraints.

The rule of thumb is this: “The larger the student population, the more formal methods have to be
selected (lecture, limited discussion, limited questions and answers). The smaller the group, the more
informal options increase and the more more interactive methods there are.”

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