Eldrbarry's Christian Education Manual

In the process of teaching, storytelling, developing curruculum and other aspects of doing Christian Education through several decades, I have gathered a lot of useful material - both theoretical and practical - related to teaching. I put together this "manual" to share with others who are teaching in church situations or elsewhere, from my experience and explorations of the teaching process. Unless otherwide noted, these are Adobe Acrobat pdf files, which can be opened with the free reader.

• Christian Education and Children/ Preparing Lessons for Children

• The Seven Laws of Teaching in several forms with links
• The Four Kinds of Learners and the Seven Styles of Learning
• Towards a Biblical Model of Learning from Ruth Beechick
• Age Differences and Moral Development in Children
• Memory Work Philosophies and Approaches by Barry McWilliams

• Some Basic Principles for Storytellers (1st edition) - Barry's web version (htm)
• Eldrbarry's Effective Storytelling Manual (2nd edition) Barry's web version (html)
• Storytelling and Pre-Schoolers by Wendy Welch - Barry's web version (html)

• How to Keep a Class Happy and Interesting by Kathy Perrigo
• Choosing Story Teaching Methods By Barry McWilliams - Quite practical!!
• Storytelling--Flannelboard by Inez Ramsey from another web site
• Why Active Games? (linked to Eldrbarry's Group Games)

• Adult Teaching Dynamics by Barry McWilliams
• Designing a Bible Class/ Evaluation Guidelines
• Adult Teaching Methods: Some Ideas (Unknown)
• Real Life Bible Stories (html) by Sean Buvala [Visit his Storyteller Net for lots of useful articles]
• Discerning the Story Structures of the Narrative Literature of the Bible by Barry McWilliams- his web version (html)

• All the above - a 50 page pdf file
• Eldrbarry's Do it Yourself VBS Curriculums Including How to do them Yourself
• Preaching Books List, also bibliographies on Missions, Mercy Ministry and Stewardship.