How Children Are Motivated To Learn
It’s no surprise children of different ages are differently motivated to learn! In order to best reach the children in our classrooms, we need to learn how to best motivate…
Teaching Tips
It’s critical to recruit volunteers to your children’s ministry who love God, love serving, and love kids. But what’s even more important for a healthy ministry is equipping those volunteers with resources and information to help them grow into their roles as teachers. This is the section for that!
What You’ll Find
In our teaching tips area, you’ll find articles like “How to Infuse Life-Long Faith in Preschoolers,” “3 Hard God-Questions Kids Ask (and How to Answer!),” and “4 Mistakes to Avoid When Teaching Kids the Bible.”
You can also search our teaching tips by age range, including nursery, preschool, elementary, and preteen, or you can search by topic, such as discipline. So whether you need help crafting better questions, tips on making Scripture stick, or ways to calm high-energy kids, we’ve got you covered.
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15 Important Ways to Fill Your Ministry With Prayer
Use these 15 ways to fill your ministry with prayer—just as the disciples asked Jesus when he taught them the Lord’s Prayer: “Teach us to pray.” “God is great, God…
Kids’ Faith: How to Get the Rites Right
How well does your children’s ministry recognize the importance of kids’ milestones and rites? In many cultures around the world, children are officially connected to their culture, ancestry, and belief…
5 Ways to Calm High-Energy Kids
Sometimes kids are just wild. It seems kids share energy, and it only takes one to start fidgeting before the whole class follows suit. Even when sessions are filled with…
13 Ways to Turn Extra Time Into Extraordinary Learning
Got extra time on your hands and a room full of kids—but you’ve used up all your lesson? Here’s your indispensable guide to turning extra class time into extraordinary learning…
4 Ways To Help Preteens See Who They Are
My son was 11 years old when he needed to choose his first pair of glasses. I’d decided to order them from a company that encourages you to choose frames…
The 7 Most Common Mistakes Teachers Make
Here are the seven most common areas where children’s ministry teachers need to either talk less or talk more efficiently. Teachers, on the whole, are doing a great job. They’re…
Why Teaching with Grace is so Important
Here’s why Grace is the key component in your teaching toolbox. He was a boy with a knack for trouble. Maybe it was his love of creativity, hunger for freedom,…
How to Make the Bible Even More Exciting
The Bible is the greatest love story ever written and the most thrilling adventure ever told. Yet all too often in children’s ministry, when it’s time for retelling events from…
Are Rewards a Token for Classroom Success?
To give (prizes, points, rewards, candy, and treats) or not to give? That is the question. Some experts say that giving kids tokens, rewards, candy, and the like destroys their…
