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Deep Teaching – Why Jesus shouldn’t always be the answer in kidmin
Who was in the back of the boat? Jesus. Who stopped the wind and the waves? Jesus. What did you have for dinner last night? Jesus. If every child we teach thinks the answer to our questions is...
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Wait time – making your questions more effective in kidmin
Last week I watched a lesson where two very bright and knowledgeable girls had their hands up for most of the lesson and answered almost all the questions. Meanwhile one boy built a tower with some...
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Using Questions to create discussion in #kidmin
You have just told the children a bible story and now you want to start a discussion that will help them to think more deeply about the story and how it can be applied in their lives. But what can...
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Using questions to review facts in #kidmin
Last week I wrote about IRE questioning where the teacher INITIATES a question; a child RESPONDS to the question;and the teacher EVALUATES whether the answer is correct. This is not the way to get a...
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Questions in kids’ ministry – what to do when children ask questions
Have you ever been teaching a lesson and something stops the kids in their tracks and their questions start to fall like a torrential rain? Every teacher I speak to loves that moment. One teacher...
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Book Review: Thinking through Quality Questioning: Deepening Student...
Thinking through Quality Questioning: Deepening Student Engagement by J.A. Walsh and B.D. Sattes This book provides an excellent framework for thinking about the questions we ask children in our...
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What kinds of questions should we be asking in kid’s ministry?
What is a great question you have asked? Why should we ask them? Do you love them or hate them? Do you prepare them or make them up on the spot? I love thinking and reading about asking questions in...
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Using the Question Quadrant to evaluate and adapt a kids’ ministry lesson
In my last post I talked about the Question Quadrant (QQ), a helpful tool for writing questions that lead to deep thinking. Today I am going to evaluate the questions in a lesson using the QQ....
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SCAMPER: a playful and creative way to prepare questions for kids’ ministry
Here’s a useful approach for helping children think through a Bible passage that I found recently in my reading. SCAMPER is an acronym that provides a thinking strategy developed by Bob Eberle in...
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Helping children to engage with, and explore a Bible story
I had an interesting conversation with my son who is training to be an actor last night. He was talking about an acting technique called Given Circumstances. It was developed by Constantin...
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