Trainer and Educator CYM

1. Trainer and Educator CYM Goals for the talk • Empowering the young people to experience, learn and go deeper • The incorporation of different learning styles • Tools for evaluating programmes Jesus Camp video – are you challenged or troubled?

2. Trainer and Educator CYM Two more metaphors that describe part of our role. Trainer/Educator – one who assists others in learning more about and practicing more deeply the Christian faith. [always a dual role of student - humility]

3. Trainer and Educator CYM - For the apostle Paul Christian education involved three things • “Catechesis” – oral teachings (usually preparing for baptism) • Exhortation – calling people to and encouraging people in the way of holiness and community. • Discernment – discovering what God is doing (or would have us do) here and now - Each of these involves formation and education Osmer, Richard, The Teaching Ministry of the Congregation (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2005)

4. Trainer and Educator CYM Each of these elements can be described from the perspective of formation or education • Formation – relationships, practices, narratives and norms of a community's shared life • Education – practices that focus directly on teaching and learning

5. Trainer and Educator CYM Further definitions and examples: Catechesis • Paul’s assumption that people have learned the OT – Galatians – not Jewish • Common citing of early creeds (Rom. 10:9, Php 2) • Mentoring examples • Formation and Education

6. Trainer and Educator CYM Further definitions and examples: Exhortation - Using Thessalonians: • Moral Formations through example and Relationships - He uses exemplars (2:1-31) - note how this happens in programs – empowering parents to be exemplars – older youth and the leaders – living reminders • He builds on the relational example to offer Moral Teaching (4:1-5:22) • Church examples • Formation and Education

7. Trainer and Educator CYM Discernment: Learning to interpret everyday life eschatologically – using 1Corinthians • Divisions in the light of the cross 1Co 1:10-3:4 • Discernment and the Lord’s Supper 11:17-34 • Discernment of a social issue 1 Co 8-11 • Other examples of how Paul is teaching this.. • Church examples • Formation and Education

8. Trainer and Educator CYM • Take a look at the programmes you work with and name what they are in these categories in groups of two.

9. Trainer and Educator CYM Three common dangers of an Educator • we have the answers and you don’t • McFaith • Our need to be liked

10. Trainer and Educator CYM • cultural groups approach the Bible with their own unique cultural perspective. • young people bring to the Bible their unique perspective which is shaped by the distinctive nature of childhood and adolescence as a stage in life and in some cases the cultural contrast between the young people and their church.

11. Trainer and Educator CYM Biblical interpretation in church settings is usually done for Children & young people. • The first way is to provide young people with the “correct interpretation” of passage under consideration. • The second is the more subtle gently guiding a discussion to the point where the leaders interpretation is “discovered”. IS THIS TRUE FOR YOU?

12. Trainer and Educator CYM Children & Y P as Hermeneutists • Understanding the young people as hermeneutists • Constructing local meaning and understanding it in the grand narrative. • Experiencing the Biblical authority Themselves [provide examples] Children & Y P as Liturgists Children & Y P as Theologians

13. Empowering Youth • CONE OF LEARNING • WE TEND TO REMEMBER OUR LEVEL OF INVOLVEMENT • (developed and revised by Bruce Hyland from material by Edgar Dale) • Acrobat file

14. Trainer and Educator CYM LEARNING STYLES • The Right Eyed / Left Eyed test • We receive and process information differently

15. Trainer and Educator CYM • Felder and Silverman's Index of Learning Styles http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/ILSpage.html A test your group can take… • Index of Learning Styles developed by Richard Felder and Linda Silverman in the late 1980s. According to this model (which Felder revised in 2002) there are four dimensions of learning styles. Think of these dimensions as a continuum with one learning preference on the far left and the other on the far right.

16. Trainer and Educator CYM Sensory Intuitive Visual Verbal Active Reflective Sequential Global

17. Trainer and Educator CYM Western • Achievement through ability • Motivated by extrinsic (its stimulating – am I likely to succeed?) • Encourage children to be accretive • independent, self-exploration on own terms • Low peer support and collaborative learning • Learning problem solving • Higher self evaluation Confucian Heritage Culture • Achievement through hard work - effort • Intrinsic – it has value diligent and receptive- success expected If I work hard. • Encourage children to adhere to group norm • Internal disposition to accept obedience, Conformity, and persistence that school cultures require • High collaborative learning • memorization – problem solving • Realistic self-evaluation

18. Trainer and Educator CYM • What different learning styles are used in your setting? What is dominant?