Comments on: So, You Were Asked to be the Sunday School Superintendent! http://mintools.com/blog/sunday-school-superintendent.htm equipping believers for ministry Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:36:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: MinTools http://mintools.com/blog/sunday-school-superintendent.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2588 MinTools Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:06:03 +0000 http://mintools.com/blog/?p=2872#comment-2588 So glad it was helpful, Denise. May God use it to His glory. So glad it was helpful, Denise. May God use it to His glory.

]]> By: Denise http://mintools.com/blog/sunday-school-superintendent.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2587 Denise Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:53:56 +0000 http://mintools.com/blog/?p=2872#comment-2587 This entire collective piece of information was most helpful. Thank you. This entire collective piece of information was most helpful.

Thank you.

]]> By: MinTools http://mintools.com/blog/sunday-school-superintendent.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1228 MinTools Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:45:14 +0000 http://mintools.com/blog/?p=2872#comment-1228 Hello, Abbie. Evaluation is an important responsibility of a Sunday School superintendent and needs to be done with the right motivation but also using a process that is constructive. If you are sharing results with teachers, you need to prepare them for both positive and negative criticism. You do not want them getting defensive nor so discouraged that they want to quit. Help them understand that it is a tool. Having students evaluate the teachers is one way of doing it. Self-assessment can also be good. And, observation of teachers by leadership can be helpful as well. Ideally, a combination of all three would be good using a similar set of questions with each and then comparing all results. That way if any of the results are skewed, a look from the three perspectives could help bring a more realistic picture. The exact questions you use would have to be worded in keeping with the age of the students ... children, youth, or adults. The questions you use should also reflect what you want to measure. You might want to use a scale for them to respond with rather than a simple yes/no format of questions to potentially get a more accurate representation of how the teacher is doing. Or you might ask them to give examples. You want to avoid students being able to simply check off responses without truly thinking it through or being able to back it up so the evaluation doesn't become a personality check but rather is a true assessment of the teaching. You can ask: 1) if the teacher seems prepared 2) if the teacher seems to have a good understanding of the lesson himself 3) if the teacher communicates in ways they can understand (i.e., vocabulary, concepts, etc.) 4) if the teacher encourages participation 5) if the teacher uses enough variety & creative methodology 6) if the teacher uses enough visualization in the lesson 7) if the teacher uses class time wisely 8) if the teacher seems to answer questions honestly and respectfully 9) if the teacher explains instructions well 10) if the teacher is clear about expectations 11) if the teacher seems attentive to student needs You can also ask questions along the line of: 1) how the teacher has contributed to their spiritual growth 2) what they see as the teacher's greatest strength 3) what is most frustrating to them about the Sunday School class Hello, Abbie. Evaluation is an important responsibility of a Sunday School superintendent and needs to be done with the right motivation but also using a process that is constructive. If you are sharing results with teachers, you need to prepare them for both positive and negative criticism. You do not want them getting defensive nor so discouraged that they want to quit. Help them understand that it is a tool. Having students evaluate the teachers is one way of doing it. Self-assessment can also be good. And, observation of teachers by leadership can be helpful as well. Ideally, a combination of all three would be good using a similar set of questions with each and then comparing all results. That way if any of the results are skewed, a look from the three perspectives could help bring a more realistic picture.

The exact questions you use would have to be worded in keeping with the age of the students … children, youth, or adults. The questions you use should also reflect what you want to measure.

You might want to use a scale for them to respond with rather than a simple yes/no format of questions to potentially get a more accurate representation of how the teacher is doing. Or you might ask them to give examples. You want to avoid students being able to simply check off responses without truly thinking it through or being able to back it up so the evaluation doesn’t become a personality check but rather is a true assessment of the teaching.

You can ask:

1) if the teacher seems prepared
2) if the teacher seems to have a good understanding of the lesson himself
3) if the teacher communicates in ways they can understand (i.e., vocabulary, concepts, etc.)
4) if the teacher encourages participation
5) if the teacher uses enough variety & creative methodology
6) if the teacher uses enough visualization in the lesson
7) if the teacher uses class time wisely
8) if the teacher seems to answer questions honestly and respectfully
9) if the teacher explains instructions well
10) if the teacher is clear about expectations
11) if the teacher seems attentive to student needs

You can also ask questions along the line of:

1) how the teacher has contributed to their spiritual growth
2) what they see as the teacher’s greatest strength
3) what is most frustrating to them about the Sunday School class

]]> By: abbie butler http://mintools.com/blog/sunday-school-superintendent.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1227 abbie butler Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:53:06 +0000 http://mintools.com/blog/?p=2872#comment-1227 What questions can be asked of the students to evaluate the effectiveness of the Sunday School teachers ? What questions can be asked of the students to evaluate the effectiveness of the Sunday School teachers ?

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