Preparing to Teach the Lesson
A GOOD way of both perfecting and testing your preparatory study of a lesson, as a teacher, is for you to state to yourself in a few words the points of your proposed lesson-teaching. Some one has facetiously said, that in the average church prayer-meeting he would like the privilege of calling out at the close of a rambling speaker's remarks, according to the custom in deliberative bodies, "Will the gentleman be so good as to submit his proposition in writing?" In other words, What have you been saying? What point, if any, were you trying to make? It would be well for every teacher to ask himself, before he sets out for his class, What am I now ready to teach my scholars—to cause my scholars to know—to-day? His preliminary study should be made with that question before him for ultimate answer.—Teaching and Teachers.