Tamaki Teachers Retreat Take 2

Today - Saturday 25th August 2012, our Sunday School Teachers gathered at Pt England School to have a good time sharing and learning about ways we can help our students and their families in our ministry as Sunday School Teachers.

A time of singing was led by Bob then devotion time with Ray.  Ray's devotion had us sharing about teaching or truths that we now live by - by way of our parents teachings/witness to us.  Some amazing stories were told.  Then a time of learning some effective ways to deliver lessons.  This part was led by Teiho.  Part of this was the task of coming with an aim and objective for teaching using an item that Teiho gave you.  Some very creative ideas...  All you need is a bit of imagination, resources in your immediate surrounding really can be used in teaching!

Ria shared about this very blog that has been in operation since 2009.  It's benefits and far reaching ministry through this online space.  We heard the voice of students who shared about the blessing of receiving comments on posts and work produced by themselves.  Lesson to take from this?? Sunday School is not limited to the hour and a half located on Sunday - it's accessible 24hrs 7 days a week!  So let's use this space well!  It was encouraging to hear that one of our teachers actually has our blog page as her home page ;)

We put our minds together and thought forward to students who are going to travel through our Sunday School...we were to make a list that answered the question: 'What do we want them to possess when they come to the end of Sunday School?'  Many many ideas were shared and so the planning began.  In departments we used the lists we made to pick out what we thought would be appropriate to teach and learn about the identified tools/knowledge/practices.

So where did we get to?  We now have a curriculum developing from 0 years through to the open class.  One where we will refine and shape under the guidance of Tama and our Sunday School leaders.  God willing - 2013 will be kicked off with another retreat for all our teachers with a Tamaki Custom made curriculum in hand.

TAMAKI PIC TEACHERS RETREAT

Talofa and greetings everyone from the teachers retreat at Point England School...

Opened with fun and new activities to get the group started...already we are calling each other by their middle names....other cool ideas to help the kids, cross word, food treats, map out journey for the class, its great to share ideas and look at interesting ways of putting the same lesson across to our kids....

This is also my first time writing on our BLOG so feeling pretty happy to get the chance...

Its been an awesome day, thanx to the crew for first half of the day....now its lunch time...master chef Tatupu....

God bless Kereti.