Devising Your Religious Lesson Plans

By Jose McDonald


People who have positions as teachers in faith-based or private schools as well as people who volunteer to teach Sunday school once a week are required to create religious lesson plans to teach their students. When you are unsure of how to create such outlines, you might wonder what factors to take into consideration and how to make an impact on the pupils in your class. Using these guidelines, you could create lessons that your students can understand easily. You also can impart the more important facets of the faith or church doctrine that your students are expected to learn this year in school.

If you are teaching very young pupils, such as those from kindergarten through third grade, your instructions may center on teaching them the basics. Prayers, creeds, the names of saints or deities in your religion, and other fundamental components can be taught to young students in a way that they can remember them later as they progress through the catechism instruction. You could even make learning these facts a game and have them play to see how many they can remember each class session.

They also may be expected to know basic movements such as blessing themselves or genuflecting when they enter the sanctuary. Because they may not know the difference between their right hand, which is used to bless themselves, or their right knee, which they bend to genuflect, they might want to watch and imitate you as you do these movements. They are then ready to participate in worship services.

Older pupils will presumably know these fundamentals and thus be ready to take on more complex concepts. Your lessons might need to tackle controversial subjects that could make or break a young person's faith in the church. They might even ask you embarrassing or challenging questions regarding sexuality, drug use, and other topics. You may need to create lessons that will answer those concerns sufficiently.

In the same way your lessons will need to reassure adults who might have fallen out of line with church doctrine. Divorced individuals, for example, might feel like they cannot participate in the sacraments. They look to you as their teacher to tell them what they need to know to get right with the faith and to become more involved with the catechism doctrine.

You may overcome the biggest obstacles to teaching students of any age by outlining your lessons in a way that itemizes each principle step-by-step. Itemizing the points you want to impart to your pupils allows you to have a clear reference as you teach. It also allows you to source the appropriate references if debate arises.

You also could use the Internet to find examples of the lessons you need to create. Using the templates, you can devise instructions that make sense and are age appropriate. You would just need to fill in the blanks with the subjects you are expected to teach.

Devising lesson plans that are religiously based does not have to be a challenge. You might make it easier by using these tips. These directions also could help you reach out to people of all ages who otherwise might be unclear about the principles of the faith or the church with which you are affiliated.




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