After a couple of meetings with our pastor who teaches his class, she suggested we switch gears. Instead of sitting listening to lecture for an hour and a half, having just covered the same material as prep homework, he is instead to only pre-read the biblical text to be covered that day and will be the teachers assistant, doing the board writing, showing journeys on the maps (they are currently covering the exodus) and so forth.
For the first time, he came home so excited yesterday loving confirmation classes! In addition, he talked all the way home about something new. He learned that what we had believed to be the exodus route of the Isrealites through the Sinai Peninsula was indeed wrong.
The Red Sea Crossing shows us that they traveled straight through this area, already occupied by the Egyptians, to the Gulf of Agaba where the read red sea crossing occured (see link for archeological and theological proof).
They then travelled on to Mt. Sinai (Jabal el Lawz) with it's blackened peak.
Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in
fire. Exodus 19:18
It has been quite a day of learning and triumph.
2 comments:
Both my manboys tend to be the kinesthetic learners...we did a lot of using the white board and (when appropriate) the calculator, for equations, using an abbaccus and counting play money for math. I had to be creative in the ways they could learn in each subject when we homeschooled.
We did a lot of our Bible learning with flannelgraph--they told me the story and placed the figures. It's all important--especially with Scripture--to maintain an interest and curiosity for the student.
What a sensitive teacher/pastor! I love the inclusiveness and the way that it spurred him to be more interested...great story!
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Homeschooling is certainly a challenge when teaching to diverse learners. Thanks for sharing your experiences!
They parallel mine, though I was never able to find adequate flannelgraph figures. We turned instead to maps and a huge timeline that spans one wall of our school room on which we place names and event pictures. It worked well too.
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