Teaching my first class
Posted: July 6th, 2015, 10:48 pm
So, I'm scheduled to teach a New Testament Greek class in the fall at my church (if anyone comes!), and I'm looking for advice on how to structure such a thing. I apologize if this has been discussed elsewhere; I looked! Here's a bit of my background:
Thanks!
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- I'm enamored of the communicative/living approaches to teaching Koine, so I'd like to try something in that area. I've read and watched a bit about TPR and TPRS, and am curious about SIOP. I think communicative approaches would lower the bar, and I want that. It's a large church, but I don't yet know how many people are interested. No sense scaring them off with paradigms and metalanguage right away.
- I've been through Buth's Living Koine Greek materials on my own, and I've been through 4 classes with Halcomb's Conversational Koine Institute. (I recommend both, by the way, and especially CKI! Halcomb's a great teacher.) Whether my fluency is up to the level needed to conduct communicative classes remains to be seen. I do have an MA in classical philology, but obviously that was all grammar-translation.
- I don't have any formal Greek teaching experience. I've worked with some small groups before, going through Mounce or Black.
- I have 1 hour and 15 minutes on Sunday mornings. Not enough time, I know.
- There would be about 12 sessions, I may be able to tack on a few extra.
- There is no mandated curriculum (obviously, that's why I'm posting!); this has not been done at this church as far as I know.
- I think it would be wise to integrate Scripture ASAP. This is a church, and the goal here is ultimately to read the New Testament.
- It starts in September.
Thanks!
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