How To Choose Sunday School Curriculum

The bottom line in evaluating the curriculum for Sunday School is evaluation. You, your selection committee and his leadership of the church need to establish criteria for the selection of the best programs for their Sunday school program. Designing a scoring system to help you compare your options. With a properly prepared evaluation form once you have chosen the winner, who can confidently explain the choice to anyone who needs to know.

Prepare an evaluation form

The scorecard is a tool that allows you to monitor and compare the properties of different curriculum are considering. However, before you can design one, you will need to configure both your goals and your constraints.

To identify your goals, start by answering this question: What will you have in the lives of your students at the end of the year? With the answer firmly in mind:

Consider your educational goals. If your church is important that children learn the Bible largely contained in a given year, the curriculum, which is to spend several weeks exploring the history of the Bible in detail would be ensured a measure negative.

Consider your physical condition. How many rooms do you have? How big? If you have limited space, so the materials that need more work stations, "in each category may not be appropriate.

Consider the available staff, teachers and support teachers who have?

Consider your budget. How much money can you realistically spend on materials?

Next, to identify the important features of the curriculum in the program. Here are some questions you can include in the curriculum evaluation form on Sunday.

Conceptual content

It is a Sunday school program produced by a particular name?

What is the theological position?

The content of the Bible and art of the faithful, and consistent with the Bible?

What is the balance between the Old and New Testament?

This is a lectionary-based curriculum?

Is this an open curriculum based on race, economic status, gender and disability?

These are the teachings of practice?

Physical content - What is actually included in the price of the Sunday school?

Teacher's Guide?

Lesson plans?

Activities?

Song sheets?

Crafts?

Cassette, CD or video?

Memory work?

Play?

Home materials for students?

Public

This Sunday school curriculum should be time for you to teach?

Is it attractive?

How effective are the materials? Is that children learn what is presented?

If you have a small church, ask yourself:

Games for more than 10 children?

Crafts or activities that require assistance?

What with expensive materials?

Is work experience with multi-age groups?

Teacher Resources

This is the Sunday School teacher curriculum environment?

For beginning teachers and experienced?

How much teacher preparation is necessary?

Parental involvement

There is a Sunday School curriculum is designed so that parents are encouraged to participate in the spiritual formation of their children?

It is the "home" materials that parents are used together as a family, to strengthen education?

Costs

Curricula Sunday school to be used more than once?

What is the physical quality of the product? Will the materials last as long as you need them?

How does the price compare with other Sunday school curriculum?

When evaluating cost, remember to factor in the supplied material and any additional cost elements if you're inclined to buy them.

You can add other questions that are relevant to your situation or your name. The important thing is to have a framework to work.

Adding weight to the evaluation sheet

Once you have listed all the factors (problems) to decide the relative importance of each, using a scale of 1 to 5. For example, the question "Is there a" take home "materials that parents are to be used together as a family, to improve the lesson? One answer might be yes worth five points, while none would get zero points. (In these examples, most points, the better the program. You can make it work another way, if you will.)

For things like the cost, both assigned a weight and level of support. For example, if your budget is generous in Sunday school may be assigned a cost weight of three. You can cut costs, as if they never pay more than $ 26 per student per year: [0 - $ 3.99] => three [$ 4 to 12.99] => two [$ 13 - $ 25.99] => and [ $ 26 and above] => zero.

Example Scored

Curriculum:

Lectionary-based: Yes (5 points), take materials home: Yes (3 points) Cost: $ 10 per student (4 times 3 = 12 points): Total score: 20 points

Curriculum B

Lectionary based: No (0 points), have the materials home: No (0 points), and $ 2.50 per student (5 times 3 = 15 points): Total score: 15 points

Although the curriculum of B is much cheaper than the curriculum, the curriculum scored higher. The curriculum can be chosen confidence.