Sunday, November 14, 2010

Connect the dots

Today the pastor was showing the kids during the children’s’ sermon his ‘Connect the Dots Coloring Book’.  He said that there was a hidden picture but in order to see the picture, you had to start with A, then draw a line to B, over to C, up to D, down to E, and so forth until you arrived at the end and then you saw the picture.  “You cannot start and jump from letter to letter”.  (Don Guthrie, pastor First Baptist Church San Antonio November 14, 2010)  I started to think about Michael Fullan’s The Six Secrets of Change, rule number 2: Connect Your Peers with a Purpose.  People need to know their work is important and how it relates to other people’s work and at the end, you see the big picture. 

2 comments:

Jimmy Shuck said...

I agree. It is also very important for our students to know why they need the information being provided and what purpose it serves.

Professor said...

That is a good analogy for mastery teaching. Too often we fail to connect the dots for the learners.