Here are pictures of the exam the class created. Good job!

I have been using the following poem in Christian Education classes for years.  It suggests that some teaching methods continue to be performed in a given way because they have always been done that way.  Tell me what you think.

When the guru sat down to
    worship each evening,
The ashram cat would get in the way
    and distract the worshippers.
So he ordered that the cat be tied
    during evening worship.

After the guru died, the cat continued
    to be tied during evening worship.
And when the cat expired, another cat
    was brought to the ashram
so that it could be duly tied
    during evening worship.

Centuries later, learned treatises were
    written by the guru’s scholarly disciples
on the liturgical significance
    of tying up a cat
while worship is performed.

Anthony de Mello, “The Guru’s Cat,”
The Song of the Bird,
Doubleday: New York, 1982, p. 63.

Below is the reference and abstract to an article about AWANA Timothy award winners I mentioned in class.  I will report the findings of the study in class. You are welcome to look it up in advance. What effects have you observed in AWANA participants?

Volume 4; Issue 1; Spring 2007, Series 3Three-Year Outcome: Effects of Former AWANA Timoth-Award Recipients Michael W. Firmin
and Grant E. Knight                               page 100

Abstract
The present study follows Firmin, Kuhn, Michonski, and Posten (2005) in a series of empirical investigations regarding residual effects of former AWANA participants. We selected 24 Timothy award conducted in-depth interviews with each participant, utilizing a rigorous qualitative research method. Four themes were evident in analyzing the data: salient AWANA influences during the time of the child’s participation in AWANA, the current life of the participants, social trends of the participants through their time in AWANA to present day, and the participants’’ thought and feelings on how they perceived AWANA to have been conducted.