How to Teach Religion - Principles and Methods

The Project Gutenberg eBook, How to Teach Religion, by George Herbert Betts This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: How to Teach Religion Principles and Methods Author: George Herbert Betts Release Date: May 8, 2005 [eBook #15800] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW TO TEACH RELIGION*** E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Karina Aleksandrova, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team The Abingdon Religious Education Texts David B. Downey, General Editor COMMUNITY TRAINING SCHOOL SERIES NORMAN E. RICHARDSON, Editor HOW TO TEACH RELIGION PRINCIPLES AND METHODS BY GEORGE HERBERT BETTS THE ABINGDON PRESS NEW YORK CINCINNATI 1926 DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO HAVE IN THEIR KEEPING THE RELIGIOUS DESTINY OF AMERICA—THE TWO MILLION TEACHERS IN OUR CHURCH SCHOOLS. CONTENTS I. The Teacher Himself 13 Importance of the teacher—Three types of teachers—The personal factor in teaching religion—Developing the power of personality—The cultivatable factors in personality—A scale for determining personality—The teacher's mastery of subject- matter—Methods of growth—Fields of mastery demanded— Service and rewards—Problems and questions. II.