I’m both a pastor and a public school teacher, and while prayer is definitely needed in both occupations, there isn’t a lot of cross over in what I do from one position to the other. However, occasionally, I’ll pick up a little tiny piece of wisdom in one field that just might help me in the other.
Last week, while teaching my largest, most difficult class, I realized that part of their problem in learning the material was my fault.
What had I done?
I had used PowerPoint.
PowerPoint, Microsoft’s presentation juggernaut, allows me to put my students’ lesson on a smart board so that they can copy it down without me having to write, erase, and rewrite the notes each hour. This is very helpful. However, the problem crops up when it comes to demonstrations of the lesson.
Here’s what happens: