Help! I'm a Junior High Youth Worker!
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Help! I'm a Junior High Youth Worker!

50 Ways to Survive and Thrive in Ministry to Early Adolescents

  1. 64 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Help! I'm a Junior High Youth Worker!

50 Ways to Survive and Thrive in Ministry to Early Adolescents

About this book

To Be a Junior High Youth Worker . . . takes a distinct kind of adult, just as junior highers are a distinct kind of people. Betwixt and between though they may be, early adolescents are as capable of a genuine spiritual understanding and growth as high schoolers.It's just that junior highers absorb Bible teaching and demonstrate their spirituality—well, differently. Help! I'm a Junior High Youth Worker! is your primer for understanding young teenagers, then teaching them with a mind-set and with methods that fit them.First Things First. Three axioms that define your territory as a junior high youth worker.So Just What Is a Junior Higher, Anyway? The essence of early adolescence: the need for appropriate rules . . . the dilemma of throwing sixth graders and eighth graders together in the same program . . . small is good.Developmentally Speaking. Changes junior highers enjoy and endure cognitively, emotionally, socially, spiritually . . . their changing relationships with parents . . . individuation and hair under their arms.Time to Teach! Your required dose of pedagogy: the case for fun learning . . . ten top teaching topics for middle school ministry . . . how simulations, role plays, and storytelling can be your best teaching methods for early adolescents.Faith Outside the Youth Room. Spiritual discipleship for middle schoolers: they don't have to be high schoolers to begin forming habits of prayers, service, and outreach.Help! I'm a Junior High Youth Worker! is help at hand surviving and thriving in ministry to early adolescents.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. First Things First: Three axioms that define your territory
  9. So Just What Is a Junior Higher, Anyway?: The essence of early adolescence
  10. Developmentally Speaking: Changes junior highers enjoy and endure
  11. Time to Teach!: Now for your dose of pedagogy…
  12. Faith Outside the Youth Room: Spiritual disciplines for middle schoolers
  13. So You’re In Charge?: Insight for youth ministry directors (whether volunteer or paid), who plan and lead programs
  14. About the Publisher
  15. Share Your Thoughts