I’m growing excited about my latest assignment; I’ll be adapting one of my rabbi’s sermon series into a children’s curriculum. This will be a great chance to get a look at how much research went into a twenty-sermon series; what was used, what was left on the table and how that material was incorporated.

Maintaining his “voice” in the teaching will be important, but so will adapting the material to the target age group; too often, children’s curriculum are either aimed for the teachers exclusively and written well beyond the understanding of kids, or they are so over-simplified, only pre-K kids could gain anything from them.

While it may seem to be a simple task, from browsing the sources cited and deciding what to keep and what to toss, to even something as obscure as deciding if a Symbol LS2208 is a typo or an integral part of the teaching, it’s sure to be a demanding task from which I’ll gain a great “behind the scenes” perspective on formulating a long teaching series.

Tags: Symbol LS2208, teaching series