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10 Tips to Help You Break Out of Your Teaching Funk

6. Take a Break

If possible, take a week or two off of teaching to re-focus, let your spirit rest, and get your head and heart right with God. The bonus is you also give someone else a chance to gain experience as a teacher, which is a huge benefit to your ministry.

7. Evaluate Your Preparation Process

Do you have a good process for how are you writing/preparing for a lesson? Do you feel like your routine serves you or hinders you? Good routines equip you to teach. Bad ones hold you back and squelch creativity. Think about your preparation process and where you could tweak it to get a more positive outcome.

8. Try Something New

Nothing helps break out of a funk faster than changing it up. Try something different. Get off the stage. Change your room setup. Use more video. Use less video. Incorporate students more.

9. Trust in the Holy Spirit

When you’re down on yourself, remember the Holy Spirit is moving. Anything our students take away from our lessons is a credit to work of the Holy Spirit. Be encouraged. You’re not teaching under your own power.

10. Seek Input

Record your lessons and ask others to listen and give you feedback. Invite them to your room when you’re teaching so they can give great feedback too. Make sure they are people you trust who will be honest, about both your strengths and your weaknesses. And most importantly, listen to them.

We all know teaching God’s Word is central to our ministries. Making sure we’re as effective as possible is vital. 

We can all get better together. I’d love to hear your tips on breaking out of the dreaded “teaching funk” many of us have struggled with. 

What works for you?