Pages: (77-90 )
Abstract
There are abundant teaching methods within the traditional style. However, many teachers continue to struggle to integrate instruction, freedom, and Discipline in ways that increase learners' understanding, autonomy, and regulated ethical behavior. The gap is that Traditional teaching methods promote responsibility and performance in isolation from the learners’ decisions and participation. This process produces defective and ineffective leaders and followers. In His teaching methods, Jesus presents a unique integration of sound instruction, freewill and redemptive discipline. These lead to learners’ transformation and responsible followership. There is limited research on the application of the three included variables in the teaching process to address the leadership challenges teachers face in the classroom. This study analyzed Jesus’ teaching methods and derived lessons from them. The design was qualitative, based on content analyses. Textual data were derived from extant literature and relevant Bible texts. The primary data was elicited from the Bible, the secondary data from related literature and theories of teaching methods. The integration of Instruction, free will, and Discipline into the teaching methods was relevant to the expected learning outcomes. Jesus’ method of teaching clearly elicits the understanding of the instruction. The learners are then left to freely decide how to respond to the instructions. This freedom leads to self-regulation, but it also carries disciplinary consequences, both merits and demerits. This is important for training learners who become leaders in influencing others. This has implications for the kind of teachers hired, the teaching methods applied, and the learning outcomes expected.
Keywords: Instruction, Freewill, Discipline, Education, Leadership lessons, and Jesus’ teaching methods,