Who is the Teacher
In recognizing that the gifts we use are of the Holy Spirit and that God causes the growth in children’s lives, we acknowledge that he is the children’s true Teacher. We are not the fount of all knowledge. We don’t have to know everything to be used by God to teach children. We simply have to be willing to be used as instruments of change in his hand. We don’t know everything, but God does. This is why we put children in direct contact with the Word of God. He will teach the children—just as he teaches us—through his Word. This does not let us off the hook as vigilant shepherds of these little ones and guardians of the truth. But rather than feeling inadequate or worried that we don’t know enough, we can continue to learn in a calm, patient, non-anxious way. Then we can allow children to learn and grow in the same way, with slow and steady progress as God allows.
Children need to do the work of learning themselves. The teacher's role is merely to present the content and facilitate the child's ownership of it. Narration is the primary tool that facilitates information into knowledge. The teacher is to simply set the content, or aka “meal”, before the children allowing them to feast on their own and should refrain from predigesting the food given to the child in an overbearing lecture. If the child is given new life in Christ by the Spirit, he or she will grow when given the opportunity to consume the Word.