Teacher support

I. Manual for Sunday School Teachers in UU Congregations

The Teacher’s Manual gives an overview of teaching for both new and experienced Sunday school teachers. Written for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto in 2015, the first three chapters remain of interest today.

Chapter 1: Goals and Visions — Why teaching religious education is so important.

Chapter 2: Basics of Teaching — Nuts and bolts information for volunteer teachers.

Chapter 3: Models of Teaching and Learning — Deepen your knowledge of teaching, and add to your teaching tool kit


II. Podcasts for Sunday school teachers

Hosted by Joe Chee, teacher educator at Foothills College, with Rev. Dan Harper, Associate Minister of Religious Education at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto.

This series of 11 podcasts was recorded in 2009-2010 for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto. Individual podcasts range from 8 to 17 minutes in length.

Main podcast page

Transcriptions of the first 7 podcasts — includes brief notes (from 2026) with some updates and a few corrections.