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The Prayer Bucket

A veteran Seminary teacher told me about this method of choosing prayers for class that helps avoid having the same few kids volunteer to pray each day. I have used a similar method in Young Womens classes, too, and it works beautifully. You'll n...
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Power Phrases

I've made a list of Power Phrases that students can use in sharing the gospel. A power phrase is an opening phrase that precedes a testimony about a topic. Some teachers require their use during Seminary devotionals to help students learn to share ...

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Jenny's Seminary Handbook

This is the handbook I'm using for Seminary this year in PDF and Open Office formats. It was useful for me as a new Seminary teacher to write out my rules and expectations. The academic grade is determined by whatever means the teacher determines. ...

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Find Ideas by Scripture Reference

LDS Article I have recently begun tagging content by the chapter it references. Not all content that references a scripture is indexed here, but it's a start. Click on the following links below to find helps relating to that scripture, including handouts, quotes, and stories: 1 Corinthians 15 ...
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Mormon Share Seminary Visual Aids

LDS Article Here is our gigantic list of Seminary handouts and visual aids. Sacred Grove Submitted by Jenny Smith on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 3:45pm The Sacred Grove in Palmyra, New York, is the site of the First Vision -- when Joseph Smith sa...
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General Conference Review Games for Seminary

LDS Article The veteran teachers I've talked to like to encourage students to watch general conference by playing games. DeAnn and Brent review points from the talks in a jeopardy style game. Paula A says, "At October and April [conference] we also gave mini prizes for noting [scripture mastery] used by speakers." Fun! Here are some great ideas at the RedHea...
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Ideas for Seminary Lessons

LDS Article My teacher friends gave me zillions of great ideas for use during individual lessons. I will go through my notes and try to list them here. This will follow the rough order that a class might take. Sign Ins DeAnn puts a table by the door of her classroom where students sign in each day. The table has a sign in sheet, pen, and clock on it. The s...
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The First Week of Class

LDS Article During the first week of class you'll be setting a pattern for your classes and taking care of some housekeeping items. Here are some tips for your first week that I've collected: Establish patterns Begin class on time the first day. If you plan to use a scripture journal or scripture mastery games, sing, or hold daily devotionals, start those fro...
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Splitting Students into Teams to Learn the Gospel

LDS Article Seminary Mom likes to split her classes into groups for gospel learning. Here's how she taught 3 Nephi 11 over the course of two days, while splitting into groups for researching the scripture topic: Today was a special day as we began our study of 3 Nephi 11, the crowning moment in the Book of Mormon. I know that the suggested teaching schedule ...
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When things go wrong in the classroom

LDS Forum Sometimes things go wrong in the gospel class room -- even if you're Seminary Mom! Read the following to find out how Seminary Mom learned from a mistake without beating herself up: Well, today pointed out to me why I don't usually use competitive team games in my classroom. I had divided the class into two teams, Team A and Team B. There are a cou...
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A Spiritual Feast - Using a multi-day scripture teaching theme

LDS Article Seminary Mom used lunch sacks to emphasize the importance of the material in 3 Nephi -- truly a spiritual feast. Kids in her class added notecards to their lunch sacks each day during the lesson to add to their feast. It's a great example of how to carry a theme over multiple days for lesson continuity. Below is her description of how it worked....
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Lesson Preparation Tips from Seminary Mom

LDS Forum I received a recent email which asked me how I prepare and plan for my lessons. Here is what I responded (modified slightly): * * * "What I have found most successful for me in lesson preparation are four steps which I spread throughout the week: ...
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Using Art to teach the Gospel

LDS Article Seminary Mom is big on hands-on activities, something I think is very important. Here are a couple of her ideas for using art to teach different messages in the scriptures: Principles to Live by (Helaman 15-16 Malachi 3 Principles to Live By Today our scripture block was Helaman 15-16. Using the manual I introduced several of the important disc...
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MormonTeacher.com promotion for MormonShare.com users

LDS Forum The first four lesson presentations for 2011 are free on MormonTeacher.com to all MormonShare.com visitors! Just visit this link: http://mormonteacher.com/promo/ MormonTeacher.com is a website that provides its members with PowerPoint presentations (or Keynote presentations for Mac and iPad users) for each of the Young Women's and Young Men's lesso...
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Seminary Mom: Gospel Quilt Teaching Activity

ACTIVITY: Interestingly enough, the scripture we are working on for scripture mastery this week is Alma 37:6-7: "Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to...
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