LDS Seminary

Scripture Mastery

START HERE: Be sure to check out our new scripture mastery games database, full of categorized scripture mastery game ideas. Other scripture mastery ideas I've collected lots of ideas for memorizing the scripture mastery scriptures for the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Old Testament and New Testaments here. Some are ideas shared by other...

Recommended Books

I'm too new at this to recommend many books, but I have to say that so far, Teach Like a Champion by Doug Lemov has been the most helpful for me. I don't have any formal training as a teacher, and this book helped me understand why the techniques I've accidentally discovered while teaching before...

Seminary Teaching Tips

Following are some teaching ideas from various teachers, especially as regards Seminary. The New Files Check out the new Teaching Techniques database! We've got ideas for lesson openers, getting everyone to participate, avoiding disruptions, asking better questions, and much more! The Old List This is the old list based off our old menu item of...

Structure of a Seminary Class

I've recently been called to teach Old Testament for Seminary next year. I'm pretty confident about how to teach a lesson, but since I've never actually been to a daily seminary class before, I have/had a lot of questions. After speaking with several other teachers (I hope you will talk to other teachers, too) I've...

A Century of Seminary

Janet Thomas, "A Century of Seminary," New Era, Jan. 2000, 26 In the early days of the Church, stakes in Utah actually operated their own schools. However, in the 20th century, the schools became public, and religious education seemed to be pushed aside. Seeing the need to teach young people about the scriptures, the stake...

Quotes for Seminary Teachers and Leaders

Below are some inspirational and uplifting quotes for LDS Seminary. Seminary is fun "But seminary is not all study. There are some fun and games." -- Elder Boyd K. Packer, Ensign, May 1990, p. 38 Blessings for Seminary Teachers "I pray that he will bless you in your homes and in your families, that as...

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Seminary Products

I've collected tons of great ideas for use with the LDS Seminary program. If you don't look at anything else, be sure to check out the Find By Scripture Reference library, where you can look through hundreds of blog posts, object lessons, handouts, and lesson tips from other teachers that have been used with the scripture block you're teaching. You probably already know about the Object Lesson Library and the Clipart & Handouts index, but did you know I also have a section for Solving Classroom Problems? I also recently added a section of Scripture Mastery Games -- the first to be indexed by number of scripture mastery passages taught and how long the game takes. You're going to love what you find here!