John Bushman taught Seminary for 10 years and is now a coordinator in Washington state. Here are some of his helpful Seminary files, which include ideas for discipline, tardies, makeup work, class officer responsibilities, spotlights and others. You can download the files below, or visit John’s website at
http://www.johnbushman.com/teaching-helps.html
to thank him or download the files. I am posting them here as a backup because free websites have a tendency to disappear….. :(
Here are John’s descriptions of some of the files:
- Class Discipline: This document gives many ideas on how to avoid class discipline problems, and also what to do when they do happen. There is also a behavior contract you can use.
- Makeup Work: Here are ideas for how to administer makeup work and what to give for makeup work.
- Tardies: Most every teacher has to deal with the problem of students being tardy. Here are some solutions for the problem.
- Class Presidency Responsibilities: Many teachers have wondered if they should have a class presidency. Here is a list of responsibilities to see how they could help you.
- President’s Award Requirement:Many of my stakes use a program called The President’s Award which increases the students’ attendance rates dramatically.
- Seminary Spotlight Form #1, #2: Once a week I have a student spotlight another student by them reading clues from the form, and the class has to guess who it is. [He uses a new form for the second term of the year.]
- Classroom Visuals – Here are a dozen or so visuals and posters I have printed and put up in my classroom. They are ideas I refer back to often when teaching.
- Classroom Quotes – Here is a collection of 34 quotes that I often will use when presenting some important concepts about scripture study skills and other seminary related ideas. I’ve often spotlighted one or two in a particular lesson.
- Patterns for Powerful Teaching – Have you ever spent hours preparing a lesson but unsure of where you were going or what the lesson needed to really touch lives? This simple one page handout is the basic form to what a powerful lesson does. It can help clarifiy thoughts and inspire thinking to make a lesson powerful!
Thank John for these files at
http://www.johnbushman.com/contact.html
