Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
I attended SVU‘s Education Conference this weekend. What a strange experience that was! It was part fundraising convention and part spiritual feast. So bizarre. At points it actually seemed like we were at a timeshare sales pitch or an Amway convenction. Other times it was just like BYU’s Education Week, and sometimes even better. I tried to tweet a little about it, but there were only 4-5 people there of…
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Today I am on the beautiful campus of SVU in Buena Vista, Virginia, for their 17th annual education week conference. We are excited to hear Julie B Beck and Marlin K Jensen speak. Find out about the conference at http://SVU.edu/conference
Today was our final day of class. Students cleaned out their cubbies, ate some yummy food, watched some YouTube videos (sorry, kids — still no Strange Brew), and wrote some questions to Stump the Chump. It was a fun laid back day to enjoy our time together. New Book of Mormon Manual I am relieved to be finished with this year but I am still in Seminary mode, I guess. …
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We finished the book of Revelation yesterday, and all I can say is that three weeks is TOO DANG LONG for this content. Ignore the pacing guide and spend an extra week in the epistles. The problem with Revelation is that there isn’t much revealed information to help you answer kids’ really hard questions. You can find multiple theories on every single item within the book, but if you are…
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This week we are wrapping up the epistles prior to our 3 week study of Revelation. We got a little nerdy this week…. 2 Peter 1-3 For this class, I had students open up their scriptures to 1 Peter 1:2-10 and write a mathematical equation for the verses. Theirs was even better than mine — somehow I had ignored the word multiplied. Turned out pretty well. As a group we…
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Titus I can’t find any notes on this …. How on earth am I still in this calling. Philemon Philemon didn’t seem to have anything of particular value doctrine-wise, so I gave the kids a little background on it and we did scripture mastery.
James 1-2 I decided to split James into two themes: on the first day, I focused on the scripture masteries, and on the second, we did a review type lesson. This worked pretty well. We spent a few minutes doing our scripture sort. Then I gave an introduction to James, based on at least some of the reading. I kept feeling that I needed to leave out an account of his…
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We covered the book of Hebrews in 4 lessons, all in one week. It felt fast, and it was. Hebrews 1-2 I am trying to do better with scripture mastery, and so I am working on getting the kids to learn the references and key phrases. Today I put up the four references from Corinithians on the board and asked the kids for the topics they address. I asked “How…
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I’ve been to several Seminary classes to observe, but Tuesday was the first time someone has come to watch me! Gah! My friend, DeAnn, has been teaching Seminary for many years. She called late Monday evening to ask if she could come over and watch our class. It was fine with me, but my class does not operate like hers. When Salt Lake imagines what Seminary looks like, DeAnn’s…
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Today another Seminary teacher came to observe my classroom (more on that later), and she mentioned something that the kids had talked about in class yesterday: the scripture mastery passages have changed! I decided to take a quick look this afternoon before the kids get home to see what changes have been made. There are 8 changes to the Book of Mormon scripture mastery list as best I can tell….
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Today another Seminary teacher came to observe my classroom (more on that later), and she mentioned something that the kids had talked about in class yesterday: the scripture mastery passages have changed! I decided to take a quick look this afternoon before the kids get home to see what changes have been made. There are 8 changes to the Book of Mormon scripture mastery list as best I can tell….
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1 Timothy 1-6 This lesson was easy enough to prepare once I figured out what to do. There were several tiny, mini lessons in this text. I could have pulled one out and made a full lesson on one, but none of them were really long enough to spend a full lesson on, and I did feel like different topics would appeal to different students. I needed a method to…
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