Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
After last week, I thought that the class might be dwindling to an unsustainable level. Even though people keep expressing “interest” many were not showing up or were scheduling other appointments during class time. I was thinking that we might be approaching a time that we would have reassess the need for the class. But yesterday’s class was surprisingly big! We had 9 sisters show up, most of whom were…
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AC expressed a common concern on the LDS Seminary Teacher Facebook Group: “I’m a new teacher this year, not creative at all and need desperate help. I have my two boys in my class and they both tell me I’m boring.” Here’s what I said: Please know that everything I’m about to say is intended to be helpful. Please read it in that context.1) Consider the source. Your own children…
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Most gospel teachers struggle with classroom participation. Sometimes you’ll get a classroom of students who are very active and loud, and other times you may have a classroom of very quiet students. We want students to enjoy each other, but “between the prayers” we want them to talk about the gospel — not Friday night’s game. Following are some ideas to help you increase appropriate discussion in your classroom: Talk…
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After a lesson is complete, you may feel elated or even discouraged. Evaluating your teaching is an important, often neglected, step that can help you improve as a teacher. Evaluating your lessons is the “report” part of the Return and Report pattern taught in the temple. Reporting, by asking questions of yourself, prayerfully consulting the Lord, speaking with another teacher or leader, or blogging experiences, can help you develop Here are…
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In short, yes, it’s okay to stand to sing during an LDS sacrament meeting service. I’m never sure where these weird rumors get started — I blame the Utahns. Congregational Singing Most Church meetings are enhanced by the singing of hymns. Music provides a primary means by which members participate in Church worship services. Congregational singing has a unique and often underused power for unifying members as they worship together….
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Find out what instructions the Church Handbook of Instructions has for the Ward Music Chairperson. https://www.lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/music?lang=eng#14.2.3
The 2015 mutual theme is Embark in the Service of God. Find a ton of great ideas for your Embark activity below: Sailboat themed Embark Decorations for Girls Camp from Amazon Below are several cute Embark themed decoration ideas for girls camp I found on Amazon. These are cheap enough for your tiny girls camp budget, and some of them even have free shipping! If you’ve got Amazon Prime,…
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Notice To: General Authorities; Area Seventies; Stake, Mission, and District Presidents; Bishops and Branch Presidents From: Young Men and Young Women General Presidencies Subject: Mutual Theme for 2015 The Mutual theme for 2015 is “O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might, mind and strength, that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day” (D&C 4:2; emphasis added)….
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I have been struggling with motivation lately. The website has just been something I’ve not been excited to work on lately. This WordPress update is partially complete, but there are a few thousand images and documents to be uploaded. I was hopeful that I could get Jared to help me with it while we were in Austin in June, but that didn’t happen. I had planned to take an entire…
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3 Nephi 1 This morning I didn’t prepare a lesson. A family in our ward’s house burned to the ground the afternoon before this lesson, and not everyone survived the fire. I expected to have to answer some pretty serious questions from students related to the fire, and so I prepared by reading a couple of articles on grief and tragedy; however, it didn’t seem to be as much of…
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Helaman 1-5 Had to combine this day due to snow. We continued with March Madness. Kids shared “what did you learn”s with the class from the reading. On the board I wrote the following words: trolling, bullying, picking, teasing, joshing, joking, criticizing, gossiping, ridiculing, make fun of, judging I opened with a short discussion about what God sounds like (Helaman 5:28-31) and what that teaches us about God. One point…
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Helaman 1-5 Had to combine this day due to snow. We continued with March Madness. Kids shared “what did you learn”s with the class from the reading. On the board I wrote the following words: trolling, bullying, picking, teasing, joshing, joking, criticizing, gossiping, ridiculing, make fun of, judging I opened with a short discussion about what God sounds like (Helaman 5:28-31) and what that teaches us about God. One point…
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