Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
By Sharon Prescott Haynie Sharon Prescott Haynie : Yesterday I contacted the help desk on the S&I website about when we are to give the Learning Assessment. He said that it should be given in the first two weeks of December so those that need to retake it will have time before the end of the semester. 3 (1 hour ago) Dorianne Quinton Varty : I would think the timing…
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By Steven Kami Palmer Steven Kami Palmer: Has anyone done any successful conference challenges so far? (39 minutes ago) Source:: LDS Seminary Teacher Group
By Connie Francis Low Connie Francis Low: I need suggestions of what helped in your classroom when you have students that just put their heads down and sleep all the time. I have two that won’t get up for games, or other activities, won’t read or participate or write on assignments, and even put their heads down during movies. (19 minutes ago) Jenny Smith: Pull them aside and express your…
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By Tom Fuhriman Tom Fuhriman: Anyone have any good scripture mastery games? I have a small class of 10 students. 4 (12 hours ago) Brie Stockwell: Check mormonshare. I have 14 kids. Mine like fruit basket. www.mormonshare.com/lds-seminary/scripture-mastery-game/fruit-basket-upset (12 hours ago) 5 Megan Ryan Anguiano: We played musical chairs. The person who doesn’t get a chair has to write/say at least 3 words to whatever scripture mastery we are studying. The…
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By Scott Knecht We cannot learn new things unless we can connect them to something we already know. That’s why we use metaphors and similes and analogies in our speaking. If someone is trying to get you to eat frog legs and you have no idea if you will like them or not because you don’t know the taste or texture and have never eaten them, the person says “Don’t…
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By Coleen Machiel Castro Coleen Machiel Castro: So I told my class I would get every student an extra large candy bar of their choice for each one who memorized First Vision SM. The response: I can buy my own candy bar. UGH! We will do it. Just have to refocus. 3 (1 hour ago) Sylvia Lee Kunz: First one to do it Movie ticket (1 hour ago) Lee Karyn…
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By Tara Brannelly Hale Tara Brannelly Hale: Trying something new for #scripturemastery tomorrow. I preassigned students to teach 4 different verses (1 to each of the student). We will have station for each SM. The assigned students will teach it and then they will have the group play the SM wave game: The group sits in a circle. One student starts “the wave” but raising up out of his/her seat…
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By Khipi Parker Khipi Parker : Hello! I’m new to the group and newly called as a Seminary teacher. I have a great group of kids and am excited about my new calling. Can’t wait to see what awesome ideas come from this group. Any suggestions/comments/recommended resources for a new teacher? (2 hours ago) Irene Palmer : si.lds.org has great training videos for new teachers (6 minutes ago) Click this…
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By Scott Knecht For a number of years I worked off and on in the construction industry, mostly as a plasterer. Construction work is satisfying in a different way than teaching. At the end of the day you, and everyone else, can see very specifically what you accomplished. In teaching it may take years, literally, before you really know how things turned out. It seems almost impossible to tell the…
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By Emma Pearson Emma Pearson : I thought I had my lesson all planned out for Monday! The spirit had other ideas…… here’s to a sunday morning of redoing the lesson :) 5 (9 hours ago) Andrea Bailey Williams : Been there, just follow the spirit. (7 hours ago) Brie Stockwell : Good for you!!! (6 hours ago) Ginny Gumprecht : That happened to me a lot! Once at 3…
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By Scott Knecht Teachers like students to come to class on time. We value their presence when the class starts. We mark them tardy when they enter late and we remind them of the need to be in their seats and ready to go when the class begins. We say “we have lots to cover today and we need to get going.” (Just FYI – “cover” is not a very…
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By Linda Davenport Monroe Linda Davenport Monroe : #DandC27 #ArmorOfGod Modern Day Armor of God (idea from September 2014 New Era) with a bullet proof vest and baton. I used Nerf gun darts (devil’s darts) and wrote on them vices Satan uses to keep us from reaching our goal of Eternal Life. I threw the devil darts out at various students and they read what was written on the darts;…
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