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Jennifer Smith
September 27, 2014
By [email protected] (Pam Mueller) In learning about the Great Apostasy, this student started telling us about a Family Home Evening lesson his sister did. Using cups we have in our room, he gave us a visual of just what the apostasy was. you can do a google search and find out how to do this object lesson. I have seen it done with pictures on the cups. Source:: Seminary Moments…
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Jennifer Smith
September 27, 2014
By [email protected] (Pam Mueller) We have 6 new students, so we needed a get to know you activity: I put out various objects and told them to each pick one. After they chose one, I had them come up with how that object was like them. I believe, like art, an object can “speak” to you. So choosing an object, they had to have some connection to it, why else…
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Pam Mueller
September 27, 2014
Spent three days studying Joseph Smith History this week. I wanted them to see they have a lot in common with him. (Fellow seminary teacher, Barb Gardner shared this idea) I put various names of objects on slips of paper and had them pick one out. They…
Pam Mueller
September 27, 2014
I have done this activity before to capture the attention of the students, have them involved and basically giving the lesson. On the board I put a picture of the person we will be studying under the rectangle of paper.Behind the circles are cluesI pic…
Pam Mueller
September 27, 2014
In learning about the Great Apostasy, this student started telling us about a Family Home Evening lesson his sister did. Using cups we have in our room, he gave us a visual of just what the apostasy was.you can do a google search and fin…
Pam Mueller
September 27, 2014
working in small groups to figure out the”Role of a Learner”
I gave them each this handout (from fellow seminary teacher Becky Edwards) and told them take two different colored pens, to go to a quite spot and discuss how to be a “learner”. Then we met back together to share what they learned.
Read these quotes. Mark in one color what actions you’re being invited to take to obtain spiritual learning. Mark in a second color the promised blessings of doing these things.
1. “The very process of formulating a question, raising a hand, asking a question and listening attentively is an expression of faith. This principle of seeking learning by faith invites individualized teaching by the Holy Ghost” (Elder David A. Bednar, Address to Australian Saints, April 2008).
2. “Assure that there is abundant participation because that use of agency by a student authorizes the Holy Ghost to instruct. It also helps the student retain your message. As students verbalize truths, they are confirmed in their souls and strengthen their personal testimonies” (Elder Richard G. Scott, “To Understand and Live Truth,” Feb. 4, 2005).
3. “We are to help students learn to explain, share, and testify of the doctrines and principles of the restored gospel. We are to give them opportunities to do so with each other in class. We are to encourage them to do so outside of class with family and others” (The Teaching Emphasis in the Church Educational System, November 14, 2007).
4. “When you encourage students to raise their hand to respond to a question, they signify to the Holy Spirit their willingness to learn. That use of moral agency will allow the Spirit to motivate and give them more powerful guidance during your time together. Participation allows individuals to experience being led by the Spirit. They learn to recognize and feel what spiritual guidance is. It is through the repeated process of feeling impressions, recording them, and obeying them that one learns to depend on the direction of the Spirit more than on communication through the five senses” (Richard G. Scott, “Helping Others to Be Spiritually Led,” 8/11/1998).
5. “Do you know how to get the most benefit from this time together? Write down the impressions you feel…Spiritual moments in life often come when it seems difficult to record them. Yet that special effort to crystallize in a permanent record sacred impressions of the Holy Ghost is powerfully rewarded. Begin now even if you have to borrow paper and pencil to do it.” (Richard G. Scott, BYU-I Devot., Feb. 24, 2004)
6. 1 Nephi 19:23 – …I did liken all scriptures unto us, that it might be for our profit and learning.
7. D&C 88:122 – Appoint among yourselves a teacher, and let not all be spokesmen at once; but let one speak at a time and let all listen unto his sayings, that when all have spoken that all may be edified of all, and that every man may have an equal privilege.
8. “The person at the pulpit’s most important purpose is to teach by the Spirit. Those in attendance must hear by the Spirit. The best way to hear by the Spirit that I have found is simply to have in your heart a prayer for the person who is speaking. If you will pray for the person who is speaking you will hear things you would not otherwise hear. The Spirit will say things that He might not otherwise say.” (Elder Dunn, quoted by Kelly Haws in Priesthood training mtg)
I Accept God’s Invitation to be an Active Learner this Year in Seminary.
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Jennifer Smith
September 24, 2014
Jennifer Smith
September 24, 2014
As I have talked about in past posts, to learn the Scripture Masteries, it is best to spotlight one scripture a week. BUT you can’t very well scripture chase with only one scripture you have learned. Well the document here (front and back) has all the mnemonics for the D&C. On a “Flexible day” in the Pacing Guide, you may want to go over the first 6 mnemonics and have…
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Jennifer Smith
September 23, 2014
By LDS Scripture Teachings Sections 6,8, and 9 of the Doctrine and Covenants explain how revelation works. I find it worth noting that in the early days of the history of the church that the Lord outlined for the Saints how this delicate communication … Continue reading → Source:: Seminary Teacher – Mike Day
LDS Scripture Teachings
September 23, 2014
Sections 6,8, and 9 of the Doctrine and Covenants explain how revelation works. I find it worth noting that in the early days of the history of the church that the Lord outlined for the Saints how this delicate communication … Continue reading →
Jennifer Smith
September 19, 2014
With Doctrine & Covenants 5 and 17 we learn about the Three Witnesses and the Eight Witnesses. This glue-in is a great time to take a closer look at who these people were. Many critics have pointed out that of the 11 witnesses, 6 of them fell away for at least some time from the church including all of the Three Witnesses. But to me, this makes their witness all…
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Jennifer Smith
September 19, 2014
Have your class imagine that they lived in Joseph Smith’s time and they had the opportunity to ask the Prophet, “What would the Lord have me do?” Have that question written on the board and refer to it. Ask your class if they imagine that some elements of their personal revelation would have similarities to others’ who asked the Prophet the same question. President Joseph Fielding Smith taught that “in…
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