attending from our stake: Gormans, Hagelstein, Manchester, Garcia, Hardin, Freckleton, Donat and Christensen
Thanks to Bro and Sis Gorman and Sis Hagelstein for your help with the devotional!
"Isaiah Tent"-Sis Peterson, supervisor from north stake developed 12 mini lesson or readiness activities to help students through Isaiah. The plan is to use one each day for 12 days as you study Isaiah at the beginning of each class to last no more than 5-7 mins.
Sis Schoen, our S&I secretary-students that are attending your class but not on your class roll need to be reported to her via email schoenjw@ldschurch.org and include the following information: member or non-member, full name, Date of Birth. This needs to be done in a timely manner. Beginning this year, we will have 2 terms or semesters rather than one year , so reports must by completed in Dec and May. Keep up with administrative duties and use Sis Christensen for help and questions.
Bro Facer--Scripture mastery is not an optional part of Seminary; it is an integral part. It's in the curriculum and should be "taught" as it appears in the curriculum. Log in to si.lds.org and watch this demostration: hhttp://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1140808662001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAmBrDwtE~,_58lK-P1xvLkXpgd0Cq-I6EyD7v2x0xy&bctid=2279789980001 of teaching Moroni 7:41. --it's the 3rd video with the picture of the boy. Watch all 4 for better understanding. Don't shy away from the standard of scripture mastery; find ways to adapt and make it work in your class and ask for help! Encourage students to use scripture mastery tools/games from the seminary.lds.org site or scripturemastery.lds.org. Students need to fulfill their role in scripture mastery/learning but they must first be trained or taught by their teacher how to do so. See this document for suggestions for the four areas of SM focus.
Bro Ashcroft--DSS or Daily Scripture Study. Our Seminary classrooms should model what good personal daily scripture study looks like. The teacher needs to model how to love and use the scriptures both in body language and in words. Take away impediments students might have to be successful in daily scipture study outside of the Seminary class. There are 4 duties teachers have in daily scripture study program of Seminary:
1. Consistently teach the doctrines and principles.
2. Encourage daily scripture reading.
3. Use accounting system and measurement of DSS.
4. Give students opportunities to share what they learn or question in their DSS.
See these quotes from our leaders on DSS:
As a region, we want to standardize the way we report or DSS. So the following form was developed. Monthly personal Scripture Study reporting
It was discussed that scripture study is a personal thing, so we want the students to have access to their reporting privately and daily. It needs to be part of their daily Seminary routine.
Some thoughts I've had from my teaching experience and as our understanding of the assignment and reality of what has been happening for the past 2 years:
What about providing 2-5 mins at the beginning of each class period where students know they are going to complete this form in their journals (I bought composition books for each student when they were on sale before school started at Walmart) as well as write down the reference of what they read, what doctrines and principles they found when they were reading, and what questions they have. For those who did not read on their own, that time would be for their personal reading. If they never see what it's like to read every day and have that experience, they will not be able to build testimonies of DSS. The quote by Elder Oaks about the few things that would have a more powerful, long-range effect. . . .makes me wonder if we need to provide that time for those not choosing to take it on their own until they gain a testimony? For those who are reading, thinking about and writing about what they read will help "prime the pump" before you begin classroom discussion. The Brethren have also stressed the importance of keeping a scripture journal and I found we always had plenty of pages in a composition book for glue-ins, writing, and scripture tracking. I like the journals so they had a place where everything was kept--scripture mastery list, basic doctrine list, and now weekly DSS accounting. We will discuss this at our Aug trainings.
Bro Ashcroft then demonstrated how to get to the online resources in si.lds.org .
Teacher Presentation; GTL section 5 is devoted to the HOW of teaching. The analogy is that the teacher presentation (the times when the teacher must talk) is the string that holds all the pearls of great price (techniques and methods the teacher uses to bring learners into lesson). The point is, the string alone is not very attractive. . . We had 10 booths that participants rotated through for 5 mins each to learn a bit more about the following methods:
stories
Read scritpures together as a class
Questions
Class Discussion
Small groups discussion and assignments--by our very own Sis Hagelstein!
writing exercises
chalkboard/whiteboard--by our very own Bro Donat!
Objects and pictures
AV/muti-media--by Sis Christensen
Music
If you missed the meeting, please study section 5 in GTL.
Thanks to Bro and Sis Gorman and Sis Hagelstein for your help with the devotional!
"Isaiah Tent"-Sis Peterson, supervisor from north stake developed 12 mini lesson or readiness activities to help students through Isaiah. The plan is to use one each day for 12 days as you study Isaiah at the beginning of each class to last no more than 5-7 mins.
Sis Schoen, our S&I secretary-students that are attending your class but not on your class roll need to be reported to her via email schoenjw@ldschurch.org and include the following information: member or non-member, full name, Date of Birth. This needs to be done in a timely manner. Beginning this year, we will have 2 terms or semesters rather than one year , so reports must by completed in Dec and May. Keep up with administrative duties and use Sis Christensen for help and questions.
Bro Facer--Scripture mastery is not an optional part of Seminary; it is an integral part. It's in the curriculum and should be "taught" as it appears in the curriculum. Log in to si.lds.org and watch this demostration: hhttp://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1140808662001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAmBrDwtE~,_58lK-P1xvLkXpgd0Cq-I6EyD7v2x0xy&bctid=2279789980001 of teaching Moroni 7:41. --it's the 3rd video with the picture of the boy. Watch all 4 for better understanding. Don't shy away from the standard of scripture mastery; find ways to adapt and make it work in your class and ask for help! Encourage students to use scripture mastery tools/games from the seminary.lds.org site or scripturemastery.lds.org. Students need to fulfill their role in scripture mastery/learning but they must first be trained or taught by their teacher how to do so. See this document for suggestions for the four areas of SM focus.
Bro Ashcroft--DSS or Daily Scripture Study. Our Seminary classrooms should model what good personal daily scripture study looks like. The teacher needs to model how to love and use the scriptures both in body language and in words. Take away impediments students might have to be successful in daily scipture study outside of the Seminary class. There are 4 duties teachers have in daily scripture study program of Seminary:
1. Consistently teach the doctrines and principles.
2. Encourage daily scripture reading.
3. Use accounting system and measurement of DSS.
4. Give students opportunities to share what they learn or question in their DSS.
See these quotes from our leaders on DSS:
It was discussed that scripture study is a personal thing, so we want the students to have access to their reporting privately and daily. It needs to be part of their daily Seminary routine.
Some thoughts I've had from my teaching experience and as our understanding of the assignment and reality of what has been happening for the past 2 years:
What about providing 2-5 mins at the beginning of each class period where students know they are going to complete this form in their journals (I bought composition books for each student when they were on sale before school started at Walmart) as well as write down the reference of what they read, what doctrines and principles they found when they were reading, and what questions they have. For those who did not read on their own, that time would be for their personal reading. If they never see what it's like to read every day and have that experience, they will not be able to build testimonies of DSS. The quote by Elder Oaks about the few things that would have a more powerful, long-range effect. . . .makes me wonder if we need to provide that time for those not choosing to take it on their own until they gain a testimony? For those who are reading, thinking about and writing about what they read will help "prime the pump" before you begin classroom discussion. The Brethren have also stressed the importance of keeping a scripture journal and I found we always had plenty of pages in a composition book for glue-ins, writing, and scripture tracking. I like the journals so they had a place where everything was kept--scripture mastery list, basic doctrine list, and now weekly DSS accounting. We will discuss this at our Aug trainings.
Bro Ashcroft then demonstrated how to get to the online resources in si.lds.org .
Teacher Presentation; GTL section 5 is devoted to the HOW of teaching. The analogy is that the teacher presentation (the times when the teacher must talk) is the string that holds all the pearls of great price (techniques and methods the teacher uses to bring learners into lesson). The point is, the string alone is not very attractive. . . We had 10 booths that participants rotated through for 5 mins each to learn a bit more about the following methods:
stories
Read scritpures together as a class
Questions
Class Discussion
Small groups discussion and assignments--by our very own Sis Hagelstein!
writing exercises
chalkboard/whiteboard--by our very own Bro Donat!
Objects and pictures
AV/muti-media--by Sis Christensen
Music
If you missed the meeting, please study section 5 in GTL.
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