Teacher Correlation Meeting

[Anonymous]

Our first meeting was today, and it was very good. Great contributions from the attendees.

[Anonymous]

Just FYI, the manual for Teaching in the Savior’s Way is now part of the Gospel Library app and includes links to resources. The video resources are here (I sometimes don’t find the church’s video resources for a particular subject easy to find): https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/teaching-in-the-saviors-way?lang=eng” class=”bbcode_url”>https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/teaching-in-the-saviors-way?lang=eng I think Elder Holland does a great job of explaining what they are looking for in “Introduction to Teacher Council Meetings” video.

[Anonymous]

So, what are we saying about these new teacher councils? Ever since the Gospel Doctrine Manual forbade bringing in outside material, I have found Sunday School to be my least liked hour of the block. I used to substitute teach the class not infrequently, and I tried to bring the subject matter down to things going on in our lives. I would try to bring current equivalents into lessons about things that happened in the scriptures. We had some lively discussions. Then it seemed like a combination of the correlation program, teacher instruction classes and instructions in front of the lesson manual all worked in the direction of going over the same old stuff in the same old way.

Fortunately, I have a busybody-type calling in the ward right now and can spend second hour running around looking official instead of attending GD. Still, I find myself watching the clock in class distressingly often. There is one teacher on the rotation that mixes it up pretty well, but I feel almost subversive in my enjoyment of his lessons. And will he last?

So the comments here sound promising. I especially like what SilentDawning proposes. I hope we go in that direction.

[Anonymous]

Willhewonder wrote:

Ever since the Gospel Doctrine Manual forbade bringing in outside material

I have not taught the GD class (that “GD” could be interpreted in more ways than one ), but I have often taught priesthood lessons. I don’t think I have ever read (nor am I going to go look) this “don’t bring in outside sources”. I only hear about it on blogs. I have not taught a single lesson out of the manual for over 2 years now. Nobody has ever said anything (other than “great lesson”). But then again – I don’t live near the mountain west and at this point there are no hard-line TBM’s in my quorum. There are TBM’s, but not hard-liners.

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