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…
Evaluating A Gospel Lesson – 10 Questions to Ask
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…
Can we stand to sing during sacrament meeting?
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…
Ward Music Chairperson – Handbook Information
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
It’s been a while…
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…
3 Nephi 1-10
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…
Helaman 1-16
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,…
Alma 32-58
Believe it or not, I can totally sum up the rest of Alma in one blog post. Since last I posted we’ve had Seminary less than 10 times. Last week we met only once due to another snowstorm and another…
Alma 32 plus disaster recovery
Well. This was not the best Seminary lesson. I was so excited, too. I have to say that I’m not quite sure what went wrong. I have two new students, one of whom is testing me, another student who is…
Alma 31
Today’s lesson went well despite a minor snafu — I nearly slept in! I woke up rested, which as all you Seminary teachers know is an unusual and unfamiliar state in your life during winter. It took a few moments…