[Teachldsseminary] CHAT: Helping students learn to truly study the scriptures

[Wendy]

We had the same kind of lesson a few weeks ago. We decided that it would be
a good idea for the kids to come up with the 'class' statements. Soooooo...I
don't have any for you yet. :o)

Wendy
EMS Brisbane Australia

On 10/15/06, Kim <kim at restuccias.com> wrote:
>
> We had a wonderful inservice meeting last week in which we saw a video of
> a
> seminary teacher at work with her students.  She was absolutely
> inspirational in the way she used the teaching emphasis with the students
> and gave them guidelines for how we study the scriptures.  One of the
> great
> things she did was to have a list of "statement starters" to help the kids
> realize that they were being influenced by the Spirit as they read and to
> help stimulate discussion about the scriptures within class.  I LOVE this
> idea and am trying to come up with my own list of such statements based on
> the teaching emphasis, but being a first year seminary teacher and
> learning
> myself what it means to truly study the scriptures, I'm finding my
> attempts
> to be rather pathetic.  The ideas I have had, so show you examples of what
> I'm looking for are:
>
> I can relate to this scripture because..... (encourages personal
> application)
>
> This reminds me of this other scripture...... (making connections between
> different scriptures helps increase understanding of them)
>
> I recognize this!  It's the principle/doctrine of.... (identifying
> principles and doctrines)
>
>
>
> Does anyone else have ideas I could add to this list?
>
> Kim
> Plainfield, IL
>
>
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