[Teachldsseminary] CHAT/HELP - Where did I go wrong?

[Dana Burgess]

Oh wise and wonderful vetran teachers - help me!? I decided to try to 
incorporate more teaching emphasis/power questions into my lessons. With 
many butterflies I headed to class today and it was not good. I had gone 
through section 29 block by block and put the verses and a question on a 
small piece of paper. Then I baked the paper into fortune cookies. When I 
got to class I wrote on the board 'I think this scripture is teaching us 
...' I let the kids pick a cookie and gave them 10 minutes to eat and read 
the scripture. I told them to think about the question in their cookie and 
the statement on the board as they read. Then I had each of them read their 
scripture to the class and either answer the power question or the cookie 
question or give us other impressions they might have. It was such a dud. 
The kids just basically reread the scripture to answer the question. I tried 
asking more indepth questions based on their answers (how do you feel about 
that?, Why do you think...?, etc) and also tried to get the rest of the 
class involved in some discussion but it really didn't work. I don't think 
I'm getting how to use these teaching tools. Can someone tell me where I 
went wrong and maybe how to improve with these tools. I think they are 
great, I just don't know how to use them. Don't worry about hurting my 
feelings - be brutal! I want to learn. By the way, I teach early morning 
grade 12.
Dana

_________________________________________________________________
Buy, Load, Play. The new Sympatico / MSN Music Store works seamlessly with 
Windows Media Player. Just Click PLAY. 
http://musicstore.sympatico.msn.ca/content/viewer.aspx?cid=SMS_Sept192006