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

[laura owings]

the times when the teaching emphasis/power phrases have worked best for me have been when each student decides for himself which verse means something.  before i turn them loose, i always tell them to pay attention to the Holy Ghost.  sometimes we even review how to recognize when they are being prompted.  then they read, listening and trying to find something that means something to THEM. i have them mark the verses that stand out.   so i think maybe your fortune cookie thing might not have worked because they were given a specific scripture.  for some of them, it might not have meant anything at all, because of where they were in their own lives.  i think the power of the TE is giving the students a chance to interact with the spirit, to have the Holy Ghost become the teacher.  so when we get out of the way and let the two of them decide what matters to them, the effect is powerful.   

Laura 
EMS Dallas


----- Original Message ----
From: Dana Burgess <d_k_burgess at hotmail.com>
To: teachldsseminary at latter-dayvillage.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:48:22 AM
Subject: [Teachldsseminary] CHAT/HELP - Where did I go wrong?


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

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