[Teachldsseminary] Teach re:Tabernacle models and other resources

[Peter & Kerryn Hugo]

What a wonderful and courageous and absolutely correct posting!!! I agree 
that we need to make things interesting and relevant for our youth, and can 
do so without the entertainment factor.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MariLou Conner" <yatahay at gmail.com>
To: <teachldsseminary at latter-dayvillage.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 1:57 PM
Subject: [Teachldsseminary] Teach re:Tabernacle models and other resources


> I've been teaching Seminary for a few years now and I hope I don't annoy
> anyone out there by giving this caution:  Don't use unapproved materials.
> In fact, if you want to get technical, when you use non-LDS/CES approved
> materials you are in violation of your volunteer agreement contract.  When 
> I
> first saw the links for models of the tabernacle available online, red 
> flags
> went up.  I actually wondered to myself how long before I would read posts
> from people recommending links to books and videos describing/explaining 
> the
> tabernacle.  I didn't have to read for long.
>
> As long as I'm on my soapbox, may I add this:  You don't need to be an 
> early
> morning talk show host for your students.  You don't need to entertain 
> them,
> sensationalize things for them (the O.T. does a good job of that all by
> itself!), or spoon-feed them.  You don't need props, or media 
> presentations,
> etc.  All you really have to do is be a facilitator to help prepare the
> hearts and minds of your students for the witness of the Holy Ghost.  Let
> him do the teaching.  Read the scriptures with them and to them.  Help 
> them
> to ponder and think about those things.  Share the words of the prophets 
> and
> your heartfelt testimony with them.  Sound boring?  Maybe....  It sounds
> easy in a way, but it takes faith--especially in yourself.  I'm in my 9th
> year of teaching and I still struggle with it.
>
> I have found many valuable things on this list, but there is often a lot 
> to
> have to slog through too.  Slog wisely! :)  Okay.  I'm done.
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