This Has Helped Me

I have tried a new way of introducing quotes and concepts into my lesson.  Rather than numbering them and having someone in class read a specific quote at a specific time during the lesson.  I type the quotes and hand them out, if during the lesson they feel impressed to share their information with the rest of the class, wonderful!  If it doesn't get mentioned, well maybe our lesson went another direction and that particular quote was not needed.

This has helped me during prep time, by allowing me to share some of the extra information my studies have uncovered. I find that I rely upon the spirit to direct the topics within the lesson outline.  Also, class members have reported they are listening more closely to the lesson, in order to appropriately share their quotes at the right time. (Betsy)

Bring Your Lesson To Life

When you have a piece of very interesting dialog to introduce to your class... don't just read it out or get someone to read it out, have someone ( or two etc as needed ) prior to class agree to act as though they were that person(s), and in your lesson say.... I think we have ....... with us today, or I can see....... what happened.... what do you think... etc. Then when they speak or act, its as though you had that special visitor in your class.  Bishops are great at this !!!!  Similar to this you say, lets listen to Nephi, and have his words on tape as read by someone else....  A bit of costume or a picture of course is great too. (Paul in Australia)

Sharing An Idea

I am a Gospel Doctrine teacher and I really do enjoy your lessons. I thought I might share an idea with you. It made double the work one week but the class really enjoys it and I think they get more out of the lesson. I started printing out the lesson and adding quotes and other information I would find when I was teaching the Book of Mormon lessons. Then I thought it would be better to print out the lesson a week in advance. That would allow the class to go over the lesson and do some study before the class instead of after the class. Many of the personal questions asked in the manual are very good and the whole class would benefit from each other if they had more time to think about their answers. So one week I did two lessons. Since then they have always had the next weeks lesson to study. I find that they like it and many of them are much better prepared and have shared some very spiritual things that they might not have because they wouldn't have been able to think of it on the spur of the moment. (Diana in Idaho)