Reverence lesson

I have decided to try blogging again. 

TRY. 

I certainly have enough going on.

I was in charge of teaching combined Young Women's today. I approached with a couple of goals in mind:  

1. We need to gear up for the new youth curriculum for 2013

2. Setting a standard for our class room that invites the spirit for the new curriculum.

3. Sneak in there a little lecture about how being REVERENT during class 

*sheesh*

It basically went down like this:

  

Identify what they want out of class/what is a good class

(treats, cute hangouts - not just a piece of paper, object lessons, feel the spirit, discussion, personal stories)

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The distractions: talking over someone, not being prepared, a 'boring lesson' (whatever that means), doing a lot of out loud reading

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     Using this picture as our guide

How can they be like these 'students' of the savior :

(attentive, wants to be there, respectful, REVERENT)

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     How can we/I as a teacher -- teach more like the savior

(be prepared, be among the group, give personal examples, object lessons)

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THE STANDARD for our YW class.

Respectful

Attentive

Reverent

A participate

Positive attitude

The plan is to use the picture + their goals/standard in a wall hanging to remind them of what we want our class time to be like. 

        And because everything is better with chocolate wrapped in cellophane...

"RIESENs to be reverent"