{"id":29,"date":"2008-06-12T21:17:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T03:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ldswomenofgod.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2012-03-23T20:47:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T02:47:02","slug":"rs-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/12\/rs-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"RS Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">How many of you really read the lesson before each Sunday comes along?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Come on, let\u2019s be honest here.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>How many of you bring your manuals?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Participate, offer to read something, interrupt with a thought that strikes you, share something personal, fall asleep?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Lessons are lessons and they only tend to be as good as the teacher teaches them.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Some teachers have a natural gift for teaching, other teachers have a natural gift to bring the Spirit into everything they teach, and there are those who don\u2019t, but do the best they can.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>As a student, it is our job to overcome all of those possibilities and get something out of the lesson that is meant just for us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Now, what would the class be like if every single person read the lesson beforehand and were prepared with some thoughts?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Would that blow the teacher away?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Would that bring about an interesting discussion?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Would everyone walk out of the room stimulated and inspired?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I would hope the teacher wouldn\u2019t feel threatened or that she lost control of the class.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">I was reading through a RS magazine\u00a0from 1918 and ran across an article on how to teach.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>This is the first sentence, \u201cThe \u2018lecture system,\u2019 handed down to us from the darkness of the middle ages, is a method of teaching, which, in this age of pedagogical knowledge, teachers are ashamed of; yet, at the same time, most of us, if we but make confession, are only too guilty of falling into this ancient practice because it runs along a line of least resistance.\u201d<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Besides, being an incredibly long run-on sentence with old-fashioned language, they speak truth.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019ve heard teachers in Relief Society refer to their teaching as giving a talk.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>That\u2019s not a good sign.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Lessons are so much better when the teacher provides open discussion on just a few ideas and the students are prepared with thoughts and experiences to share.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many of you really read the lesson before each Sunday comes along?\u00a0\u00a0 Come on, let\u2019s be honest here.\u00a0 How many of you bring your manuals?\u00a0 Participate, offer to read something, interrupt with a thought that strikes you, share something personal, fall asleep? 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