We were asked to teach the course for teacher improvement. It's a 12 week course using "Teaching, No Greater Call" for a manual. But they asked us to teach it in 6 weeks. The first group assigned to come are all teachers of teenagers.
In the first lesson we covered the importance of teaching and learning in God's plan--that teaching has gone on since the pre-existence and from Adam on down. And we taught the importance of loving your students--that we can pray for ways to show Christ-like love as we prepare the lesson, teach in the classroom, and meet our students in everyday life. I know when I prayed for one of my kids when they were being a challenge, I was given an understanding of them. I know the Lord knows their hearts and their potential better than I do.
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You say We. Is it you and Grandpa? I know that I can't take two Algebra lessons in one day (I don't need to anyway) so is it hard to scrunch two lessons together?
Yes, we have to leave some things out and expect them to study on their own during the week. We team teach it.
So is this something new in the church or an area thing? We haven't had teacher development classes at all since 2004. When I was in a stake YW presidency in the 70's, we did teacher development for the ward leaders monthly and used TNGC.
It seems that the manual is still used, and the classes are possibly at the Bishop's discretion? I'm sure it's not something new, just something resurrected. We didn't ask because we knew we'd enjoy doing it.
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