Adult Classes
Resources for adult classes, including lessons and teaching tips.
Collaborating With Your Music Director to Enhance the Lesson  Music is a powerful teaching tool; how to tie its meaning in to your lesson more in order to make your lesson more meaningful. Cultivating Kindness in Adult Classes  Is someone missing from your class-or about to be missing-because she feels alone or hurt? First in a series on the importance of love and kindness. Encouraging Adults to Do Their Homework  How do you coax your busy adult students to read their scriptures and manuals before coming to class? Take a tip from Seminary! FARMS [offsite link] Intellectuals in your class? FARMS is the Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts at BYU. They have done solid research into the scriptures and the free section of their site has fascinating background information. $$ Getting Adults to Participate in Discussions  You ask a question and look around the room hopefully. No one raises a hand. You know that a good lesson should be a discussion, but if no one will help out, are you doomed to lecture? Gospel Link [offsite link] This page from Deseret Books offers thoughts on current Gospel Doctrine lessons. Includes quotes from leaders and noted LDS writers. LDSTeach [offsite link] An extensive site on home teaching and visiting teaching. Includes problem resolutions, New Era Posters combined with the messages, tips for lessons, and ideas for conferences. Likening the Scriptures  Help your students learn to liken the scriptures unto themselves in order to make them more meaningful. New and Experienced Members in the Same Class  If you live in a ward with many new converts, how do you meet their needs during a lesson without boring the experienced members? Non-member Guests in Adult Classes  Your lesson is prepared and it’s on a challenging topic. The material assumes a certain amount of background knowledge….and then a student introduces a non-member guest. Now what? Priesthood 
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Simplifying Callings  In General Conference, we were counseled to simplify our callings. Tips for following this counsel. Teaching Touchy Topics  Someone in your class isn´t going to like what your lesson is about. How do you avoid hurt feelings or arguments? The Gospel Doctrine Class [offsite link] Excellent supplemental material including quotes from President Hinckley to assist you in preparing each Gospel Doctrine lesson. You can also find out about current reading assignments here. The James E. Neumann Institute [offsite link] A detailed page for teaching Gospel Doctrine. There is an extensive one-page handout for each lesson with an explanation as to how to use the handout to guide the lesson. Outstanding resource, especially for new teachers. The Stranger Among Us  Newcomers? Nonmembers? Reactivated members? Make them feel at home the very first day. When Adults Won't Behave  You can´t send them to their parents. How do you get adults to do what you want them to do while you teach? Links marked with the [offsite link] designation point to websites not associated with BellaOnline.com. BellaOnline.com is not responsible for the material found there.
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