Teaching No Greater Call Part B: Lesson 19

Helping Others Live What They Learn

I am filled with a love towards my class.  They enlighten me and teach me and add so much each Sunday to the lessons.  I hope that I can do everything in my power as a teacher to make all class members feel comfortable and invited and help the spirit to inspire those that are present.

The lesson this week was so uplifting - helping others (and ourselves) live what they learn.  We had some amazing discussion about the process of this.  The lesson link to this lesson on lds.org is HERE. I thought this lesson could not have gone better thanks to the spirit that was present and class member participation.

I started by writing on board 3 columns “understand, testimony, & go and do” and title “Live what you learn.”

Intro

• Bring a mirror and read James 1:22-25.  Talk about mirror.  What does it mean to be a doer/hearer of the word? 
• What does “law of liberty” mean? two contradictory terms—“law” and “liberty” - Display pictures of Christ.
• As a teacher, what are some ways we can help our students become doers and not hearers only?

The rest of the lesson was divided into 3 separate parts. During each discussion, I wrote the ideas from each discussion under each column on the board.

Ensure that learners understand the principles you teach

• What are some ways that we can help learners better understand gospel principles?

Help others learn by the spirit

• When students gain a testimony of principles taught in a lesson, they are more willing to live these principles.  Has this ever happened to you?
• What are some ways that we can invite the spirit to be present in our lesson as we teach?

Encourage learners to “go and do...likewise”

• Parable of the Good Samaritan.  Open up and read Luke 10:25-29. You can watch the bible videos clip, read the verses or have someone summarize. Then read 10:37.
•  Luke 10:37 says “Go, and do thou likewise.”  How can we encourage our students to take what they learn and “go and do thou likewise?” What does that look like?
• What are some examples of invitations we can ask of our learners?  
• How can extending invitations to students to apply the principles they learn in their own life be the most successful? (follow up on invitations, plan invitations ahead of time, giving ideas for application of principle in own life, be specific in invitation)