This is actually something I have done for years. So I was super glad when the new program rolled out with these recommendations. (When the General Board came for training last year they were specific on using these numbers.) I quite literally teach line upon line and I don't throw in extra things to learn. We focus on the music and the words.
This is how I do it. It's quite simple, I make teaching the Gospel the priority. Everything I plan starts with a CFM message and then my next priority is deciding on my 6-8 songs. Then I teach the message using the songs. I flipped my thinking from teaching songs/music to teaching a message using those songs as my MAIN way to teach the message. Then there may be an activity that I think of, or come across, that supports these 2 main goals. As I do this they naturally learn the songs. (You do need to wrap the songs around in some kind of rotation.) Here is my plan for next year: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P76dgx2awsR_YHIg5KfF4UKBtqmLw6mgoApTjnXrGHs/edit?usp=sharing I also don't do all of the verses every time we sing a song. Sometimes it might only be the chorus. Sometimes it might only be verse 2, etc. For example when we sing I Am A Child Of God, we sing all 4 verses and only sing the chorus at the end of the 4th verse. How does singing so many songs teach the Gospel message? Because most, if not all of the songs that day, support one theme when we sing those words I either point at them on my flip charts, or emphasize them when we sing them, emphasize in the very short "recap/aha" at the end of the song, and/or use them as part of a challenge. By the end of the day we have sung 6-8 songs that have supported a message. It's kind of like reading several stories, etc. to teach one thing. In the process you have also taught those stories. The best way to see this is to refer to my lesson plans. On my lesson plans the green is pretty much the only talking that I do. I point to those words/ideas as we sing, and/or emphasize them just with intensity. Then I also use the rest of the tips and tricks on my blog. One of my posts mentions switching gears. If we have a song that I feel like I want to do it more than I had planned then we may drop one of the other songs.
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Here are my tried and true tips/tricks based upon my past experience, CFM, Preach My Gospel, and also using my teaching strategies/philosophies that I also use in my day job.
Most are simple directed listening (Focused Attention) based for easy memorization and then also focusing in on topics for internalization of the Gospel messages. Lot's of my different ideas on a few pages :) Archives
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