This was a weekend of great teaching reminders for me, and a time for reflection. On Friday we had our monthly professional development meeting at the school where I work and then of course Conference was fantastic! I Here are some of the highlights - these philosophies are what drive my teaching style and my lesson planning :
Focusing in on depth of knowledge teaching. This is learning at a more engaged and higher level. In a nutshell, not just memorizing for recall and defining - rote repetition and memorization are not the focus. The question we want to know is can they feel it, and can they express it? It's about growing your capacity. To grow your capacity you need an engaged environment where it can thrive. Really engaging lessons, with best teaching practices, that live in depth of knowledge will help the children grow their capacity. Then the memorization and fact recall will just happen naturally, without that being the object of your lessons. This whole conference, including last week's meeting, is also like this. Helping the children of this generation grow their capacities. Can they feel The Spirit, can they feel the burning of a testimony, can they feel the fire of the covenant and the excitement of these latter days? In turn can they express it? Can they share it? Can they live it? I don't have years and years to do this. I have 20 precious minutes each week to help them help themselves and their families. I hope that by the time they end the year next year they will be able to:
My "engaged" lessons will continue as they have in the past - following counsel from The General Primary Board to sing, sing sing - let the music do the teaching. I will have:
(For those who don't know, I get to teach all 900+ children in my school social and emotional learning skills. The children range in age from Kindergarten - 8th grade. I get to teach 1st - 5th graders every week and Kinder every other week and 6th - 8th grade once a month. I teach 26 classes each week.)
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Beth
12/28/2019 07:36:58 am
Thank you for sharing! This was all so helpful for me, very inspiring and getting me more excited to teach singing time. Thank you!
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