To Complete Assignment: Send Lisanne 2 lesson plans for how to create an engaging study for the missionaries.
Announcements:
- Is anything cool happening in your life? Tell us about it.
- Next week’s weekly training will be the last of the semester- we will be talking about General Conference prep. bring anything you you want involving that to next training
- Lisanne is leaving!!! for vacation from April 3rd until April 13th. Try to have as little blue sheets as possible!
- There is NO CLASS on General Conference Saturday.
- Saturday- Frisbee… Talk to Kevin about it.
Accountability:
How have you used the Manner of Happiness website this week? How has what we learned last week in training changed your studies?
Confessions of Flipped Classroom
Expand learning and understanding of what flipped classrooms are. We may not come up with a solution, but the key is that we are thinking and wanting to make a change.
What are things that we have learned that we don’t like or need to work on as we are trying to flip the classroom:
- Practices not used as learning experiences
- Not simple - simplicity is difficult
- lacking faith in practices
- coaching is hard
- Time management
- Autonomy by the missionaries- desire and tools needed are hard to help them with
- Missionary/Teacher evaluation struggles
- Understanding in depth what we do
- We teach too much
- Lack of effect on PI—PI isn’t changing but the frustration with it is increasing
- Missionaries struggle to be investigators
- We are forced to focus on people which we have learned is tougher than focusing on lessons
- Missionaries don’t study well
- I like what “doesn’t work” or what’s “easy” (the old way)
We haven’t really flipped anything. We only changed the schedule!
It’s time to flip the classroom.
Flipped Classrooms- What are they?
Watch:
YouTube Video- write down any insights you have on what a flipped classroom actually is.
(showing the differences between a traditional and a flipped classroom)
Different levels of learning
Basic knowledge box- has the vocabulary and facts that you are asking of them
we don’t want only that from he missionaries we also want an
Understanding box- practices will com into this box, faith building experiences
Intelligent box- learned what they need to know
When missionaries don’t have basic knowledge then they can’t move on to understanding
What needs to happen for teacher/missionaries in order for everyone to move from he knowledge box to the understanding box.
Teachers need to master the blue book. Missionaries need to know PMG.
Thoughts:
- The video showed how in a flipped classroom the students became agents
- We walk around the classroom because we want to listen to the missionaries, but they should be coming to us to ask
- Not enough preparation
- Communication between teachers/resources/missionaries needs to be better
- Our expectations may be to broad for the missionaries
- Being an audio learner I see other audio learners getting ignored in this situation
- Is knowledge only gained through reading or hearing… isn’t it gained through practice?- it is but it may be more difficult without something else attached to it
- How can we speed up their learning?
- For study to occur desire must be present in the learner and they must be engaged
- PI or TRC is the basis of desire. Sometimes we ignore that because they tell us about it and it doesn’t involve the lesson that way so we say we will get to it.
What are points of desire for the missionaries:
- their personal conversion- personal reason for being there
- TRC and PI
- where there is vision there is desire
- see a need for help
- discovering the doctrine
YouTube Video
What do you notice that he says?
Online lectures. Writing things not the board isn’t helping!
What can we do to have a flipped classroom the way it should be?
We need to engage the missionaries and capitalize on their desires
Pick one fundamental and try something different- 30 minute engaging study. Create it.
Be creative in your thoughts. Anything that you want to try out ask Lisanne before you try it.
Ted Talk ending
What is it going to take to stop doing things as we have always done to stop getting what we have always gotten.
Invitation:
Continue thinking and creating! Don’t forget to write it down!
