February 12, 2015- Revelation Through Prayer Through The Lens of a Flipped Classroom

Weekly Training Meeting

February 12, 2015

To Complete Assignment: Send Lisanne a lesson plan of revelation through prayer with an hour of practices after going through the activities in the training. 

Announcements:

• Be sure that your work scheduler is accurate, especially with prep time! If you have signed up for 30 minutes then you need to be ON TIME.
• Monday is Presidents Day! For BYU Students Tuesday is Monday
• VC needs some help- ANYONE who wants to come help can look at the google doc sign up sent out in an email… look for it! 

Define or Give an Example of:

Early

Often

Everything Possible

Early:

• Before expected
• as soon as someone is aware
• infancy
• soon
• Right after onset 
• In the beginning
• Morning
• Day break
• Towards the beginning
• Temprano
• Pronto
• Before late and on time
• Chronologically 
• Occurring at a time

Often:

• Frequently
• A lot 
• Repetitively
• Many times
• Ususally
• More than average
• M
• Common
• Regularly
• 4-5 times a week
• Naturally
• Majority
• Might

Everything Possible:

• Strength
• Use all resources 
• Consider all routes
• No limits
• Faith, Confidence, Hope
• Consistent, near perfect performance
• The full capability of someone in their situation (and then add God)

Look Here:

Blue Book- Revelation Through Prayer- objective and explain portion

Look at the words that everyone wrote in the context of this fundamental

Thoughts:

• Early- we invite others early so that they can start building that relationship with god
• as soon as someone is aware
• before the need arrives- then they have the resource to use because it’s already been taught
• naturally- something becomes natural when you do it often, prayer done often becomes natural
• if we are doing things early and often then prayer should be done soon within a lesson
• it prepares them to keep the commandments
• what can missionaries do when they aren’t with the investigator to constantly remind them
• why do we want it to be early, so that it becomes habitual

Have you heard of a flipped classroom?

Majority of the studying will be done outside of the class, inside of class is the application

With new online and iPad things the MTC is really wanting to try a flipped classroom approach

Zone 5 has already been doing it for about a month

It will SOON begin to be done area wide

New Schedules will be coming out to each zone

Day shift are practice shifts and night shift is study shift

Zone 5 what do you think so far?

• we are surprised at how much the missionaries understand about the fundamental before they apply it
• There is usually something they didn’t get from their studies that you need to adjust for, so we many have to start out with a very simple practice and then see where they’re at
• If they need to know it for the next day, they retain the information better
• practices need to be seen as learning/revelation experiences 

Learning Pyramid - we are trying to take higher retention rate things and have those be a time when the teacher is there

Engage->Study->Gauge Understanding->Practice->Follow up

first two- night, second two- day

we expect the missionaries to practice between 60-70 minutes

Activity:

Read through every word on the 4 pages in the fundamental

• Highlight items that stick out to you differently
• Mark every activity you haven’t done
• Mark every video that you don’t know immediately what it is

Consider and Create: How can we use these pages to create epic studies and practices for the missionaries 

Object: Understand how to create effective studies and practices for a flipped classroom

This will begin within the next few weeks. Look out for an email and more information about when your zone will start.

Keep thinking in flipped classroom mode!

Is there anything you can tell right now that you need in terms of training?

• when there are bigger districts it’s harder to manage everyone.. with and without a resource. 
• How can we structure practices that build on each other
• Setting up effective practices
• Engaging and Gauging
• If you are helping studies, how do you help that move towards practices
• How can 1 resource help multiple districts in all of their study time
• How does a teacher prep a class for a flipped classroom
• Training on how to help older missionaries do things on their own
  How do we make practices a learning activity

If you have any more questions, email, text, call Lissy as soon as they come up!

This is a learning experience for ALL of us!! Help out with your questions.

February 5, 2015- Pamphlets to the MAX!!

Weekly Training Meeting

February 5, 2015

To Complete: Read through ALL of the pamphlets. Think of 5 new/creative ways to use the pamphlets then practice 2 of them with your ZC. Send Lisanne an email about your experience. 

Announcements: 

You can shake hands again! But keep hands clean!

Hosts aren’t taking missionaries all the way to classrooms, if there is something free in the zone then please go down and see if there are any missionaries that are lost in 18M then direct them to their classrooms

Look out for the email about west campus mock classrooms and events coming up

Pamphlets!!! Take care of this pack of pamphlets.. they are your very own to treasure and use to do practices/demos.

Class Thoughts:

How do we use pamphlet now? As teachers? As missionaries? Past and Present. 

• Hair protection
• Pictures
• I Don’t :(
• Glossary
• Back side for return dates
• Questions in back 
• As review or prep
• Missionary-pass along cards
• Warn them about what church would be like
• Missionaries 1st demo
• When I don’t know how to explain something
• Reminder of commitments
• Baptism date
• Pass along cards
• What pamphlets?
• To prep for practices and in demos
• Used to help simplify complicated mormon lingo
• For prayer teaching
• As a missionary… I didn’t
• OCM loved using pamphlets!
• Draw parallels
• Teach with pictures
• used definitions while teaching
• Invite inv. to read before coming back
• Have my missionaries study out of them to prepare to teach atonement and other principles
• Teacher people to pray
• In study occasionally
• Lessons in Chapter 3

Class 2

• Scripture study section
• Remind investigator of invitation
• USe them to teach doctrine
• Have investigators/missionaries look for the Atonement in every principle
• I don’t, but I want to 
• To level our kitchen table
• Using the Pictures as teaching tool
• As a visual
• For something the investigator can keen and study from
• Pray to know, how to pray box
• Church attendance (what to expect)
• Pamphlet tower
• Collect all 6!
• “Homework” of sorts for investigators 
• Additional Study
• Way of leaving contact info/invitation to learn more
• Placed in picture frame
• Use them to teach doctrine
• As a missionary… we used them a LOT it was our main source of teaching towards the end for our whole mission

• used the pictures as a way to diagnose 
• use pictures to help them make connections
• used to explain 
• used to define words

• When I remember- use to teach doctrine, how to pray, church attendance
• Left them behind as a commitment
• In demonstrations
• Tool for contacting
• Read before we come
• Teach to pray 
• Talk about church
• Definition lists to help know how to explain
• To practice asking questions
• No doctrine in their own words just pamphlet and questions

Let’s EXPLORE!

Think of anything and everything you could use these pamphlets for.. take 25 minutes read through the pamphlets and write ANY creative way that you can use pamphlets in the classroom to get us to awesome.

List 1:

• Use it as a ‘pacing’ tool to help missionaries understand how to ‘get through the whole lesson in one visit’
• Use in demoing a principle so they focus on what you want them to focus on and not “oh my gosh I’m gonna use that scripture every day”
• Use the pamphlets to teach investigators/missionaries how to study, read, look up key words, look up supporting scriptures, write thoughts about topic
• Establish expectation that missionaries use them in PI
• Help missionaries to get the central message (simplicity and power)

• Largest amount- bolded section with paragraph
• Medium Amount- Use little boxes as an overview of principles and also as a way to check understanding…
• Smallest Amount- Bold message at the bottom

• Teach the scriptural stories and parables shown in the pictures
• Quicker study tool for helping missionaries to understand what the lessons are
• Good for practicing a lot when you need a quick study in between
• Doctrinal study: use pamphlet and find scripture to support every statement of doctrine in the pamphlet
• Use book of pamphlet to guide PST
• Use as resources like scriptures: be super familiar with content so the spirit can direct the use
• Think of questions to ask about each paragraph or section 
• Use additional study in lessons in Chap 3: show a NY times video and have missionaries think and study: How would so and so feel if they understood these doctrines. 
• Use the questions and scriptures in the back to teach the principles while focusing on the pictures
• Look for promised blessings in Commandments to teach WILWFU
• Help the missionaries teach simply then expound with the scriptures 
• Help missionaries focus on the why and not the what 
• Invite investigators to do the additional study in the back and then follow up with them (helps them to learn how to study)
• Tool not crutch
• Talk about baptism early
• Read first few pages with district, kind of like a BOM read.. asking for thoughts and sharing insights as well as helping them effectively gather important info for lesson (i.e. making a lesson outline)

• Elder Bott/Helpworth in the District 2 did BOM read esque lessons but with the pamphlet all the time. Created much more of a role of the HG in C environment

• Pamphlet to teach/learn the doctrinal information, missionaries time can help them apply it
• Quicker study tool for helping missionaries to understand what the lessons are

• Good for practicing a lot when you need a quick study in between

• Have everyone present in the lesson take 10 minutes to study a principle and have everyone teach with missionaries guiding
• Church Prep
• Use the headings and front pictures of the 1st 3 lesson pamphlets to give missionaries/investigators a view of what our main message is
• Leave the next lessons pamphlets as an invitation in preparation for next lesson
• For TPNL- Have them take all pamphlets into a lesson and then find needs and pick a pamphlet to teach from
• Use pamphlets to help missionaries HELP. Let the pamphlet and spirit do the teaching
• Use the additional study questions and scripts to set up BOM reads and give demo of how BOM can help answer questions
• Help them see the importance of Rev through Prayer, scriptures and church by showing it’s in every pamphlet

List 2:

• Word Search
• Teach with yellow boxes
• Member visit questionnaire
• Cut out pictures, insert them in scriptures next to passage about it
• Give a member a page to teach from during lesson
• For an entire shift, the only resource is the pamphlet. For studying, teaching, everything
• Use the church section as not the best example of “why” church
• Have missionaries create their own footnotes (referencing the other pamphlets)
• Have investigator study it before the lesson

• have them prepare to teach a principle to the missionaries
• have them read through and write down questions or comments about each section
• have them pick a defined word from the back and underline it every time they see it in the pamphlet

• One sentence to condense each page, one sentence only
• Leave page with investigator, have them teach you next visit
• The missionaries use those instead of their notebook

• make the lesson plan in the margins of the pamphlet

• Have the missionaries write their own pamphlets based on their own understanding then, have them compare with actual pamphlets
• Have the investigator try to put the pictures in order? (kids?)
• Invite the missionaries to teach the DoC through the commandment pamphlets
• As part of planning, have missionaries go through pamphlets and make notations to personalize pamphlet info to needs (Inv.) and leave it with them to study on their own
• Use the list of terms in PI and in teaching lessons to help the missionaries and investigator understand complex terms
• Help them ponder the pictures more

• imagine themselves in the pictures
• who would they be

• Use only text boxes and headings to teach
• Cut up the pictures and turn them into a puzzle
• Use the blank space on the sacrament page for investigators to take notes in church or write questions
• Use the questions in additional study while you teach as inspired questions
• Teach the restoration from he pamphlet, but leave the gospel of Christ for them to study
• Teach WOW using Restoration Pamphlet or Chastity with PoS.. vise versa… 
• Cover pamphlet titles. Discuss and teach and ask questions just going off the covers

Why do we use the pamphlets? Why are they being pushed so hard right now?

Missionaries teaching right now is not on point. The brethren want to help, but have noticed that what they need is already out there, the pamphlets!! 

When missionaries use pamphlets more they talk less… leaving the investigator and the spirit to talk more.

The pamphlets allow us to focus on helping people. The missionaries don’t get caught up in the teaching, they have the pamphlet to help with that and they are they to do what they are supposed to, help the investigator. 

What are we taking away from this? 

Invitation:

Use some of the new/creative methods we discovered in your teaching this week (and weeks to come!)

January 15, 2015- Progressing Investigator

Weekly Training Meeting

January 15, 2014

To Complete Assignment: after going through the activities ask another teacher what they took away from the training.  Then write an email to Lisanne Murphy with what you learned and one thing you will try in progressing investigator in the near future. 

Announcements:

• Get your schedule into work scheduler!!! RIGHT NOW!!!!
• Fill out the Spring/Summer Projection Sheet- I want to know if you will be here!!! 
• Weekly Training Next Week- On Tuesday, January 20th, Daryl will be giving a training in 1M-B133 at 10:00am, 2:00pm and 5:00pm. Please attend ONE of these meetings!!! It will take place of our Thursday training. 
• HR policy-you can no longer do anything online
• Make sure you are using the pamphlets in every situation possible. 

Training Meeting with Daryl- TODAY!!!

How would you like your missionaries to come to class to just learn?

Recognize the shortcomings that they have…

To want to come to class and study…

How can we make this happen?

Read:

Pg. 4 in the blue book under Teach- The MTC provides…

What stands out to you in that paragraph?

Progressing Investigator: Teaching Progressing Investigators is the core of..

Pg. 50- Objective: Help missionaries understand the relationship between God and the investigator, and the missionaries’ role in helping investigators strengthen that relationship. 

Activity:

Draw the objective of this activity

Share your drawing and explain the objective you have drawn

The emphasis in this activity is in the right side of the triangle.. the relationship between the investigator and God

Read and think over the case studies while keeping that objective in mind

Case Study:

The missionaries are not asking inspired questions, so I won’t say anything unless they ask me good open-ended questions. 

*In this scenario, what role is the teacher playing?

Case Study:

• My missionaries are not helping me to read the Book of Mormon, so in the visit I plan to ask them questions that will help them point me to the Book of Mormon
• In week one I will be an easier investigator for my missionaries, but as they get closer to the end of their stay will I get progressively more challenging 
• My investigator didn’t know that the gospel was true until Moroni 10:3-5 was shared, so I will not be receptive until that scripture is shared

How is the teacher responding and why?

They are acting as a teacher trying to teach their missionaries.. wouldn’t an investigator always act like an investigator? Would they have these thoughts?

In the objective given it tells us to be GENUINE and AUTHENTIC

What can you do to be a PI who is genuine and authentic?

Group Activity:

• Teach the person next to you- like a new missionary would
• As the investigator- be open enough to give the missionary what they need but still be the investigator.. be authentic with your feelings and let the missionary see your true feelings as the investigator

While learning as the PI you need to be transparent/vulnerable

Help the missionary see the relationship that is developing between you and God

Help them feel like they want to be with you, be lovable, compelling

What is the purpose of the activity?

By doing these things as a PI we are helping the missionaries see the relationship that is developing between God and the investigator. 

January 8, 2015- Stewardship Document and Area Charter

Weekly Training Meeting

January 8, 2015

To Complete Assignment: Get a stewardship document and read through it, ask any questions you have, sign it and turn it in. Consider the questions below for the Charter and come up with 3 values that are meaningful to you.

Announcements:

• Welcome Zone 42!!!
• Get schedule in work scheduler by January 16th, put 30 minutes of prep time where you can and 15 where you can’t- 30 minutes is not required at the moment but will be in the future
• Mobile device training will be happening but not yet- fill the time for that with something else
• Follow the Syllabuddy that was sent in the email
• Zone meeting and comp meeting have changed to an hour
• Don’t steal from the cafeteria… duh
• Please do not force missionaries to say “I know” rather than “I believe”
• Next week Daryl will be doing weekly training
• The 20th there will be an all area training at 10am, 2pm, and 5pm
• 1M is off limits next week

Activity:

• Read over stewardship document
• Develop team charter- what values do you want to uphold and what do you want to be as an area- so that we can understand who we are and so we can keep ourselves accountable/each other accountable

Charter

Who are we?

What do we stand for?

What values will we uphold?

What values will we be able to call each other out on?

Why are we here?

What are we responsible for?

What scriptural, PMG, stewardship basis do we have for the values?

Our Thoughts

• Purpose
• Conduct
• Strength
• Accountable
• Recognize growth and encourage
• Unified!
• Honest on and off MTC grounds
• Helping missionaries and teachers recognize spiritual gifts.. helping them develop a vision of Their potential
• We are examples of Zion!
• Facilitate growth
• Love
• We need to took like what they want to be by the end
• Be respectful to missionaries and other teachers
• Witnesses
• We are disciples of Christ
• Obedient
• Stalwart
• Agency and accountability
• Mutual respect
• Do NOT be casual with our relationship with and responsibility to God
• #Gospel
• We read the BOM daily in a revelatory way
• We pray in a real way daily
• We prepare to make covenants
• We record our lie history in journals
• Have a “How good can I be” mentality, not a “How Good do I have to be”
• Be service oriented 
• Help each other with out being asked
• Show charity through actions
• Invite others unto Christ and not self
• Fearless and faithful 
• Trusting the Spirit and being quick to observe the missionaries 
• Humble enough to learn and adjust
• Not afraid of failure
• Example and all that that entails and implies
• Integrity
• Honesty
• Be respectful to missionaries and other teachers
• #forrealzz  like, be real and genuine with each other as teachers not cliche or culturally pawns

November 19, 2014-

Weekly Training Meeting

November 19, 2014

Announcements:

No Training next week

The week after that will be the last training of the semester

Tuesday is Friday classes next week- make sure you get subs if you need to

Group Thinking:

What have you learned about learning this semester?

• Participation encourages ownership
• It’s ok to learn in a different way than others
• You have to have the intention of using it
• So much of effective learning requires asking the right questions
• Sometimes we spread the most time finding the right question
• My learning should be used to LIFT others up
• The learning that I want to achieve, that is to understand the mind and will of God for me and his other children, is only possible through the infinite power of the Atonement, so I better invite it.
• You cannot be saved in ignorance
• Environment influences it
• there must be a need behind the learning. Also, as an agent you are accountable to create/see this need; not your professor
• Being an agent in learning is vital
• Learning requires faith, agency, and consecration through out
• First I obey then I understand
• The more I learn the more I realize I don’t know
• Knowledge is obtained by the spirit, the spirit combined with knowledge will change hearts, minds, and the world
• God understands perfectly the patterns of learning
• I need to be vulnerable- no pride
• The more you put in, the more you get out of it
• It’s more important to embody what we are learning then to spend time talking about it
• Practicing for the right reasons (Spirit)
• Learning is better retained and received when it springs from the desires of the learner

What are evidences in your life that your learning and teaching has changed?

• My missionaries rely on God more
• my relationship with Jesus Christ looks a lot different
• I see people differently
• The training model becomes a principle not application
• I am more accepting to different points of view
• I associate with my LA roommate in a different way, by spending more time understanding her, especially her desires
• There is more rejoicing in my classrooms as missionaries truly learn
• The Lord shows me my weakness. Accepting and seeking help from others
• I pray more 
• I ask for help
• Going from failing Chem to excelling at Chem
• I’m more reliant on God and less reliant on my experience
• My heart pondereth- continually on learning and teaching
• Talk less, listen more
• I am more comfortable going deeper with others
• I give people the benefit of the doubt

The Plan of Salvation

-JFSmith said that we testify that the plan of salvation is the gospel of Jesus Christ

L2=L3

Gospel in the BD- Good news- Christ’s Atonement

Think about this as a group and why it is said this way.

D&C 76, 88, 138

3 Nephi 27

2 Nephi 31

2 Nephi 9