March 19, 2015- True Study

To Complete Assignment:Email Lisanne including two insights about what study is, two insights about what you learned as you studied page 78, and send Lisanne a lesson plan of a practice of what you learned. 

Announcements:

• Jason Hoyt Scholarship applications are due tomorrow!!
• Dedicated floating plans- Get some!
• Sign-Ups will hopefully be out on Monday
• New TRC Orientation has been created on the first Friday… Tell your missionaries to go
• Conference weekend on Saturday there are NO teaching shifts- all Saturday lessons get pushed to Monday. FOR ALL SHIFTS. 

How did you use The Manner of Happiness principles or website this week?

What does it mean to study?

• To read gospel stuff
• To Ponder!
• Put forth work/effort to obtain knowledge/understanding
• Talking with God
• To receive revelation from God that you act on
• To make something a part of you (via reputation)
• A detailed analysis or investigation of a subject!
• To sacrifice what you know before to obtain better truth
• To obtain the word
• To demonstrate and exercise the faith God has given us, so that he can give us more
• Sitting at my desk reading a book
• a way to facilitate revelation from God
• Search! Ponder!
• The price of understanding
• To dive deeper
• Building skills/knowledge 
• Painstaking application
• Purpose, intent
• To devote oneself to
• Cultivating a branch of knowledge 

How is your paradigm changing as you read these definitions?

If we understand what study really is then we should understand the flipped classroom experience better.

Read:

PMG pg. 17- Effective Study -replace study with one of the phrases above

On pg 17-19- until study and teach the lessons, don’t read that part

any time you see the word study replace it with on of these statements or with the word experience

What are you learning?

• Life here at the MTC is constant study.
• Studying=A state of being… no a strict activity. Broken heart and contrite spirit coming to God rather than checking a box that you did it. There shouldn’t be a line between study and practice, it’s a state of mind not an activity. 
• Continuing process of study in everything you do each day
• You need to develop a habit of demonstrating and exercising faith. Demonstrate faith while studying.
• Experience helps us to build faith and study. Learn by doing.
• Practice is study

Go to:

Blue book pg. 78

These principles pertain to demonstrations and reading time. 

Coordinate/Compare these with Elder Bednar’s principles

     Prepare to Learn

     Interact to Edify

     Invite to Act

Personal Activity:

Continuing on the same page… Go through and star the ones that you are a ninja at and circle the ones that need some work

What are you learning about effective study?

What are you learning about flipped classrooms?

Activity:

Plan a practice or study active that implements pg. 78 and Elder Bednar’s trifecta.

     Write out the parts where you have circled the struggle spots. 

Insights you’ve gained

Studies or practices that lack the objective are pointless (objectiveless)

My prep needs to be different

Invitation:

Come up with your own as always.

Try to make every experience that the missionary has as true study. Everything becomes a study because it is a state of mind. 

March 12, 2015- The Manner of Happiness

Weekly Training Meeting

March, 12, 2015

To Complete Assignment: After reviewing the website, send a draft of your life mission if you would like to share or 2 ideas of how this can help your life to Lisanne. 

Announcements:

Apply for the John Hoyt Scholarship if you qualify!

Assignments hopefully coming out next week… be ready for an email and to read the instructions!!

What is a life mission?

• Vision of specific principles that you choose to live by.
• An understanding of God’s vision.
• What you need to become or how to get there.
• Something you are trying to become and achieve int his life. 
• Road map towards what you want to accomplish is life and who you want to become.
• Vision and direction… it’s the view and the path.

How can we turn our bikes around?

Life Missions are super exciting to start and DIFFICULT to continue.. how can we create it and not only have it be exciting but have it stick!

Go to Sean’s life mission website- The Manner of Happiness

www.themannerofhappiness.com

This website was built to be used with a coach, someone who has used it before and can help you to get to know it and start on it.

Please contact one of the coaches to get started. 

Lisanne Murphy

Sean Rockwood

Ben Jones

Kaeley Haws

Kate Merriman

Fabrizio Cena

Darren Gleason

Brady Schvaneveldt

This is built for you- It’s to help you create your life mission, develop it, refine it, keep it. 

Make a plan for how you are going to use this. If you don’t want to use it then let us know why. Give feedback on the page. 

March 5, 2015- The Lord is Hastening His Work... Are We Keeping Up?

Weekly Training Meeting

March 5, 2015

To Complete Assignment: In order to do this training you will need to contact Lisanne or Sally to come in some time and read the talk by Elder Bednar explained below. Lisanne would like for you to do this in a group if possible. When finished, pick 3 of the questions to answer and one thing you will start doing differently in an email and send it to Lisanne. 

Announcements:

• Flipped Classrooms- everyone is flipped excepted zone 26.. they will flip when they pick up
• Assignments for next semester!!- Lisanne needs to know your needs and what your plans are
• New Training Coordinator position is open until the 8th
• Floating is going to increase! Make sure you have plans for that- be proactive!! Also, starting March 11th Daryl will be doing a training for floating teachers. Look out for an email about it.
• Training Coordinators will also be teaching a block almost every day… again wait for an email
• Has anyone here served in an iPad mission? Talk to Lisanne
• Let Lisanne know if you are interesting in blended learning

Accountability:

How did you use pamphlets this week?

How did you improve on your covenants?

Elder Bednar’s Talk- given at mission president seminar last year.

You must get this from Lisanne (it is not to leave the MTC)

Everything that the MTC is talking about right now is centered around this talk

What’s he talking about-

• Hastening
• God’s work not ours
• We need to keep up
• God does the hastening
• This is his work, his investigators, his missionaries, his children
• We need to change to keep up

Evidences

• More missionaries
• Quality of incoming missionaries
• Meet the Mormons
• ISIS
• Technology (iPads…)
• More Missions
• Come follow me curriculum 
• Family History Focus
• Attack on Pornography
• Media
• Both sides of veil
• Bar raised
• Age Change
• Every member a missionary
• Adversity prominent
• Preach My Gospel

How are we doing?

     Not that great- we aren’t participating in much of it

     our jobs help us to stay more current with these things.. meaning we should be more proactive and expand our influence to others

     How can I understand my role? What does it look like to keep pace?

     We aren’t in shape to keep up with it but we’re trying

Lisanne’s Graphs- Missionaries and Convert Baptisms (ask Lisanne to see this)

1988 Pres. Benson Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon

What do you see in the graphs?

• Number of missionaries and baptisms don’t relate too much
• Wards not using their missionaries properly
• Lots of new missionaries, quality of training may have suffered. Blind leading the Blind.
• In a way we are starting over.. we are in a preparatory state
• President Benson's talk was more about converting missionaries as opposed to gaining baptisms

Lissy- Blind are leading the blind, a lot of prep for them to change culture, I’ve never sat in GC listening to the numbers and felt accountable for it. We have almost doubled our missionaries but not our baptisms.

How would it be if you felt accountable for those numbers?

What impact would that make on you and how you are teaching? 

How do we keep up? Will we keep pace?

Questions to Consider:

• What is it going to take to keep the pace?
• How can we maximize a flipped classroom to do things differently?
• How do you personally need to change?
• How did E. Bednar demonstrate his pattern?
• • Prepare to learn
  • Interact to Edify
  • Invite to Act
• What are you learning about the purpose?
• How is the Lord hastening the work in your life?
• • Are you keeping up?

What are you thoughts? 

• The pattern that we follow is the Christlike patterns… he has many different patterns and it is up to us in the moment to decide which pattern to use
• Additional improvement is not and will ever be needed. Constantly adapting.
• My life is separated into different categories and I need to apply things and mesh everything together
• I’m a little disconnected, and my invitations I have been taking on are not what they should be. I need to invite missionaries to do things as if they were an investigator.
• If I’m not supposed to use what I learned to help teach them then what should I be teaching them
• • What we know is more of reservoir.. we need to leak out little bits to the missionaries.

Invitation:

Make this a matter of personal ponderence and thought? How are you personally going to keep the pace? Think about Prepare to Learn, Interact to Edify, and Invite to Act. 

2/26/15 Pamphlets Revisited

Weekly Training
2/26/15
Pamphlets Revisited

TO COMPLETE THE ASSIGNMENT:
- email me 2 ways you have used the pamphlets since our last training on pamphlets
- email me 2 ways you want to use pamphlets in the future
- practice using the pamphlets while being a HELPER with your zone coordinator

Announcements:
- English Training Coordinator position open - apply if you are interested
- VC Help this week
- Flipped classrooms are now in Zones 3,5,31.  Zones 26,42 to come next week
- Frisbee Saturday, but not official activity....we are moving the zone vs. zone to another time
- Opportunity: If you are interested in Blended Learning and participating in some pilots email Lisanne
- Opportunity: If you are interested in being a leader in a new English area - email Lisanne

Accountability:
- Review what you learned about covenants this week from your sabbath observance or teaching Rev. through Church

Introduction:
- Record on the board what you have tried with the pamphlets so far
- record how much progress you have made with the pamphlets since we trained on it a couple weeks ago.

Study Activity:
- Read through the pamphlets again to become more acquainted with them
- go through the blue book and note where you can use the pamphlets to help as a reminder.
     -be specific! don't just put "pamphlet" next to something.  define the pamphlet, page, paragraph

Practice Activity:
- Using Teach People Not Lessons first practice, use the pamphlets to teach Alydia.  make sure the pamphlets and the spirit are doing the teaching.  And you as the missionary are doing the HELPING!

Invitation:
- don't just use the pamphlet more, use them more effectively.

Thank you everyone!

February 19, 2015- Covenants->Thinking Forward

Weekly Training Meeting 

February 19, 2015

To Complete Assignment:  Email Lisanne how your understanding of the directionality of covenants has changed for your personal understanding and one way you will implements what you have learned in the classroom in Revelation Through Church attendance

Announcements:

• VC Sisters will be here next week!!! Read the email that was sent out to come come help!
• In the summer we will be getting a new English Area- Zone 42 will be leaving.. we also need a few teachers from our area to go. Is there anyone who would like to/be interested in transferring to the new area?
• Flipped classrooms are only starting when Lisanne says to! You’ll know when this happens. 
• Email/text Lisanne if you would want to work evening shift in Spring/Summer
• IF you are leaving before April 28 make sure you have your classroom taken care of
• Area Ultimate Frisbee- February 28th at 11:00am.. Look for an email!!

Accountability: pamphlet usage and flipped classroom thoughts and ideas

Lisanne’s confession: I’m good at what is in front of me at the time.. when it’s gone I don’t think of if any more. When we focus on prayer my prayers are awesome.. but when we don’t focus on it then things slide back to normal.

How can we expand our grasp?

Is it a problem or not?

Habit forming and faith promoting- Faith is NOT Habit

we do things to build habits but it doesn’t build our faith… that doesn’t mean that they aren’t faith promoting

Are your habits faith promoting?

We can’t trick ourselves into thinking our habits are building our faith if they are only habits.

• We need to have a purpose when doing these things. How/why was it easier on the mission. Because we had a purpose. What is your purpose now? Don’t lose sight of it.
• Have I come closer to Christ each day by the way I am living?

Activity Focus: Covenants- in helping us creating faith promoting habits

Try to understand the directionality of faith gaining covenants

directionality- covenants that help our past, our present, our future

Use a piece of paper to write/draw/organize the directionality of our covenants

Study:

• pg. 63-65 PMG
• D&C 20:77, 79
• Mosiah 4:6-7
• Words used in confirmation
• Redeeming vs. Enabling power of atonement
• The Missionary Purpose

What is the directionality of covenants?

Past?

Present?

Future?

Why is directionality important?

What direction does God view our covenants?

What are you learning?

• Our covenants change out past… our future is determined by our covenanted past. Not the past we necessarily remember.
• This activity helped visualize how this is one eternal round. The covenants that we make not help us to move forward… in a spiral upwards.
• It’s a circle
• God, us and covenants are like merging plates.. it’s where the magic happens
• 2 Nephi 31- covenants give us something to work towards, something to stretch to, it also helps us to see the growth in our own progression
• Think about covenants as people.. what effect do my covenants have on others
• The water cycle… the sun makes it possible. It’s not just a cycle it’s a refinement process. The water here has never left, only been refined and renewed. Covenants are seen as a cycle but we are becoming cleaner and cleaner as we go. 

In your blue book go to pg 34- Rev Through Church Attendance

Watch German reflecting on his experience at church 

Practice: How would you respond to help German think forward. Practice. 

Wherefore what?

• I need to go study my family history.. 
• without covenants we couldn’t access the atonement then the future and the past would all be the same- covenants give us a future different than our past
• Be more engaged
• It’s not just about renewing our baptism.. it’s about being WILLING 

Invitation: 

Follow what the Holy Ghost is telling you about your covenants

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!)