Teacher Helps / Ideas

Teacher Helps / Ideas

Here are some "things".
Sharlene C. in UT

Teacher's aide or survival kit

Contained in this kit are items to help you become a wonderful teacher

Mounds bar - for the mounds of help you are to the teacher
Button- to remind you to sometimes "button your lip"
Rubberband - so you always stay flexible
Tootsie Roll - so you can roll with the punches
Tissues - to wipe the tears from joy and happiness
Marbles - to replace the ones you've lost (extra included, you'll need once you become a teacher)
Mint - to remind you, that you are worth a "mint" to the class
Candle - for when you stay up late working on assignments
Penny - so you'll never be broke
Toothpick - so you can "pick" out the qualities that make a great teacher
Paperclip - to hold your busy life together
Cotton - for when you can't hear yourself think
Hugs & Kisses - when you need a hug
Pencil - to :"write your wrongs"
Lollipop - to lick your problems
Pack of gum - so you all can "stick" together
Bandaid - to heal hurt feelings, yours or theirs
A jewel - because you are as valuable as any precious stone!

A TEACHER COME FROM GOD
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

"Inspired instruction in the home and in the Church helps provide this crucial element of nourishing by the good word of God. We are so grateful to all who teach. We love you and appreciate you more than we can say. We have great confidence in you. To teach effectively and to feel you are succeeding is demanding work indeed. But it is worth it. We can receive "no greatercall".

(Here are the references from the conf. talk by Elder Holland, sorry, I don't know date of address.)

NOTES

1. John 3:2.
2. Moro. 6:4;
3. Teaching-No Greater Call (resource materials for teacher improvement,1978); see also Spencer W Kimball, "No Greater Call," Sunday School Conference, I Oct.1967.
4.1 Cor 12:28.
5. D andC 20:59.
6. David O. McKay in Conference Report, Oct.1916, 57.
7. See Acts 8:26-31.
8. Rom.10:13,14,17; emphasis added.
9. Teachings of Spencer W Kimball, ed. Edward L. Kimball (1982), 524; emphasis added.
10. "How to Be a Teacher When Your Role as a Leader Requires You to Teach," General Authority Priesthood Board Meeting, 5 Feb. 1969; emphasis added. .
11. Matt. 28:19-20.
12. John 21:15-19.
13. D&C 50:14,17-18.
14. D&C 42:14.
15. Ex. 33:15.
16. Alma 8:15; 26:27.
17. Alma 31:5.
18. See John Taylor The Gospel Kingdom, sel. G. Homer Durham (1943), 78.
19. "The Charted Course of the Church in Education' [address given at Brigham Young University Summer School in Aspen Grove, Utah, 8 Aug.1938], 4, 9.
20. See D and C 43:8,16.
21. Rom. 2:21.
22. Jer 1:6, 8,17.
23. See Jer. 20:7-9.
24. Hel. 5:45.
25. John 20:16; see footnote to Greek.

"With all of our doing, with all of our leading, with all of our teaching, the most important thing we can do for those whom we lead is to cultivate in their hearts a living, vital, vibrant testimony and knowledge of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of the world, the Author of our salvation, He who atoned for the sins of the world and opened the way of salvation and eternal life. I would hope that in all we do we would somehow constantly nourish the testimony of our people concerning the Savior. I am satisfied - I know it's so - that whenever a man has a true witness in his heart of the living reality of the Lord Jesus Christ, all else will come together as it should. That is the root from
which all virtue springs among those who call themselves Latter-day Saints."

(Gordon B. Hinckley, BYU married students regional conference, priesthood leadership meeting, Provo, Utah, 10 Feb. 1996; see _Ensign_, Aug. 1997, p. 3)

TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR TEACHERS

1. Thou shalt not give thy lesson "cold". As the unplowed land rejecteth the seed, so does the unprepared mind.
2. Honor thy class by making it comfortable, yea, both in body and spirit. No student learneth well when the light hurteth his eyes or a draft striketh the back of his neck nor when formality or stiff unfriendliness chilleth his spirit.
3. Thou shalt not read thy lesson in class. This mortal sin springeth from a lazy mind and a puffed up ego which will not let thine eye see nor thine ear hear how dull thou art.
4. Thou shalt not fail to enrich the material. All doctrine and no story maketh a dull lesson.
5. Thou shalt not eternally lecture. Remember others too have brains and tongues and a desire to use them.
6. Thou shalt not ask "yea" or "nay" questions nor give out with thine own learned answers before thy pupils can set words to their tongues. Such tactics choke discussion and squelch the spirit of men.
7. Thou shalt not offend any student with sarcasm or ridicule or by ignoring him to give thine ear only to the "big wheels" of the class.
8. Thou shalt not teach the ear only, but the eye, and the spirit also and indeed the whole man.
9. Thou shalt not bluff. Only a fool pretendeth to know that which he doth not know, to believe that which he doth not believe, or to have prepared that which he hath not looked at. Dull is the eye that doth not quickly spot the phoney.
10. Thou shalt be humble and warm and understanding, teaching not lessons only, but human beings, whom thou shalt love as God's children and thy sisters and brothers.

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