Weekly Training Meeting
September 11, 2014
Announcements:
Go over Stewardship/Policies document, sign it, turn it in to Brooke.
Show Brooke your Temple Recommend.
Group Study:
Effective questions that you would ask someone if you wanted to know important things about their life.
(Class Insight)
What things (events, knowledge…) have made the greatest impact on your life?
What are some of your long and short term goals?
what do you want out of life?
What are your fears?
How do you get through challenging things?
What motivates you to improve?
What is lacking in your life currently?
Who is your biggest role model and why?
How has your family affected who you are today?
What does your family mean to you?
Pink flamingo or zebra?
What is your heart aching for?
What do you hope to have accomplished in 10 years?
What role has religion played in your life?
What are you passionate about?
What do you love about life?
What is your favorite thing about life and why?
What do you want more of in your life?
What are you proud of? Ashamed of?
What’s important to you?
What fulfills you?
What do you aspire to be?
What are your greatest desire?
What is hard about your life?
What makes you happy and why?
What is hard about your life?
Would you answer any question I ask?
Why do you do what you do everyday?
Describe your perfect day…
What do you yearn for in life?
Now go talk to someone (a teacher) you don’t know very well and get to know them with these questions.
Purpose for this activity:
What kind of environment do we need to create for each other and ourselves at the MTC?
Read Moroni 6:5
What was your experience like when talking about real things with each others?
(Class Insight)
- You find out so much more about each other. Gain more respect for people, want to be their friend, and help them. I now want to make an effort to be their friend.
- It increases your investment.
- D&C 50- it feels great to talk on a real level
- By asking these questions I was doing a lot of self reflection and the spirit was felt to help us along
- Our opportunities to minister would be so much greater if we could get to know people on a more personal level.
What keeps us from getting to know the welfare of others souls or exposing ours?
(Class Insight)
- time
- being vulnerable
- When i know the conversation is going to be ‘surface’ then i don’t want to have it because I know it doesn’t really matter. Having a conversation like this I would want to have.
- A lot of times we are afraid to putting people in an uncomfortable situation
- I felt like I started to see the other person the way that God sees us. In our normal world we don’t do that.
- It’s outside of the social norm and it weirds some people out
- We need to increase in our love and charity
- Going into the conversation it wasn’t give and take. We both went into it willing to give. When it comes to Christ he expects us to give and he is also giving.
- Never let someone you love come above something you need to get done.
If we can’t discuss the welfare of our souls, how are we supposed to show it to our missionaries who need to help their investigators.
We all need to be vulnerable enough to discuss the welfare of our souls.
Video of Ken Robinson about teachers- Not sure where this is? Ask Brooke
Teachers are the lifeboat of the success of schools
Mentor stimulate provoke engage- what teachers do
How do we have standardized tests in the MTC- missionaries think PI is like their standardized test
Elder Bednar said that if we always do what we’ve always done we will always get what we’ve always got.
We are behind in the hastening of the work.
What have we always done?
- Missionaries sit in desks
- Stay in one room for class. Undecorated.
- 3 hour classes
- start with song prayer and purpose
- missionaries listen to teacher
- Stress freaking management
- teacher evaluations
- follow the blue book
- showing videos
- teach fundamental that’s on the schedule
- practice last
- True learning is assumed through outward comments
- created comfortable environments by getting to know missionaries
- insights-revelation
- schedule (fundamentals, lessons…)
Can any of these things be changed as we go throughout the semester and learn about learning.
What are we going to do to change?
Throughout the remainder of my life, I will seek to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them.
- Richard G. Scott
True learning always involves recording, seeing, hearing and feeling.
Questions you have about learning in general?
- what do teachers do that makes it so learners are no longer agents in their own learning?
- What do they do that help missionaries be agents?
- How do I create desire?
- What helps learners get excited and invested in the learning experience?
- How do I really facilitate learning?
- What is the ideal internal result of the ‘learning’ for the learner?
- What contributes to helping excite, awake, and desire for learning and seeking?
- How can we help missionaries rejoice in learning?
- What does it really look like to have missionaries create learning experience?
- What can be done to customize learning for 6-12 missionaries who have different desires/needs/spirituality?
- How do you do all of this for 10 completely different people?
- How do you spark creativity and maintain unity? (so no one gets left behind)
- How can I help enable a learners ability to create (their creativity) by still accomplishing the objectives?
- Why do learners become bored?
- What is learning?
- Can learning be taught or is it just “caught”?
- What principles govern true learning?
- What role does agency play in learning?
- How does my learning impact my teaching/the learning of others?
- How do we ensure missionaries to not only understand but apply their purpose?
- How can I get to a point where I feel comfortable and it’s natural taking the back seat to the spirit as the teacher?
- How do we gain the faith to allow all of this to happen and stop relying on ourselves/try to force learning?
- What is the purpose of sacrament talks/EFY talks?
- Why can’t we use more technology/social media with missionaries?
Invitation:
Increase in Learning by David A. Bednar
Get a copy of this and if you don’t have the fund please contact Brooke
Read and do the workbook according to the Weekly Training Meeting Topics
Training Next week- not meeting formally. Pick an hour in your week next week to go to the Education in Zion exhibit, work independently, and see if some of the questions about learning that we had can be answered at that exhibit.
Act in faith, bring what you learn to our next training meeting.
