Fundamental problems in teaching religion; designed for quorum instructors and auxiliary class teachers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 ...subjects may be made of even greater interest than easy ones. 4. Use the greater part of this class hour for illustrating how to create interest in subjects ordinarily found hard to teach. Helpful References Those listed in Chapter XI. CHAPTER XIV THE MORE IMMEDIATE PROBLEMS IN TEACHING Outline--Chapter XIV The steps involved in the preparation of a The aim; organization; illustration; application; questions.--Problems involved in the presentation of a The point of contact; illustration; the lesson statement.--Various. possibilities.--The questioning; application.--The matter summarized. So many textbooks have been written about teaching--so many points of view have been advanced--such a variety of terminology has been employed, even in the expression of a single educational notion--that beginning teachers are frequently at a loss to know just how to set about the task of teaching. Leaving for further consideration the more purely theoretical aspects of our problem, let us face the questions of most immediate How To Prepare A Lesson. How To Present A Lesson Is there not a common sense procedure which we can agree to as promising best results in these two fundamental steps? At the outset let us agree that preparation and presentation are inseparable aspects of but one process. Preparation consists of the work done behind the scenes--presentation involves the getting over of the results of that work to the audience--the class. Frequently teachers are confused because they mistake directions governing preparation as applying to presentation. For instance, one teacher proceeded to drill a class of small children on the memorizing of the aim--an abstract general truth--unmindful of the fact that the aim was set down for the teach...