Before I start, I want to give credit to Stephanie Bridges. Many of these ideas came from her. And apologize if there are a lot of grammar or spelling mistakes. I haven't had time to edit this. So, here we go....
LESSON
Ask three young women to read the following scriptures:
Doctrine and Covenants 88:77;
Doctrine and Covenants 88:118;
Mosiah 4:14–15.
• What does it mean to teach someone?
• Why is it important to teach others?
Cut an apple in half around the “belly”. Show the seeds and ask how many apples we could grow from these seeds. Talk about how you can count the seeds in an apple but you can't count the apples in a seed, meaning you never know what effect your teaching can have. Each day we teach by words, attitude, actions and examples.
Emphasize that when we teach in the right way, we give others knowledge or abilities that they can use to improve their lives and the lives of others. We learn most of the things we need to know from other people, either from their words or their examples.
There are different methods of teaching. We are going to discuss both spiritual teaching methods and practical teach methods.
1. TEACH BY GAME
Tell the class: The category is, “what ways are women teachers?” One girl will get one word and have to act or draw or describe it (without saying the word) to get the other girls to guess.
-Mother
-Job
-Church Calling
-Friend
-Missionary
See how you I taught you “how women are teachers” by using games.
Explain to the young women that throughout their lifetimes, they will have opportunities to teach. They teach in their present families; in school; among neighbors, friends, and peers; in their community; and in Church callings. They will also teach in their future family situations.
If they talk with a friend, counsel someone, or touch the life of a child, they have taught. They teach daily by words, attitudes, actions, and examples. They are always teaching.
Quotation
Elder Boyd K. Packer said: “Much of what we do is teaching. Showing a youngster how to tie his shoe, … helping a daughter with a new recipe, giving a talk in church, bearing testimony, conducting a leadership meeting, and, of course, teaching a class—all of this is teaching, and we are doing it constantly” (Teach Ye Diligently [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1975], p. 2).
Ask the young women to think of ways in which they have taught by word, attitude, action, or example during the past twenty-four hours. Encourage the young women to tell of specific things they have done.
Question • Where is the most important place that anyone can teach?
Quotation
President David O. McKay: “The home is the first and most effective place for children to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self-control; the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home” (in Family Home Evening Manual, 1968–69, p. iii).
Talk more about teaching as a mom using personal experience.
Explain that President Spencer W. Kimball said this about our most important teaching responsibilities:
“We remember the words of Nephi as he counseled: ‘And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ … that our children may know to what source they may look.’ (2 Nephi 25:26.) What inner strength would be in every person if he knew that the Master and His teachings were indeed his great source of guidance, his great source of correct example, his great source of help! That is our prime goal in all our teaching in the home” (“Therefore I Was Taught,” Ensign, Jan. 1982, p. 4).
Jesus Christ Is Our Example as a Teacher
• Who was the greatest teacher?
Display the pictures of Christ teaching, and explain that Jesus was the master teacher. Explain that we can learn much by studying his methods and following his example.
TEACH WITH LOVE
1. Jesus loved the people he taught, and they felt his love. See 3 Nephi 17:3–10. (Jesus loved the people so much that he stayed longer with them because they wanted him to. He healed their sick, and they worshiped him.)
TEACH WITH STORIES OR PaRABLES
2. He used stories and examples that were familiar to people so they would understand and be able to apply his teachings. See Luke 15:3–10. (Jesus used the examples of a shepherd and a woman cleaning her house to show Heavenly Father’s happiness when sinners repent.)
Method: Parables
The Lark - Sitting in the high branches of a tree, safe from harm, a lark saw a traveler walking through the forest carrying a mysterious small black box. The lark flew down and perched on the traveler’s shoulder.
“What do you have in the little black box?” He asked.
“Worms” the traveler replied.
“Are they for sale?”
“Yes, and very cheaply,” he said. “The price is only one feather per worm.”
The lark thought for a moment. I must have a million feathers; surely I won’t miss one of them. Here is an opportunity to get a good dinner for no work at all. So he told the man he’d buy one. He searched carefully under his wing for a tiny feather. He winced a bit as he pulled it out but the size and quality of the worm made him quickly forget the pain. High up in the tree he began to sing as beautifully as before. The next day he saw the man and once again exchanged a feather for a worm. What an effortless way to get dinner! Each day the lark surrendered a feather and each loss seemed to hurt less and less. In the beginning he had many feathers but as the days passed he found it more difficult to fly. Finally, after the loss of one of his primary feathers, he could no longer reach the top of the tree, let alone fly up into the sky. In fact he could do no more than flutter a few feet in the air, and was forced to seek his food with the bickering sparrows. The man with the worms came no more because there were no more feathers to pay for the meals and the lark no longer sang because he was ashamed of his fallen state.
Moral: I talked about giving eternal blessings away for temporal gratification. I talked about it as a parable about chastity and false "sense of love"/immorality and how boys will use girls as long as you keep giving them more and more of "themselves" and then they too will just walk away and leave a girl alone and in reality not loved. Don't sell your feathers for for instant gratification or "false love."
TEACH AT THE RIGHT MOMENT (when the spirit directs you)
3. He taught the people when they needed to be taught. He didn’t tell them to wait until it was convenient for him. See Luke 9:10–11. (Jesus and the Apostles had gone to a place where they could be alone, but the people followed them. Jesus did not tell them to go home and come back later. He taught them and healed them.)
EXAMPLES:
When you share comments in class or bearing your testimony, you are teaching others by your example and stories. Deciding to share (usually when the spirit directs you) is teaching at the right moment.
Sharing the gospel with friends is teaching at the right moment.
TEACH USING THE SCRIPTURES
4. He knew the scriptures well and had prepared himself spiritually to teach. See Matthew 4:1–11. (Jesus went to the desert so that he could spend time fasting and being with Heavenly Father. When the devil came and tempted him, he could resist the temptations because he knew what the scriptures taught.)
4. He knew the scriptures well and had prepared himself spiritually to teach. (orange) --I had an orange colored bag and inside I put a whole apple and a bag of cut up apples for them to pass out.--
Method: object lesson
Lesson: Begin eating the whole apple, tell the others how delicious the fruit you're eating is! Then continue to eat the apple. After stopping and telling the others about your delicious apple several times, ask if they would like to try some apple also. Pass around the sliced apples and have them try the fruit. Ask them if they agree that the fruit is delicious. After they agree that the fruit IS delicious, make the following point: As I have just demonstrated, I can tell you how delicious the apple is but you won’t really know until you try it for yourself. It is the same with scripture reading, someone else can tell you how wonderful it is but, you will never truly know and understand "how delicious it is," until you try it for yourself.
TEACH WITH THE SPIRIT and PRAYING
5. He prayed often for Heavenly Father to help him teach and to bless the people he taught. See 3 Nephi 17:14–17. (When Jesus prayed to Heavenly Father and asked him to bless the people, the things he said were so sacred that the people could not even write them.)
Method: brainstorming -- I asked them to come up with different ideas on how we can be better member missionaries. And I wrote their answers on the board.
Explain that by following the example of Jesus, the young women can teach others and help them change their lives. As women, friends and someday moms... we will always be teaching.
HANDOUT – I gave each girl an apple with a paper leaf tied to it with a bow and on the leaf it said “ ALWAYS A TEACHER”
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