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Tips for Teachers
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Tips for Teachers
To help others "come unto Christ" is the great opportunity and responsibility of every teacher in the Church.
The following ideas may help in fulfilling that sacred duty.
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1. Prepare early. Give yourself enough time to read, study, and ponder,
and thereby allow additional thoughts and inspiration to come. (See 1 Nephi 11:1; D&C 138:1-11.) 2. Prepare thoroughly. There is no substitute for
reading and mastering the lesson material. (See D&C 11:21-22.) 3. Prepare prayerfully. The Spirit comes by the prayer of faith. (See D&C 42:14; Moroni
2:1-2.) 4.
Live worthily so that, as President Harold B. Lee said, the Spirit will be there when you teach. Be an example
of what you teach: President David O. McKay said that you teach what you are. 5. Love and pray for those you teach. Love
is the great commandment, and softens hearts and open minds to learning, repentance, and resolve to greater righteousness,
as Joseph Smith taught.
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6. Use the scriptures, especially the Book of Mormon. Its plain
and precious truths are powerful. (1 Nephi 13:40.) 7. Teach the basic truths about Christ and His Gospel. You are called to bring the power of
the Atonement into the lives of your class members. (See D&C 6:9; 11:9.) 8. Teach by the Spirit; it is the Lord's commandment (D&C 42:14). The
Spirit teaches truth, changes hearts, and comforts the soul, as the scriptures teach (see Moroni 10:4-5; Mosiah 5:2; Moses
6:61). 9. Invite and allow significant
class participation. Draw on the collective knowledge of the class, and thereby follow the scriptural admonition
to "teach one another." (D&C 88:77.) 10.Testify of Christ and invite all to come to Him.
This is the mission of every teacher in the Church. (See Ether 12:1; Moroni 10:30-32.) |
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