Teacher Support and Training Resources Classroom Management Guiding Document: Selecting and organizing student leadership in seminary.Selecting and organizing student leadership in seminary. Skill: Explain to students what a devotional is and why we have them.Explain to students what a devotional is and why we have them. Skill: Ask the class or someone in the class to identify a hymn to sing in a devotional in a careful versus casual way.Ask the class or someone in the class to identify a hymn to sing in a devotional in a careful versus casual way. Skill: Asking someone in class to say the opening prayer in a devotional in a careful versus casual way.Asking someone in class to say the opening prayer in a devotional in a careful versus casual way. Skill: Asking the class or someone in class to share a scripture thought in a devotional in a careful versus casual way.Asking the class or someone in class to share a scripture thought in a devotional in a careful versus casual way. Skill: Asking questions to understand reasons why a student is late.Asking questions to understand reasons why a student is late. Skill: Help students identify solutions to their tardiness.Help students identify solutions to their tardiness. Invite Diligent Learning Skill: Ask students follow-up questions.Ask students follow-up questions. Skill: Create application questions.Create application questions. Skill: Ask questions that help students see the relevance of a gospel principle.Ask questions that help students see the relevance of a gospel principle. Skill: Let students know they have time to think of a response when a question is asked.Let students know they have time to think of a response when a question is asked. Skill: Invite students to write insights in their study journal before they answer a question out loud.Invite students to write insights in their study journal before they answer a question out loud. Skill: Encourage students to share by inviting them to respond to their fellow students’ questions.Encourage students to share by inviting them to respond to their fellow students’ questions. Skill: Effectively using group work in the classroom.Effectively using group work in the classroom. Lesson Preparation Skill: Use the lesson purpose in the curriculum to simplify your lesson preparation and guide the selection of learning experiences for your students.Use the lesson purpose in the curriculum to simplify your lesson preparation and guide the selection of learning experiences for your students. Focus on Prophetic Teachings Skill: Invite current seminary students to ponder how they have already claimed blessings promised by President Nelson.Invite current seminary students to ponder how they have already claimed blessings promised by President Nelson. Skill: Invite current institute students to ponder how they have already claimed blessings promised by President Nelson.Invite current institute students to ponder how they have already claimed blessings promised by President Nelson. Skill: Encourage students to use modern prophetic teachings in devotionals.Encourage students to use modern prophetic teachings in devotionals. Skill: Using Questions to point to prophetic teachings in the moment of inquiry.Using Questions to point to prophetic teachings in the moment of inquiry. Skill: Thinking ahead—matching prophetic teachings to student concerns.Thinking ahead—matching prophetic teachings to student concerns. Skill: Listening to general conference with a student in mind.Listening to general conference with a student in mind. Scripture Study Goals Skill: Help students decide which scripture study method to use by providing them with a variety of scripture study methods to consider.Help students decide which scripture study method to use by providing them with a variety of scripture study methods to consider. Skill: Invite students to identify and use the invitations and promises from President Nelson’s Personal Invitation to Attend Seminary or Personal Invitation to Attend Institute to guide them in setting a meaningful personal scripture study goal.Invite students to identify and use the invitations and promises from President Nelson’s Personal Invitation to Attend Seminary or Personal Invitation to Attend Institute to guide them in setting a meaningful personal scripture study goal. Skill: Invite students to read the words of ancient and modern prophets and identify blessings they desire or could receive through scripture study.Invite students to read the words of ancient and modern prophets and identify blessings they desire or could receive through scripture study.