This week we talked about different kinds of teaching styles that are used by the different philosophers. It's really hard to choose one method in particular, so I think a mixed method is best. It is good to mix up your teaching styles or else it would get really boring. Some things I want to focus on when I start teaching is to know the content well, focus on the growth of the students, have an engaging environment, to have trust in the students while maintaining good classroom management, and to assess the student's knowledge to make suret they are understanding it. Also, you have to have high expectations in order to get a lot back from the students. I really like the quote, "don't cover information, uncover it." This is crucial because you will lose their interests very fast if you just read off the information.
This next scripture is one that we talked about in class and goes along with the concept of exponential growth:
D&C 58 27-28
Men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause and do many things of their own free will and to bring to pass much righteousness. For the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves. And inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward.
If we are anxiously engaged in a good cause and bringing to pass righteousness then there is no digressing in our path of righteousness-- no standing still. We should be wanting to do good in this world and to make it a better place and to become the best we can be. It is selfish of us to not apply our skills and talents into retaining as much knowledge as we can.
