3.1.5 Encouragement and Direction Given to Expression

Most pupils in class are ordinarily inclined to sit silently by and let someone else do the talking. And yet, everyone enjoys participating in a lesson when once “the ice is broken.”

It is the teacher’s task first of all to create an atmosphere of easy expression and then later to help make that expression adequate and effective.

The bishop of one of our wards in southern Utah declared, not long ago, that he traced the beginning of his testimony back to a Primary lesson in which a skillful teacher led him to commit himself very enthusiastically to the notion that the Lord does answer prayers.

He said he defended the proposition so vigorously that he set about to make sure from experience that he was right. The details of securing this expression will be more fully worked out in the chapter on Methods of the Recitation.

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1. 3.1.3 Interpretation and Elaboration of Truth