Sep 12 letter for new AP/YW and Youth Sunday School Curriculum

[lajackson]

This past week our stake president received some detailed instruction at a coordinating council meeting led by our area authority. I haven't yet heard the details of what he was taught, but he reported that Church HQ had a prescribed 60 minute training agenda for stakes to train bishoprics on this topic.

Our stake president has an unexpected and recently called coordinating council meeting this coming Sunday. The pieces are falling into place. It appears that we will need to call an additional bishopric training meeting. We recently held our last scheduled bishopric training meeting for the year.

Thank you for this very helpful information.

[johnshaw]

I would hope this would be apparent to any Stake President that has reviewed the material - It is a MAJOR change and coordinating with YM/YW/SS is going to take some effort. We luckily had an Auxiliary Training already in the works, so we'll be rolling it out during that period of time

[lajackson]

I would hope this would be apparent to any Stake President that has reviewed the material - It is a MAJOR change and coordinating with YM/YW/SS is going to take some effort. We luckily had an Auxiliary Training already in the works, so we'll be rolling it out during that period of time

We thought likewise, until we saw Alan's post in this thread (#20), which seems to indicate that the stake will be expected to provide training to the bishopric, who will then train their ward leaders and instructors.

Of course, we will provide instruction to our stake auxiliary leaders, as well, so that they will understand the new curriculum and know how to support their counterparts at the ward level.

[idjeeper2]

A new question. Is the training you received online, or was there more than what is available there? In other words, do the Youth Instruction Guidebook and the Youth Curriculum Introduction provide the basis of the training you received as you implemented this program?

We understand that we should receive instruction from our area leaders, but it is time to schedule and prepare for some stake and ward training sessions if we are to be ready by January.

Your question has already been answered but I'll follow up. I was not at the training because I'm not an instructor. All of the Sunday School Presidencies and Instructors, Young Women and Young Men Presidencies and Advisors, and Bishorics in the Stake were invited to a meeting to explain and "train". The training as I understand it did not amount to much. Mostly, they explained how the curriculum worked and turned them loose. As a pilot program, a lot of information was gathered in weekly surveys and I'm sure that the feedback was incorporated into the materials that will become available. For some instructors, it was very frustrating. One in our ward went so far as to write his own "lessons". The Sunday School President had to re-explain how the curriculum worked and he got it.

If you are familiar with how the Missionaries currently teach, how the Priesthood/Relief Society lessons are taught, and to some extent how the Gospel Doctrine class is taught; it's close to the same. Just pushing it down to a younger age group.