PROVO, Utah — Pay attention now, class. A major transformation is underway within the LDS Church, reshaping all teaching and learning from Sunday School courses to the priesthood.
The shake up is radical, but members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are only beginning to grasp the breadth and depth of a fresh emphasis on the learning process through the introduction of new methods, teaching manuals and curriculum.
"We have had a revolution in teaching in the church. Most of you have not caught onto it yet, but the Brethren are modeling it," LDS employee Ronald Schwendiman told an Education Week audience at Brigham Young University last year.
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"Focus first and foremost not on 'What I'm going to do'?" he suggested, "but on 'What do I want my learners to be doing. How can I help them do that?' A teacher might ask, 'How do I invite and help those around me to learn for themselves?'"
Inviting, encouraging and providing students with opportunities to use their agency helps them assume responsibility for their own learning and empowers personal conversion, or what church leaders call "real growth."
When you think about it, this kind of learning is exactly what correlation was designed to eradicate.
So, less of a revolution, more of a disavowing of the years of correlated teaching.
It's like flares are back in fashion.
For example see the "Apostles are utterly disconnected with membership" thread.
