Come, Follow Me: New Youth Curriculum.

[SCcoug]

Also if we are ditching the PH/RS as well for the curriculum the lessons from SS to PH/RS would have very similar topics. That is probably the most common complain I've heard from the youth curriculum.

[kccougar]

The youth in my stake really like the Come Follow Me curriculum. They've pretty much all said they enjoy SS and quorum meetings more. I don't see why it wouldn't have the same effect for adults.

[Mrs. Funk]

I taught a year of the new curriculum. The youth curriculum is a big improvement over the older manuals, but not without problems. The material is rather repetitive between SS and YW/YM. It covers the same topic for a whole month in both, with many of the same resources listed for parallel lessons in both.

I found the YW were often essentially receiving identical lessons two hours in a row and bored to tears. I feel that teachers need to be creative and use the lesson outlines as a jumping off point, but that strictly following them leads to boring and repetitive lessons (although this was certainly true before).

I'd anticipate the same problems if the program is implemented for adult lessons.

[Uncle Ted]

I taught a year of the new curriculum. The youth curriculum is a big improvement over the older manuals, but not without problems. The material is rather repetitive between SS and YW/YM. It covers the same topic for a whole month in both, with many of the same resources listed for parallel lessons in both.

I found the YW were often essentially receiving identical lessons two hours in a row and bored to tears. I feel that teachers need to be creative and use the lesson outlines as a jumping off point, but that strictly following them leads to boring and repetitive lessons (although this was certainly true before).

I'd anticipate the same problems if the program is implemented for adult lessons.

This would give me yet another reason to skip the third hour to go home to watch football/nascar… like I need another reason.

[Moliere]

This is correct. The adults are not yet ready to be taught in the same way the savior taught.

New curriculum used by youth now coming to adult classes:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865600384/LDS-adults-to-get-new-course-outlines-for-Sunday-classes-new-Sunday-School-president-says.html?pg=1

I don't know enough about the youth curriculum to know if this is a good or bad thing. Thoughts?

I guess they are now ready

I taught a year of the new curriculum. The youth curriculum is a big improvement over the older manuals, but not without problems. The material is rather repetitive between SS and YW/YM. It covers the same topic for a whole month in both, with many of the same resources listed for parallel lessons in both.

I found the YW were often essentially receiving identical lessons two hours in a row and bored to tears. I feel that teachers need to be creative and use the lesson outlines as a jumping off point, but that strictly following them leads to boring and repetitive lessons (although this was certainly true before).

I'd anticipate the same problems if the program is implemented for adult lessons.

This is pretty much correct. I think CFM is a big good step and encourages a bit more uncorrelated lesson/discussion. It's light years better than the old manuals (which still taught against interracial marriage ) but only in the hands of a decent teacher and someone that will prepare. We noticed that our youth aren't really preparing more, but they are simply using the old manuals (which are still available online) and taking full lessons from those manuals when teaching. Kids are smart and lazy. Also, CFM hasn't been the crazy success story that leadership makes it out to be, but it hasn't failed. The church will always struggle in this regards because it uses mostly untrained people to teach lessons.

For adults I like the idea as I think most GD teachers will prepare better than your typical youth. The new format was probably already followed by most good GD teachers as I imagine they would just skim the material in the lesson manual and then find their own resources or create their own outlines. This format will force the bad GD teachers to try and be better. It opens up the possibility of having a better dialogue in class but also opens up the possibility of the crazy BRM types to spout their stuff as well. In any instance, it'll be interesting to see how this goes.

[Pelado]

I guess they are now ready



This is pretty much correct. I think CFM is a big good step and encourages a bit more uncorrelated lesson/discussion. It's light years better than the old manuals (which still taught against interracial marriage ) but only in the hands of a decent teacher and someone that will prepare. We noticed that our youth aren't really preparing more, but they are simply using the old manuals (which are still available online) and taking full lessons from those manuals when teaching. Kids are smart and lazy. Also, CFM hasn't been the crazy success story that leadership makes it out to be, but it hasn't failed. The church will always struggle in this regards because it uses mostly untrained people to teach lessons.

For adults I like the idea as I think most GD teachers will prepare better than your typical youth. The new format was probably already followed by most good GD teachers as I imagine they would just skim the material in the lesson manual and then find their own resources or create their own outlines. This format will force the bad GD teachers to try and be better. It opens up the possibility of having a better dialogue in class but also opens up the possibility of the crazy BRM types to spout their stuff as well. In any instance, it'll be interesting to see how this goes.

Not sure that I would have qualified as good, but when I taught, I would type out my own outline starting out with first reading the source material, then any other reference materials I intended to use, then the lesson manual last. I figured everyone had already heard what was in the lesson manual every 4th year, so I would try to find something to say they hadn't heard before.

Of course, I also now have 50+ outlines that can be modified slightly to use as talks.