New School
by what do you guys think about the new school?
have you looked through our new text book yet?
what changes are you excited about?
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one thing i like is the new counsel points. for example, #47 Effective Use of Visual Aids... of course we could always use visual aids in our talks, but now it'll be an assigned study point. i'm curious to see this one played out.
what do you guys think about the talk assignments with no assigned material? you get a theme and that's it! i think it'll be a struggle to keep the talk to 5 mins.
I like that one the best! It's like being back in "school". Makes you use your brain a little and teaches you to investigate. It will also probably help those who like to prepare their talks 1/2hr before the meeting.
i think it's gonna be a rough one to substitute for at the last minute. i've had school overseers approach me during the instruction talk to see if i could do a #4. that's no problem when it's coming right out of the reasoning or IT book. but with no material...*shudders*
I like the fact that the Bible reading (#2 talk) is JUST a reading... ni comments or anything.. just read the material. Also the speech quality talk is a great improvement and the Instruction Talk is 10 minutes with no questions or review... oh, and private counsel to be given takes a big load off my shoulders, since I'm an assistant school conductor in my congregation...
how do you figure the private counselling is different? there's still one minute counseling for #2-#4, and the private counselling for the other talks have always been suggested...
Yeah, I guess I need to clarify... the current counselling for talks 2 - 4 is 2 minutes, tops. The new arrangement promotes more of a private counselling of the points with the student. You can't do much but say "Nice work on that point, your next counsel point is *such and such*" in a minute... it relieves me of a lot of stress trying to tactfully give some meaty counsel in that 2 minutes.
how are the other students (i.e. the audience) going to benefit if you purposely avoid giving 'meaty counsel'?
sigh.... we'll just have to wait and see how it goes after January 1...
you know what i'm looking forward to ...no more written review...or the Rotten Review, as we call it in my hall (i'm kidding. we don't really call it that in my hall. just me.)
yeah, i forgot about that part...just an oral review. and it looks like we still have talks those weeks.
i'm old school. yet new school.
i love just reading. i love that. i want to marry it. have kids with it and raise little "just reading " kids.
then your kid can introduce themself to strangers: "Hi! I'm Just Reading" and the strangers will be like, "So...you little freak!"...ahhhh good times
they're building a new school right by my house