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Teach about the titles, roles, and attributes of Jesus Christ.

“Teach about the titles, roles, and attributes of Jesus Christ,” Teacher Development Skills (2022)

“Teach about the titles, roles, and attributes of Jesus Christ,” Teacher Development Skills

Focus on Jesus Christ

Teach about the titles, roles, and attributes of Jesus Christ.

Look for symbols that testify of Jesus Christ.

Skill: Create search questions to help students identify roles, titles, symbols, attributes, and characteristics of Jesus Christ.

Define

As we seek to help students search for Jesus Christ in the scriptures, they can come to know and love Him. One way to create a search question that helps students identify a role, title, symbol, attribute, or characteristic of Jesus Christ is to include the following in your question: (1) the scripture passage, (2) what you want the student to seek (roles, titles, symbols, attributes, or characteristics of Jesus Christ), and (3) how students will discover these things for themselves. These questions should be brought up before you have students read the scripture passage so that students are prepared to discover what they can learn about Jesus Christ.

Model

Review the following questions, and notice how they include the scripture passage, what the students will seek, and how students will discover it for themselves:

  • As you read the story of the good Samaritan in Luke 10:25–37, what divine attributes of Jesus Christ can you see?

  • As you study Doctrine and Covenants 29:1–8, find three different titles and roles of Jesus Christ that feel relevant to what you need right now in your life.

  • As you read Acts 3:1–7, what do you notice about Peter that reminds you of Jesus Christ?

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Practice

Read the following verses, and for each set of verses write a search question that helps students discover roles, titles, symbols, attributes, and characteristics of Jesus Christ.

Discuss or Ponder

  • What did you learn about becoming a Christlike teacher from this experience?

  • How can this help our students and classroom discussions focus more on Jesus Christ?

Incorporate

Using what you learned in practice, think about the circumstances and needs of your students as you study to prepare your lessons this week. With one scripture passage in your lesson, write a search question that will help students discover the roles, titles, symbols, attributes, and characteristics of Jesus Christ to help them focus on Him. Write down the questions that come to you and, if you have time, practice asking those questions to someone before you ask any in class. This will help you refine your question before you use it with your students.

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