Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Welcome to this training video for early morning seminary teachers! In this session, we focus on the first crucial step of classroom inquiry: questions that invite your students to search for information.
Key Concepts Covered in This Training:
The Purpose of Search Questions: Discover how search questions help students build their basic understanding of the scriptures by inviting them to look for important details relating to the content.
Timing is Everything: Because these questions encourage students to look for specific information within the text, it is helpful to ask such questions before reading the verses where the answers are found. This focuses your students’ attention and empowers them to discover the answers directly within the scriptural account.
Crafting the Question: Learn how to formulate these foundational questions using key words such as who, what, when, how, where, and why. For example, you might ask, "According to Matthew 19:22, why did the rich young man leave feeling sorrowful?"
Laying the Groundwork for Deeper Learning: The answers to search questions are not the final goal; rather, they establish a foundation of basic understanding upon which other types of questions can then build to prompt greater understanding and application.
The Savior's Perfect Example: We explore how Jesus Christ modeled this exact pattern. By first asking the search question, “Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?”, He produced a background of information that perfectly prepared His disciples for His much deeper and more poignant question: “But whom say ye that I am?”
Watch now to learn how to lay a solid foundation for scriptural discovery and deeper learning in your classroom!
Welcome to this training video for early morning seminary teachers! In this session, we focus on the first crucial step of classroom inquiry: questions that invite your students to search for information.
Key Concepts Covered in This Training:
The Purpose of Search Questions: Discover how search questions help students build their basic understanding of the scriptures by inviting them to look for important details relating to the content.
Timing is Everything: Because these questions encourage students to look for specific information within the text, it is helpful to ask such questions before reading the verses where the answers are found. This focuses your students’ attention and empowers them to discover the answers directly within the scriptural account.
Crafting the Question: Learn how to formulate these foundational questions using key words such as who, what, when, how, where, and why. For example, you might ask, "According to Matthew 19:22, why did the rich young man leave feeling sorrowful?"
Laying the Groundwork for Deeper Learning: The answers to search questions are not the final goal; rather, they establish a foundation of basic understanding upon which other types of questions can then build to prompt greater understanding and application.
The Savior's Perfect Example: We explore how Jesus Christ modeled this exact pattern. By first asking the search question, “Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?”, He produced a background of information that perfectly prepared His disciples for His much deeper and more poignant question: “But whom say ye that I am?”
Watch now to learn how to lay a solid foundation for scriptural discovery and deeper learning in your classroom!
