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Come Follow Me – YW Teaching Curriculum

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Some of my sweet Young Women in front of the Mesa, AZ temple.

Now that Christmas is officially over, I’ve FINALLY had some time to dig my feet into learning about the church’s new Youth Curriculum.  I must say that when I first heard about this new change, I was a tad bit  nervous. {I’m not a big fan of too much change!}  But now that I’ve had the chance to start studying about it and watching the videos provided online…I am ECSTATIC and wonder why we haven’t been teaching like this ALL ALONG??
I’ll be posting my ideas and thoughts more as the year gets started.
{So many fun things to do and learn!}
For now, I thought I would share an email with you that I sent out to my fabulous leaders just last night.  I just BARELY finished up our teaching schedule for the new year and if you’d like to see a copy of it to use as a guideline for your own group, please feel free to comment on here with your email address and I’d be happy to send you that along with some more details!  It’s all a tad overwhelming at first but once I sat down and figured things a little more…I became at peace with how it all should happen!
I hope you find this email useful and please…contact me with any questions! I’m no pro by ANY  MEANS but the power of social networking with questions and answers has helped me SO MUCH with my calling in the past! Again, my ideas are JUST SUGGESTIONS!
xoxo
Marci
Ladies! Attached is a copy of the 2013
LESSON/TEACHING schedule.  Please look it over as each month is a
little different, print it out and put it in your binders.
I have to admit.  I was a little skeptical
{okay…nervous!} about the whole new teaching curriculum.  It hasn’t been
until this past week where I’ve had the chance to sit down, ponder, and read
everything online about it.  I must say….NOW I’M EXCITED about it!
 I really am! I would ask each of you to sit down sometime during this
next week and go over it all yourselves too.  IT IS ALL ONLINE!
 Isn’t that fabulous?  To get you started….would you please watch
at least a few of these videos found here?
https://www.lds.org/youth/learn/train?lang=eng
By watching these videos…I really started to
grasp onto the concept of ‘Teaching like the Savior taught’ idea and it all
clicked in my head…like a lightbulb went off!! Like…why haven’t we been
doing this all along?
Now, that said.  It is going to take a lot of
preparation spiritually on your end,  when it comes time to teach. I would
encourage you to start preparing at least the Sunday BEFORE you are
scheduled to teach…by praying about the material that you should discuss and
by studying the recommended scriptures for the following week.
Each month is given a specific topic to discuss.
 As we meet together with ALL of the YW on fast Sundays, someone from the
Presidency will start out the month by introducing and teaching that topic.
 Now, following that, I have given SUGGESTIONS for the following weeks as
what to follow up with.  THIS IS JUST A GUIDELINE with outlines that I
have pulled from lds.org.  You are encouraged to prepare and teach with
the sprit.  
Let me give you an example.  For the month of
January – there are actually 5 outlines to choose from for the month but there
are actually only 3 Sunday’s where we’ll be meeting together, because of Ward
Conference.  So…according to my ‘guideline’ the two outlines that were
left out on the teaching schedule were ‘What are the roles of the Holy Ghost’
and ‘Who am I, and who can I become’.  Both VERY important topics.
 So….if you look at the schedule and see that it is SUGGESTED that you
teach on ‘Why is Jesus Christ important in my life?’ BUT….you feel inspired
to teach on “What are the roles of the Holy Ghost’…because that is what
you feel your girls need to discuss…THEN PLEASE SWITCH AND TEACH on what you
feel prompted to teach on.
Does that make sense?  I made up this lesson
schedule JUST as a guideline, to sort of get us going.  It is up to you
though to go online…..check out each month….check out ALL OF THE
OUTLINES included for that month….and then go from there.  All of
that info can be found here:
https://www.lds.org/youth/learn/yw?lang=eng
If you look on the left hand side..it is all
organized according to each month and you just click on that month and it all
pops up.  You will probably want to BOOKMARK this link as you will be
visiting it OFTEN this year! This is where you can also find all of the
scriptures to use as well as video and updated materials.
PLEASE let me know if you have any questions at
all.  We will discuss this a little further at our BOARD MEETING on
Jan. 14th at 9AM at MY HOUSE so PLEASE be sure to attend!
Thanks for all you do ladies.  I am excited
about the NEW YEAR and working with our awesome Young Women!!!
xoxo
Marci
 

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  26. I sure would appreciate a copy of your schedule and any ideas for teaching the new Come, Follow Me lessons. I was just called to teach the 12-13 yr olds in Sunday School. Thank you, so much. luvsmnry@aol.com

  34. I would also love to jave a copy of your schedule.thank ypu for your blog. You inspire me to put more effort in servingthe young women. This is my email crazenocks@yahoo.com

    A big thank you.
    From the Philippines.

  39. Marci, I'd like to add my voice to all who have thanked you for sharing your wonderful YW ideas. Your efforts are much appreciated. Could I ask for a copy of your teaching schedule? Thanks! teragram24@gmail.com

  45. I would love a copy of the outline, it would save me SO much time in between everything else thank you! amandapeckphotography at gmail dot com

  47. Your blog is fabulous! You have such amazing ideas! If you could send me your schedule for 2013 lessons that would be great, I need all the help I can get! Email is: hhcoopmitch@yahoo.com

    Thanks,
    Heather

  57. In our ward we are letting the youth choose which outlines are taught for each month in our byc. They look at the different outlines pray about their class they come together and choose. They also choose which outlines are taught in sunday school. It has been an amazing spiritual experience. This way we are teaching exactly what they want.

  60. I am curious how you went about asking the girls which outline topics they wanted to learn from since we were asked to address this with our class presidencies. Did you give them the list for the year and let them choose what they felt like they needed the most?

    • To start out…I just came up with the basic guideline to go by. As we have our monthly class presidency meetings, we will discuss the topics with the girls and change and modify things as needed. I felt that we just needed something to sort of get us going….

  69. I too wouldn't mind a copy of your schedule. I do have a question for you and anyone else who wants to comment. how are you going to get the scriptures and stories etc to the girls before each week so that they will study the information? I thought about printing a study notebook—-with scripture references in it etc—-I don't know……..any other ideas?
    Thanks for your help!

    • Nancy…I'm thinking of maybe having the adivsors/teachers email the girls mid-week with some scriptures they can study before Sunday. Still not quite sure. Was thinking about making up a notebook for them as well but would probably just leave it blank inside so they can take notes as they'd like. That…and I am too overwhelmed to fill it all out with the scripture references as of now 🙂 So much to do at the beginning of the year it seems like, huh? xoxo

  72. Marci I have made a schedule for our new year. I would love to see yours to compare! I think I live kinda by you! I would love to get together with you and share ideas maybe would could share some of our stuff for New Beginnings also. Just a thought.
    email me at audrey06@me.com
    thanks so much

  78. I would love a copy of your lesson schedule I have been so perplexed trying to figure how this will all work…thanks for all of your wonderful posts.
    send to yw@jacksons.cc

    Thanks, Gina

  83. Hi I would love a copy bfinlayson@comcast.net, Also do you live in the Mesa area? My son is serving in Scottsdale, but had been in mesa for most of His mission. Best Mission ever!!! I will forever be grateful to the people of AZ they take such good care of the missionaries.

  84. I would love a copy of your schedule as well. My email is shancs2000@yahoo. I love reading your blog and your YW ideas – I think they have relly helped my lessons!

  97. Thanks so much for sharing your ideas and talents. I would love a copy of the schedule you created. I have done something similar for the first three months and would like some input. Have a great year! Linda lcrosby7@tampabay.rr.com

  102. Yes, I'd love to see what you have. I am a planner, so this is a new challenge for me, but I'd love to get a "guideline" for my leaders. jw4thyw at gmail.com

  106. Yes please, jkeagar@yahoo.com. I sent you a message on Facebook too. I am looking for the links to your Leadership Pie that you did. Is that something you would share with me? I would love it. I am excited for this new curriculum too. I am a little intimidated but am ready to get started. Thanks for all that you do. I love all of your ideas!

  107. Yep, me too. I LOVE your blog and your YW ideas! You can't believe how seeing and reading some of your ideas have helped me. I'd love to have a copy of your schedule/suggestions. I'm pretty stressed about this big change but hopefully I'll catch the spirit of it like you did. 🙂 michellehturner@gmail.com

  111. Yes i would like to see what others are doing as well. We are having everyone teach one month at a time. That way the teacher can choose what she best feels the class needs to hear, and then she can be prepared with all the topics and go from there is she wants. It is super hard to wrap your head on how it all should work, so i look forward to all the extra ideas. Mmheiney@gmail.com

  112. Hi Marci,

    Thank you for all the ideas you share for YW Leaders. They are amazing and a great help.

    Could you please send me the 2013 Lesson/Teaching Schedule. I appreciate your help.

    skcchelan@aol.com

  114. Yes, yes, and yes. I would definitely love to get a copy of your teaching schedule as a guideline. I, like you, am a "not good at change" type of person. I've looked into the new curriculum here and there but haven't really spent enough time, like I should. You can be sure I will continue following your blog, faithfully! sayer13@hotmail.com