Hello, fellow teachers, and welcome to another episode of gospel teaching.

I'm Casey Griffiths.

You know, one experience I had early on in my career, I think really traumatized me.

It happened the first time that I taught a high school seminary class.

I prepared my lesson, but I wasn't aware that because of a quirk in the school schedule,

the class I was teaching

wasn't 75 minutes long, like I thought it would be.

It was 100 minutes long, just 20 minutes short of two hours.

I did everything I prepared in my outline, and there was still 20 minutes left in the lesson.

I was a little dumbstruck, and I wasn't sure what to do with the students, so I stumbled

for a few minutes and I finally just told them that they could have some free time before

the bell ring.

That moment affected me so much that now when I teach, I'm always over-prepared.

I usually get through about half of the material I prep so that I will never run out again.

Now, there may have been no way to have avoided my first teaching catastrophe, and it seems like

cruel and unusual punishment to make any first-year teacher have to hold the attention of a group

of teenagers for 100 minutes. But we can all relieve a little bit of the anxiety that we have by

knowing how to plan for a lesson and being familiar with the resources you have to prepare.

So today we've invited two experts, Mark L. Pace, and Kenneth Alford, to walk us through

the process of lesson preparation. That's the topic on this episode of gospel teaching.

Every disciple of Christ is a teacher.

Whether in the home, at church, or out in the world,

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