Sunday, September 27, 2020

using my teacher voice

 This morning it was my turn to facilitate our adult Sunday school class.  We are still meeting by Zoom and sometimes that creates some awkward moments.  Ours is a discussion class with everyone chiming in.  We are a very opinionated group.  After last week's class (I didn't lead last week) someone complained to me that one particular person had monopolized too much of the conversation (she had) and asked me if I could get her to talk less this week.  Zoom is a wonderful program when you can't meet in person but sometimes it's hard to keep things equitable.  So I gave it some thought and decided to take the class back to the basics.  At the beginning of the class I told them I had some ground rules for our session today.  I told them, very nicely of course, that it would help me if they would raise their hands when they wanted to speak.  I also reserved the right to cut someone off when they had made their point to give others a chance to comment.  It worked like a charm if I do say so myself, and hopefully no one's feelings were hurt.  The person who is leading next week called me this evening to tell me she plans to use the same guidelines.  Isn't it fun when grade school rules still work with adults?

No comments:

Post a Comment