Teaching Sunday School with Questions | An Interview with Kevin Jones

Kevin Jones currently serves as a bishopric counselor and has
served as a stake executive secretary, high counselor, stake young
single adult advisor, elders quorum president, Young Men president,
Seminary and Institute teacher, and just about any other teacher
calling in the Church. To help members become more effective gospel
teachers, he co-hosts the Teaching Restored podcast and video
series. He is also in the finishing stages of writing a book about
how to use questions when teaching the restored gospel.
Professionally, Kevin is a professional speaker, advisor, and
entrepreneur, having worked with all sizes of businesses on their
culture and employee engagement. He lives at the mouth of the
beautiful Columbia River Gorge outside of Vancouver, Washington,
with his wife and eight kids (although there are only two left at
home). Links Teaching Restored podcast Liz Wiseman: The Power of
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Get 14-day access to the Core Leader Library Highlights 2:45 Kevin
shares his background in teaching and training organizations. He
has done this professionally and within the Church. He always wants
to improve things and help teachers teach. 5:30 Kevin has a podcast
called Teaching Restored. He focuses on how to teach and how to
help people learn. 8:10 The power of questions and preparing good
questions. Everything can change with a good question. 9:50 The
power of binary questions (similar to closed-ended questions). Ways
to use these questions in your teaching and to get to a certain
point. 15:30 There are factual questions. Factual means that there
is a correct answer. These questions are typically ones that we
don’t want to use in a classroom because they are so basic.
However, in some cases they can still be very powerful. 19:00
Explanatory questions and introspective questions. Questions that
make us answer from our heart. 20:20 Building the silence into your
introspective questions. Be ok with the silence in order to go
deep. 22:40 Transformative questions. These are questions that you
don’t plan but they just happen. Questions that change your outlook
on everything. It’s on the learners side whether it's
transformative or not. 26:30 How to use the different kinds of
questions when teaching. Lead with questions instead of content.
29:20 Asking the right kind of questions 34:10 Changing your tone
when asking the question can change the meaning and feeling. You
can also change one or two words in a question to make it more
powerful. 38:00 Working one-on-one and leading each other The
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