The Learning Model

    The learning model is an efficient way to learn, and to teach. It combines faith and study to improve learning speed and retention. By using the learning model steps of accepting personal responsibility, preparing, participating, teaching others, and pondering and applying what we learn, we learn faster and more clearly. Because the application of the learning model involves preparation before class, involvement during class, and pondering after class, the things we learn become a part of our lives.

    We can see this model at work in Sunday School. It isn't spelled out, but all the elements are there. In reading the material ahead of time, we are preparing for the discussion and inviting the spirit to teach us. During class, our participation is essential in both teaching others and helping the spirit to teach us. In this way everyone is edified. After the class, is the principles are discussed as a family at home, be it over supper or in family home evening on Monday, the principles learned in class are further cemented in our minds.