The Create a Pacing Guide Training is a resource that can help those responsible for creating pacing guides. For anyone who has created a pacing guide, this is a challenging task but so critical. By creating this pacing guide for teachers, you free them up to focus on preparing meaningful learning experiences for their students. Then they do not have to use precious, limited lesson prep time to also make pacing decisions.
This training includes principles to help you make decisions as well as a step-by-step guide and a case study for one way you might approach this important task. Watch this video to see how this guide and case study might help you.
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1. What resources are available for creating a pacing guide?
Pacing guide worksheets are available for each Seminary Teacher Manual. These worksheets can be used by those creating pacing guides to create a schedule of lessons. This schedule can then be incorporated into a format that is easier for teachers to read and follow. These pacing guide worksheets can be downloaded from the Seminary Course Materials Page and in the S&I Help Center.
Watch this video for ideas on how to use the pacing guide worksheet:
Additionally, area offices can request a license for Adobe Acrobat Pro. This software allows you to adjust the PDF to only include the lessons scheduled in the pacing guide. By doing this, areas can reduce printing costs and the page count of the manuals they provide for teachers.
To see how to use Adobe Acrobat Pro to organize pages in a PDF that matches your pacing guide, watch this video:
For more information about licenses for Adobe Acrobat Pro see this memo.
For more information on printing manuals, see this post on the S&I Help Center.
2. How do I include teachings of Church leaders into a seminary pacing guide?
Although Teachings of Church Leaders is an important category in the Life Preparation lessons, it can be easily overlooked when creating a pacing guide. To learn about the lessons in this category and for some suggestions on how to include them in your pacing guide, see this video:
3. How can I help teachers Use the "Template: Teachings of Church Leaders" resource?
As inservice leaders create training plans, they may want to schedule an inservice to help teachers use the “Template: Teachings of Church Leaders”. See the video below for one way you might approach this inservice.
Here is the presentation you could use: