Teaching Sunday School with Questions | An Interview with Kevin Jones

Kevin Jones currently serves as a counselor in the bishopric, but 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).

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

[chrisblanc]

This was such an interesting conversation!! Packed full of useful info to help teachers up their game! Thank you both!!