Questions that Build Foundation

If you watched Session 1, you now know why questions fail. This session is where you start fixing it.

The first two levels of Bloom's Taxonomy — Remember and Understand — are the foundation of every great Bible lesson. They're also the levels most teachers skip because they feel too simple. This session makes the case that simple is exactly where you need to start, and shows you how to do it without boring your students or wasting time.

Here's what you'll learn in this session:

Remember questions establish the facts. They seem obvious, but your students often don't know what you think they know — especially if they're new to church, new to the faith, or just haven't heard this particular passage before. When you skip this level, you're building on air.

Understand questions move students from "I know what happened" to "I know what it means." This is where comprehension is built — and where most lessons fall apart. Students nod, teachers move on, and the meaning never actually takes root.

You'll also learn the single most underused teaching technique in most Bible classes: wait time. Research shows that waiting just five to seven seconds after asking a question dramatically improves the quality of student responses. It sounds almost too simple. But it works.

By the end of this session, you'll have three Remember questions and three Understand questions written for your very next lesson. That's your homework before Session 3 — not just to write them, but to use them in class and notice what happens.

In Session 3, you'll add the Apply level — this is where knowledge becomes life change. But it only works because of what you're building right here.

Your workbook has everything you need: a reflection worksheet to help you examine your current habits around these two levels, and an application worksheet with tiered action steps ranging from a quick 10-minute exercise to a multi-week practice you can build into your teaching rhythm.

The foundation matters. What you build here holds everything else up.

Helpful to know: The six questions you write during this session carry forward into Session 3 and 4. You're not just watching videos — you're building a complete lesson plan as you go.