home teaching

Noun

home teaching (uncountable)

1. (Mormonism) The responsibility of the priesthood in which a pair of priesthood holders visit another member's family to teach them LDS doctrine and monitor their well-being.
   • When it came time for me to be ordained a teacher in the Aaronic Priesthood, I told the bishop I would accept a home teaching assignment.1994 May, Robert D. Armstrong, “My Very Senior Companion”, in New Era, retrieved 26 Apr 2009, page 46

   Synonyms:

   block teaching, ward teaching

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see home, teaching.
   • John C. Holt, publisher of the newsletter Growing Without Schooling, believes that excluding families with disabled youngsters, about 10,000 to 20,000 families throughout the country have elected home teaching.1984 February 9, Jane Wollman, “TEACHING AT HOME WITH HELP OF COMPUTERS”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015