One thing is for certain, with the twenty-five minute class schedule, people must arrive prepared to engaged. But what can a teacher do to encourage that?

1. Send a single “What?” question mid-week, not a reading assignment.
Most teachers ask people to “read the chapters.” Almost no one does. Instead, send one specific context question tied to the coming lesson's anchor passage — something concrete and answerable, not abstract (“Where was Paul when he wrote this, and what had just happened to him?”). A single, curiosity-triggering question gets far more engagement than a chapter range, and it does the “gaining context” work for them before class even starts — so class time can move straight to So what and Now what.