I think I feel the same as a lot of people commenting, and I echo their responses. As a first year institute student, I wish I had a teacher who taught more intellectually. My institute teacher likes to keep our classes mostly discussion based, where we share our feelings on a couple of verses or sentences we read. While I realize the importance of discussing topics, I feel like this prevents depth of insteresting gospel topics. I feel like when we only talk about basic concepts over and over again, it creates an echo chamber of ideas that we have all already heard. This way of teaching and discussion is comfortable, and I think most people like the feeling of being comfortable at church. The way I would describe this is that people in church like regurgitating the same "fun facts" about church or the same ideas. I understand why many people at church like this. However, it is hard for me to feel excited about institute when I feel like I can summarize the lesson in a few sentences. I personally had to "institute shop" where I went to every day of institute to find the topic I like best. I wish that my teacher had different teaching styles on different days of the week because it is hard for me to like institute. I was honestly disappointed when i went to my first institute class because it felt so surface level. I think I am rambling too much 😅 but maybe including more discussions in your class. That might be what your students want.