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What makes Christian education Christian? |
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By Deborah Carpenter in CORE, NICS online magazine, December 10, 2008
A student is not above his teacher, and when he has matured, he will be like his teacher.
From another perspective, the worldview from which teachers teach is the worldview students will have. Of course, students have more than one teacher, and it is difficult to say which teacher’s or teachers’ worldview each student will develop.
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The Old Testament Template |
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By Landa Cope from The Old Testament Template (2006) which is also available online at Template Institute Press
"Throughout history, people of faith have thought and acted in ways that influenced communities and nations…. Martin Luther is recorded to have said that a gospel that does not deal with the issues of the day is not the Gospel at all. …you'll discover the Biblical thinking that addresses the issues of the 21st century in an effective and redemptive way."
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Cooperative learning helps students connect course content and Biblical teaching |
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Anda Foxwell, 6th grade social studies teacher at Christian Academy in Japan, reflects on her Biblical perspective unit, concluding that having students work together helps students connect course content and Biblical teaching.
What instructional strategies do you use to help students connect content and Biblical teaching? |
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Pleasure...a channel of adoration |
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By CS Lewis in Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer I have tried...to make every pleasure into a channel of adoration. I don't mean simply by giving thanks for it. Once must of course give thanks, but I mean something different. How shall I put it? |
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How can faith-based schools keep the faith? |
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By Nancy Pearcy in Christian School Education, Volume 10, Number 1, 2006-7, ACSI
"I lost my faith at an evangelical college." As a legislative aide in the nation's capitol, Tom is no stranger to ideological conflict. Yet he confronted the toughest challenge to his faith while studying at a respected Christian college. In classes on sociology, philosophy, and biblical interpretation, Tom recalls, the teachers exposed students to secular criticisms of religion. But "they did little to present an orthodox biblical response to those criticisms." Tom even met privately with teachers, asking how they related their religious belief to their professional work. "Not one could give me an answer. It became clear that they had only a tenuous understanding of how to reconcile their faith with their academic disciplines." |
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The richness of creation: Key questions |
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By Dr. Arthur Jones © 1995 Key questions are listed to stimulate thinking about fifteen (15) aspects of creation: quantitative, spatial, motion, physical, biological, psycho-sensory, formational, aesthetic, linguistic, rational, social, economic, legal, ethical, and confessional. |
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Christianity and culture |
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By J. Gresham Machen in the Princeton Thological Review, Vol. XI, No. 1, 1913, p. 1. One of the greatest of the problems that has agitated the Church is the problem of the relation between knowledge and piety, between culture and Christianity. This problem has appeared first of all in the presence of two tendencies in the Church—the scientific or academic tendency, and what may be called the practical tendency. |
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The worldview struggle surrounding Christian schools |
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By J. P. Moreland in World Report, Summer 2002, published by ACSI Every fall Christian school administrators look forward to filling empty classrooms with students, empty teaching positions with faculty, empty athletic facilities with winning teams, and empty coffers with welcome tuition money. Yet a pervasive vacuum can chill our hallways despite high achievement in all these areas of effort. None of them ultimately addresses our mission; none of them reaches our highest goal. Only a fully developed Christian worldview can fill our empty students…. |
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Visual Valet - Personal assistant for Christian thinkers and teachers |
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  It is hard to find students – or teachers - who have been instructed on how to develop as a Christian thinker. The subject is incomprehensibly large because it involves everything in creation as well as the infinite Creator. Busy teachers and maturing students need something to help them get started. The Visual Valet is just such a personal assistant. Though it may not be sophisticated enough for philosophers and educational theoreticians, it will assist you in becoming a distinctively Christian thinker and teacher. Like a Swiss army knife, it may be incomplete and unsuitable for large projects, but extremely valuable for many daily tasks. |
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Biblical perspective teacher training standards and benchmarks |
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Developing a life-changing Biblical pespective in all the classrooms of a school is a complex task. These standards identify many of the components and can help an individual teacher or school administrator identify areas of strength that need to be encouraged or weakness that need to be developed. |
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Discussion starters |
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By Deborah Carpenter from Biblical Integration Ideas
Students love to talk. Some will talk about anything. Others will wait until they feel they’ve got something to say. The beauty of a well crafted discussion starter is that most students will feel like they have something significant to contribute.
Ideally, a Biblically based discussion starter helps students ponder and process issues pertaining to the topic being taught and the Christian worldview. Some question may not appear at first blush to be Biblical, but will turn out to be in discussion. |
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Standar Pelatihan Guru Dengan Sudut Pandang alkitabiah |
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oleh Michael Essenburg dan Harold Klassen |
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Christianity and culture |
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By J. Gresham Machen, September 20, 1912 One of the greatest of the problems that have agitated the Church is the problem of the relation between knowledge and piety, between culture and Christianity. This problem has appeared first of all in the presence of two tendencies in the Church—the scientific or academic tendency, and what may be called the practical tendency. Some men have devoted themselves chiefly to the task of forming right conceptions as to Christianity and its foundations. To them no fact, however trivial, has appeared worthy of neglect; by them truth has been cherished for its own sake, without immediate reference to practical consequences. Some, on the other hand, have emphasized the essential simplicity of the gospel. |
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A Christian worldview: Putting on our spiritual armor |
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By Nancy Pearcey, PBU Today, Summer 2007, p. 8-11 We typically hear Christians say that the Bible is the authoritative source of truth for faith and morals. But we don’t always hear Christians say that the Bible gives a framework for the rest of knowledge as well—for law and politics, for business and economics, for the arts and humanities. |
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Why Johnny doesn't think like a Christian and what we can do about it |
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There are a lot of related questions that we could consider such as: “What does it mean to think like a Christian?” and “Why should we think like a Christian?” However, I am assuming that thinking like a Christian is critically important.
Every student is different so there will be a variety of different reasons, why Johnny doesn’t think like a Christian. However, all the reasons are a combination of three basic reasons: Johnny won’t, Johnny can’t, and Johnny doesn’t know how. We’ll consider what we can do about each of these situations as well as reflect on what it means to “think like a Christian.” |
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The power of words |
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By Elizabeth Youmans, Ed.D. © Principia, February 2001 In order for modern day Christians to appropriate the mind of Christ in education, we must first establish a Biblically-sound philosophy or world view of education. Christian parents and teachers are embattled in a spiritual and cultural war for the very hearts and minds of our youth, and need spiritual weapons to wage the war. |
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Biblical knowing and teaching |
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By Dr. Donald Oppewal, a Calvin College Monograph, 1985 This monography addresses professional educators who wish consciously to relate educational decisions to a biblical world view. ...It will focus mainly on two matters: a theory of knowing and a classroom methodology which is compatible with it. |
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Christian framework |
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Christian thinking rests on four great cornerstones that are summarized by the Visual Valet: creation, fall, redemption, and fulfillment. Because all we know of God can be related to this simple framework, we can keep expanding our knowledge and understanding for the rest of our lives. A few ideas to illustrate the infinite possibilities when considering an infinite God are included. |
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Biblical integration guide |
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Many Christians have little experience bringing non-Biblical material together with the Bible, so it is helpful to have something to suggest where they should look for connections. The Visual Valet suggests connections with four words: reflections, distortions, revelations, and applications. Some general suggestions are included. |
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An approach to worldview integration |
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By Dr. Marti MacCullough from Christian School Education (CSE), Volume 6, Issue 1 "I have coined some names for three possible models for biblical integration: parallel model, interpersonal model, and integrating core model. Identify the integration model represented by the dialogue of each of the following Christian school teachers who were asked the question, “Do you practice biblical integration?” Then decide which of the three models you practice. This article addresses the third model, the integrating core model." |
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Worldview integration: A key teaching tool |
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By Dr. Marti MacCullough from Christian School Education (CSE), Volume 6, Issue 1 Activities, sample plans and a resource list to supplement the material in An approach to worldview integration |
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Making the spiritual switch |
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By Russell Kelfer The first in a series of lessons about..."the process of taking that which God had created or allowed in the physical realm and overlaying it with spiritual principles which revealed the real reason God created that object the way He did." |
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Private-public dualism |
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By Martha E. MacCullough, Ed.D. with permission from PBU Today, Spring 2005 The challenge to exercising the Christian mind in all of life and learning. |
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