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The missing curriculum |
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By Dr. Christian Overman in Home School Enrichment, May/June 2010
Many things have changed since 1721. Some things, like men’s white powdered wigs and women’s corsets, we can live without. But some things have gone out of fashion that we really need to recover.
1721 was the year Jonathan Edwards was graduated from the Collegiate School at New Haven, known today as Yale University. But before Edwards and his classmates could exit Yale, whether to work as pastors or merchants, they were all tested in a particular field of study that has since disappeared from virtually every school in America: the practical art of God-centered work.
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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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