Do you want to empower others to focus? Do you want to empower others to think through problems and achieve their goals? Do you want to empower others to get organized, prioritize, and target their strengths?
If you want to empower others, provoke them. Provoke them to reflect.
Help your students connect what they study and creation-fall-redemption-restoration
By Michael B. Essenburg
You want to more effectively help your students connect what they study and God's overarching story of creation-fall-redemption-restoration. So, you want to deepen your own understanding of the connections between what your students study and creation-fall-redemption-restoration.
Question: How can you do this?
Answer: By reflecting on what your students study and then identifying the connections between what your students study and creation-fall-redemption-restoration.
To help your students...deepen your own understanding
By Michael B. Essenburg
You want to more effectively help your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches. So, you want to deepen your own understanding of the connections between what your students study and what the Bible teaches.
Question: How can you do this?
Answer: By identifying 3 things…
At Christian schools, we want our students connecting:
Content/skills and life. We want students connecting ecology with how they dispose of trash.
Content/skills and Biblical principles. We want students connecting decisions made by government with Biblical principles regarding justice and peace.
Biblical principles and life. We want students connecting Biblical principles regarding wealth, love, and the sanctity of life with the movies they watch.
Question: How can you help your students make connections?
Through Christian education, we want students to develop a Christ-centered worldview. One way to do this is to have students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches.
To help their students make connections, teachers at Christian Academy in Japan document in their curriculum maps the Biblical teaching their students will connect with course content/skills
You want your students to develop a Christ-centered worldview. Good. You know that one way to do this is to have students respond to Biblical perspective questions.
What questions can you ask?
You’re excited about teaching in a Christian school. You’re especially excited about helping your students develop a Christ-centered worldview.
Question: In the following 4 scenarios, what exciting things are happening and what’s not happening?
Identify the Biblical teaching you want your students to connect to course content
By Michael B. Essenburg
At Christian schools, we want our students to develop a Christ-centered worldview, to see all of life through the lens of Scripture, to learn about God and His creation. This is a big challenge!
How can you help your students do this during class?
How can you help your students sincerely respond to Biblical perspective questions?
By Michael B. Essenburg
First, let me share what “sincerely respond” means....
Second, let me share what the opposite of “sincerely respond” means. Let me share what “insincerely” and “react” mean....
Now, let me give you a starter list of 10 ways you can help your students sincerely respond to Biblical perspective questions....
3 writing guidelines that help students apply a Biblical perspective
By Michael B. Essenburg
Michael: You seem excited. What’s going on?
Kim: I just read over my 10th grade students’ Cry, the Beloved Country essays. And my students did a better job of applying a Biblical perspective.
Michael: What did they do better?
"How can we help them get this better? ...they don't really seem to understand that they can use a Biblical perspective in math and English and all their other subjects.
Imagine: Your student Patrick is in an accident. Amazingly, he’s OK. Or at least everyone thinks he is. Then his parents notice that Patrick no longer recalls, asks, or writes down questions, three things he used to do. And he doesn’t process questions either. It’s as if he doesn’t hear them when someone speaks or see them when reading.
How does measuring student application of Biblical perspective help?
By Michael B. Essenburg
"Students to know how they are doing, how to improve, and what Christian education is about" but parents, staff, alumni, donors, community members and the school board can all benefit.
I know Christian school students should consider difficult questions like "If God is good, why does He allow suffering?" and "How do you know?" And I know that Christian school students should consider questions like these while they are in a nurturing Christian environment.
In Christian education, your students' objective is to increase their understanding and use of a Biblical perspective of course content. You can help them achieve their objective by asking good questions.
75 questions Christian school teachers should ask—and answer
By Michael B. Essenburg
• Reviews the readers' commitment to helping their students understand a Biblical perspective and apply it to course content
• Identifies a practical way to move forward on that commitment—asking and answering question
Using assessment to develop a Biblical perspective
By Michael B. Essenburg
Students increase their understanding and use of a Biblical perspective as they complete rigorous assessments that require them to connect course content, their lives, and a Biblical perspective.
Student assessment performance increases when students prepare for assessments by having their learning needs addressed.
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