Assessment
Target Biblical Perspective

How can you learn to nurture your students’ faith even more?

14/08/09 07:30
As a Christian school teacher, you want to nurture your students’ faith. So, you want to help your students:
  • Understand a Biblical perspective of what they study.
  • Apply a Biblical perspective to what they study.
Question: How can you learn to nurture your students’ faith even more?

Answer: By reflecting on questions. By reflecting on questions about understanding and applying Biblical perspective. Here are 65 questions. Read More...

How can your teachers help your students make connections?

03/07/09 07:12
To get an idea of how your teachers can more effectively help students what they study and what the Bible teaches, complete the following assessment. Next, use your assessment data to develop action plans. Read More...

Help your students connect what they study and creation-fall-redemption-restoration

30/05/09 08:41
Want to help your students to better connect the course content and Biblical principles they study to God’s story of creation-fall-redemption-restoration? Good. Reflecting on a set of DRAW questions can help you determine what action steps to take. What does “DRAW” stand for?
  • Define: Get the facts defined.
  • Respond: Get the facts responded to in terms of feelings/experiences.
  • Analyze: Get the facts, feelings, and experiences analyzed.
  • What’s next?: Get next steps considered.

As a result of reflecting on the following set of DRAW questions, you will identify 1 or more SMART action steps you will take to help your students better connect the course content and Biblical principles they study to God’s story of creation-fall-redemption-restoration. Read More...

How would you/your school develop a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum?

03/03/09 16:39
As a result of getting a Christ-centered education, we want our students to love God with their minds. So, we want our students to develop a Christ-centered worldview. One way to do to this is by having our students experience a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum:
  • Guaranteed: All teachers at a given Christian school teach specified Bible content in each subject they teach.
  • Viable: All teachers have sufficient instructional time to teach the specified Bible content.
  • Biblical perspective: The specified Bible content is formatted as Biblical principles. Each Biblical principle is supported by at least 3 Bible passages.
  • Curriculum: The specified Bible content is documented in the curriculum.
To move forward on developing a Biblical perspective curriculum, you’ve reflected on 5 key questions:
  1. Regarding developing a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum, what are the opportunities/problems?
  2. What’s your stakeholders’ perspective of a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum?
  3. Where are you/your school in terms of having a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum?
  4. Regarding developing a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum, what’s your/your school’s level of motivation?
  5. To develop a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum, what do you/your school need to keep doing? start doing? stop doing?
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Use 8 questions to reflect on a subject area

27/01/09 19:05
Targeting Biblical perspective is vital. To get an idea of where your academic department is in terms of targeting Biblical perspective, reflect on 8 questions:
  1. What’s God’s purpose? 
  2. What’s wrong?
  3. What difference does Jesus make? 
  4. What will you do?
  5. What does the your department target?
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Use 9 questions to reflect on Biblical perspective in your course

12/01/09 11:49
Targeting Biblical perspective is vital. To get an idea of where you are in terms of targeting Biblical perspective, reflect on 9 questions:
  1. What kind of people do you want your students to be?
  2. What do you want your students to understand about God and His creation? 
  3. What’s your vision? 
  4. What do you target?
  5. Specifically, what do you want your students to connect?
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What 3 types of assessment will you use?

12/12/08 08:07
You know that assessment helps students learn. So, you decide to use a variety of assessments to help your students deepen their understanding and application of a Biblical perspective.
 
Question: What 3 types of assessment will you use? Read More...

What energizes you?

04/10/08 12:34
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Kim Essenburg, English 10 teacher at Christian academy in Japan, responds:
 
What energizes me when I'm wondering whether teaching is worth the effort? Finding out that students are learning significant things in my class. So, I arrange to get a big dose of encouragement every time I give a test. Read More...

Teach and assess Biblical perspective

06/06/08 21:26
Help your students develop a Christ-centered worldview during class by teaching Biblical perspective lessons and giving Biblical perspective assessments.

Use 8 questions to reflect on your Biblical perspective lesson and assessment results

03/06/08 15:11
You’ve designed and taught your Biblical perspective lesson, a lesson that prepared your students to demonstrate their understanding/application of a Biblical perspective. You've also given your students the Biblical perspective assessment. Good!
 
Now, leverage your work by reflecting on it. Read More...

How does your Christian worldview affect your educational practice?

12/05/08 16:06
Worldview affects educational practice. How does your Christian worldview affect your educational practice?When responding to this question, teachers at Christian Academy in Japan indicated that their Christian worldview affects.... Read More...

To help students make connections, what are the vital teacher behaviors?

14/03/08 07:13
We want our students to honor Christ and impact the world from Him. Consequently, we want to nurture faith in Christ. One way we do this in Christian schools is by helping our students connect what they study with what the Bible teaches.

To help students make connections, what are the vital teacher behaviors? Read More...

Test question encourages students to apply Biblical perspective

09/02/08 13:29
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To cultivate reflection and increase the likelihood that her students will connect course content and a Biblical perspective, Kim Esssenburg (English 10 teacher at Christian Academy in Japan) puts the following question on each of her unit tests: “What is something significant you learned this unit that you did not have an opportunity to demonstrate on this test?” Read More...

Use 5 questions to reflect on a unit

19/01/08 14:15
Reflection can help you target Biblical perspective. After teaching a Biblical perspective unit, use these 5 questions to reflect:
  1. What student learning results excited about?
  2. What were your students studying?
  3. What was the assessment prompt?
  4. How did you prepare your students for it?
  5. What did you learn from teaching your unit?
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Is it important for your students to apply a Biblical perspective to course content?

05/01/08 07:58
Question: Is it important for your students to apply a Biblical perspective to course content?

If you answered “yes,” keep reading. Read More...

How can you close the gap?

10/12/07 07:24
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Kim and Michael Essenburg, missionaries with Christian Reformed World Missions, serve at Christian Academy in Japan. This morning they talked about progress Kim's students are making on applying a Biblical perspective, and then Kim determined her next step. Read More...

You have what you need to help students

06/12/07 12:48
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Tom Postema and Michael Essenburg, missionaries with Christian Reformed World Missions, serve at the Christian Academy in Japan. During their 9:30 meeting today, they talked about helping students understand and apply a Biblical perspective. Then Michael started asking Tom questions. (“As he usually does,” says Tom.) Read More...

How can you equip students to impact the world for Christ?

03/10/07 07:52
You want your students to impact the world for Christ. To carry out this vital task, you know your students will need to apply a Biblical perspective to all of life—including the course content they are studying in your class right now. Read More...

Use assessment data to target Biblical perspective

25/08/07 06:55
Want to increase student understanding and/or application of a Biblical perspective? Use data from 1 Biblical perspective assessment to modify a unit plan (questions, content/skills, assessment, instructional strategies). Read More...

Identify current learning results

17/08/07 18:27
To get an idea of how you can more effectively help students increase their understanding and application of a Biblical perspective, identify current learning results by completing the following self-assessment. Next, use your self-assessment data to develop action plans. Read More...

How does measuring student application of Biblical perspective help?

04/08/07 06:41
Quick Answer: Measuring student application of a Biblical perspective helps students to know how they are doing, how to improve, and what Christian education is about. Read More...

How well do your students understand and use a Biblical perspective of the subject(s) you teach?

14/12/06 07:05
Your goal: For your students to understand a biblical perspective of your subject and to apply it to the course content they have learned. Read More...