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

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...

To learn more about targeting Biblical perspective, explore these 12 questions

You want your students to understand and apply a Biblical perspective—to connect what they study, the Bible, and their lives. To help your students do this, you know you need to target Biblical perspective even more. So, you want to learn how to do this.

Question: How can you learn more about targeting Biblical perspective?

Answer: By exploring the following list of 12 questions: Read More...

To get started with targeting Biblical perspective, take this self-assessment

You want your students to understand and apply a Biblical perspective—to connect what they study, the Bible, and their lives. So, you want to target Biblical perspective.

Question: How can you get started?

Answer: By taking the following self-assessment. Read More...

Connect God's world, God's Word, and life

Help your students connect God's world, God's Word, and their lives.

Develop the big picture of your subject area

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Harold Klassen of Transforming Teachers emphasizes the importance of understanding a Biblical perspective of your subject area.

Making sense of any idea is always easier if you know where it fits in the big picture.
Knowing where the subject you teach fits in the big picture of God’s purposes and activities, can help you see the connections between your lesson content and God and His word. Helping your students see things from a Biblical perspective becomes an exciting possibility. Read More...

5 ways to help your students develop a Biblical perspective

Everyone has a perspective. On everything. On things like grasshoppers, gasoline prices, glaciers melting, and God. Everyone has way of looking at things. At things like chocolate, character qualities, carbon emissions, and Christ.
 
Every Christian school student has a perspective. And our role as Christian educators is to help each of our students develop a Biblical perspective. Read More...

Teachers, how can you increasingly target Biblical perspective?

Everyone lives out his/her worldview. You live out your worldview in your classroom. As a Christian teacher, how can you increasingly target students understanding and then applying a Biblical perspective to course content and skills? Read More...

Target Biblical perspective

By targeting Biblical perspective, teachers can help student apply a Biblical perspective to what they study.

Biblical perspective teacher training standards developed

The standards are done! Many thanks to the Christian educators (living in Canada, Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, the US, and South Africa) who collaborated to develop 7 teacher training standards. These standards target helping teachers help their K-12 students understand and then apply a Biblical perspective to what they study. Read More...

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

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...

75 questions Christian school leaders should ask—and answer

As a Christian school leader, 2 of your key goals are (1) for your students to understand a biblical perspective of course content and (2) or your students to proficiently apply a biblical perspective to course content. What can you do to achieve your 2 goals? Ask and answer questions. Read More...

What 3 things can you do to help your students?

To help your students increase their understanding and use of a biblical perspective of course content, answer 3 of the following questions. Read More...

Being a Christian does not equal having a Biblical perspective of romanticism

In your English class, you help your students grapple with romanticism and realism, and you ask them to use realism to evaluate romanticism. This involves upper level thinking, and your students do well. Next, you ask your students to use a biblical perspective to evaluate romanticism, and they don’t do as well as. You are puzzled, particularly since both assignments required a similar skill set. You wonder, “Why didn’t they get it?”
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