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What 3 things will you put on your course handouts?
You want to target Biblical perspective. So, you decide to include Biblical perspective on your course handouts.
 
Question: What 3 things will you put on your course handouts?
 
Here are sample things you could put on your handouts:

• A personal testimony that includes your passion about Biblical perspective.
• Bible verses that you want your students to learn. (I like Genesis 1.26-28, Micah 6.8, and Romans 12.2.)
• Biblical principles you want your students to learn. Here are 3 examples: All truth is God’s truth. Be content. Take care of God’s creation.

Question: What other things can you put on your course handouts?
 
Target Biblical perspective. Put 3 things on your course handouts. Today.

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How can peer coaching help your students use relevant Biblical principles?
Your 8th graders have finished the rough draft of their essays. The prompt required them to connect course content and a relevant Biblical principle.
 
Question: How can you help your students use a relevant Biblical principle?
 
Answer: By having them reflect on their rough drafts. By having them reflect on the relevance of the Biblical principle they used.
 
Question: How can you do this?
 
Answer: By having your students coach each other by asking the following 5 questions:

1. What’s your thesis?
2. What Biblical principle did you use to support your thesis?
3. What’s satisfying/unsatisfying about the Biblical principle you used?
4. On a scale of 1-5 (5 being high), how relevant is the Biblical principle you used?
5. What question do you want to ask ____ (teacher’s name) about your Biblical principle?

Help your students use relevant Biblical principles. Use peer coaching. Today.

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Empower others to help students connect course content, the Bible, and life
Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can you design assessments so that your students connect a Biblical perspective with their lives?”
 
Define: Get the facts defined.
In the past week or unit, what connections did your student make between…

1. Course content and life?
2. Course content and the Bible?

Respond: Get the facts responded to in terms of feelings/experiences.

1. What’s comfortable/uncomfortable about having your students connect course content and life? course content and the Bible? course content, the Bible, and life?
2. What’s comfortable/uncomfortable for your students in terms of connecting course content and life? course content and the Bible? course content, the Bible, and life?

Analyze: Get the facts, feelings, and experiences analyzed.

1. How does making connections impact student learning?
2. How does connecting course content and the Bible help students apply a Biblical perspective?
3. How might connecting course content, the Bible, and life help students apply a Biblical perspective?

What’s next?: Get next steps considered.

1. What questions can you ask your students?
2. How can you use questions to help your students love God?