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Focus & Equip (2009.01): How can a scorecard help you increase focus on your mission?

09/01/09 08:19
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  1. What is coaching?
  2. What could you work on with a coach?
  3. How can a scorecard help you increase focus on your mission?
  4. Pay attention to your goals
  5. Ensure a common understanding of expectations and definitions
  6. What 3 types of assessment will you use?
  7. Students say questions help them make connections
  8. Video: Biblical perspective assessment helps
  9. Have your students do reflective writing
  10. Video: DEAL with student learning needs
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Focus & Equip (2008.12): Encourage reflective practice

05/12/08 08:46
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  • What's it take to carry out your God-given mission?
  • Encourage reflective practice
  • Regarding a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum, what are the opportunities/problems?
  • Require your students to make connections
  • Show your students what using a Biblical perspective looks like
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Focus & Equip (2008.11): How can measurement help you increase focus on your mission?

06/11/08 14:38
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  • What’s your mission?
  • How can measurement help you increase focus on your mission?
  • Get support, encouragement, and accountability
  • Teachers document Biblical principles in curriculum maps
  • Here’s a list of questions you can ask your students
  • Students grapple with shalom
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Focus & Equip (2008.10): Want to achieve your goals?

03/10/08 08:17
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  • What problems/opportunities are you passionate about & blessed by God to address?
  • Want to achieve your goals?
  • SMARTen up your goals
  • Address the personal lives of your staff
  • Develop the big picture of your subject area
  • Make your assessment prompt student-friendly
  • Want to turn your classroom into a hotbed of discussion?
  • Tell narratives and faith stories
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Focus & Equip (2008.09): What do you need to KeepStartStop doing?

08/09/08 08:07
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  • How has God blessed you pursue His calling?
  • What do you need to KeepStartStop doing?
  • Secure resources—then start
  • Use staff meetings to reflect on philosophy
  • What 3 Biblical principles will you help your students understand?
  • Use an essential question to focus instruction
  • Ask your students difficult questions
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Focus & Equip (2008.08): Treat Biblical perspective like you really want your students to learn it

11/08/08 07:43
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  • Use questions to help your client clarify God’s calling
  • Implement a staff stewardship plan
  • What Biblical integration is an isn't
  • Students can connect course content and Biblical teaching
  • Treat Biblical perspective like you really want your students to learn it
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Focus & Equip (2008.07): How can you increase your focus on your mission?

12/06/08 07:24
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  • People grow as they take responsibility
  • How can you increase your focus on your mission?
  • Get organized
  • What 3 behaviors will you model?
  • Asking questions doesn't always work
  • Teach and assess Biblical perspective
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Focus & Equip (2008.06): Answer 8 questions as you plan strategically

06/06/08 08:27
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  • Growing is more about motivation than information
  • Principals, use the Rule of 3
  • Answer 8 questions as you plan strategically
  • Take a free Christian education tutorial
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Focus & Equip (2008.05): How focused are you on your God-given mission?

09/05/08 08:40
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  • To cultivate a coaching culture, use a set of questions
  • How focused are you on your God-given mission?
  • Video: How to write a SMART goal
  • How can you help your students understand that worldview affects how a person answers questions?
  • Using questions works!
  • Tutorial: Use questions to help students understand and apply a Bilbical perspective
  • Video: Cooperative learning helps students connect course content and Biblical teaching
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Focus & Equip (2008.04): Identify, measure, then take action

08/04/08 07:49
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  • As a Christian coach, you're free
  • Identify, measure, then take action
  • To help students make connections, what are the vital teacher behaviors?
  • Assessment helps students apply a Biblical perspective
  • How can you give your students more practice?

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Focus & Equip (2008.03): How do you contribute to mission achievement?

11/03/08 08:17
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  • To encourage and empower others, listen
  • How do you contribute to mission achievement?
  • Know where you are and where you want to go
  • What’s success?
  • Questions helped my students apply a Biblical perspective
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Focus & Equip (2008.02): “And” learning, not “or” learning

06/02/08 07:56
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  • How can you encourage others?
  • “And” learning, not “or” learning
  • Assign qualified staff, get your staff qualified, or recruit qualified staff
  • News in Brief
  • Biblical perspective teacher training standards developed
  • Assessment helps students more deeply connect what they study, their lives, and a Biblical perspective
  • How can you design assessments so that your students connect a Biblical perspective with their lives?
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Focus & Equip (2008.01): What does it take to achieve your mission?

15/01/08 08:34
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  • Need to focus? Get coaching!
  • What does it take to achieve your mission?
  • Draw out, don’t put in
  • YWAM staff deepen LIFE skills
  • Is it important for your students to apply a Biblical perspective to course content?
  • How can your use your questions effectively?
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