As a Christian school teacher, you want your students to love God with their minds. So, you work to help your students apply a Biblical perspective to the course content you teach. This is a challenge. To meet this challenge, target student application of a Biblical perspective. This tutorial can help!



Does targeting Biblical perspective work? Yes! (teacher testimonials)

How can you increasingly target Biblical perspective?

1. Start by journaling for 5 or more minutes on "What's important about your students applying a Biblical perspective to the content you teach?"
   
2. Read the 12 goals listed below for targeting Biblical perspective.
   
3. Select 1 or more goals.
   
4. Use the Action Step Bank to write down your goal(s) and the action steps you can take to achieve each goal. Make your action steps specific and bite size.
   
5. Review your action step list and commit to completing 1 action within the next 5 work days. Ask a colleague to give you the support, encouragement, and accountability you need to complete your action steps.
   
6. Take action.
   
7. Talk with your colleague about your progress. As appropriate, use a protocol (GROW Process).
   
8. Repeat steps 5-7 until you have completed all the action steps you wrote down.

12 goals for targeting Biblical perspective:

1. Ask God to help students understand and apply a Biblical perspective to course content.
   
2. Increase your commitment to helping students love God with their minds.
   
3. Focus on students applying a Biblical perspective to course content they have mastered (not mastering course content).
   
4. Determine current and desired performance levels for you and your students.
   
5. Brainstorm with a colleague about ways to help students apply a Biblical perspective.
   
6. Develop lesson plans that target students applying a Biblical perspective to course content.
   
7. Provide value-added content by teaching students new Biblical perspective content and/or helping them make connections between what they are studying and Bible knowledge they already have.
   
8. Provide time in class for students to apply a Biblical perspective to course content.
   
9. Measure student application of a Biblical perspective.
   
10. Use assessment data to modify instruction.
    
11. Share with others how students are applying a Biblical perspective to course content.
    
12. Identify factors that hinder student application of a Biblical perspective. Take action to alleviate these factors.

Target Biblical perspective. Today.