Want to help your students to better connect what they study and what the Bible teaches? If so, make sure you can make better connections.
 
Question: How can you do this?
 
By identifying your own learning needs. And then by developing an action plan to meet 1 of your own learning needs.
 
To develop your action plan, ask yourself the following 7 questions. Better yet, invite a colleague to ask you:

1. What subjects do you teach?
2. What excites/concerns you about connecting what you teach and what the Bible teaches? 
3. Which learning needs do you have?
4. Which learning need would you like to meet?
5. What are some ways you could meet this learning need? 
6. What action step will you take to meet this learning need?
7. When will you take this action step?

Bottom line: Meet your own learning needs. Take action. Today.

Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can you help your students understand how you teach from a Biblical perspective?”

Define: Get the facts defined.

1. How do you teach from a Biblical perspective?
2. What do you do to help your students understand how you teach from a Biblical perspective?

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

1. What satisfies/concerns you about how you teach from a Biblical perspective?
2. What satisfies/concerns you about your students’ understanding of how you teach from a Biblical perspective?

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

1. What happens when your students understand how you teach from a Biblical perspective?
2. What helps them understand this?

What’s next?: Get next steps considered.
What will you do to help your students understand how you teach from a Biblical perspective?

Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can you help your students understand what effective application of a Biblical perspective looks like on a classroom assessment?”
 
Define: Get the facts defined.
What do your students think effective application of a Biblical perspective looks like?
 
Respond: Get the facts responded to in terms of feelings/experiences.

1. What’s encouraging/discouraging about your students’ understanding of what effective application of a Biblical perspective looks like?
2. What’s easy/hard about helping your students understand what effective application of a Biblical perspective looks like?

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

1. To what do you attribute your students’ current level of understanding?
2. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being high), how clear are you on what effective application of a Biblical perspective on a classroom assessment looks like?

What’s next?: Get next steps considered.

1. What are 3-5 ways you could help your students understand what effective application of a Biblical perspective on a classroom assessment looks like?
2. What will you do?

Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can you help your students understand that a Biblical perspective can be applied to course content?”
 
Define: Get the facts defined.
What do your students think a Biblical perspective applies to? doesn’t apply to?
 
Respond: Get the facts responded to in terms of feelings/experiences.
What’s satisfying/unsatisfying about your students’ recognition that a Biblical perspective applies to what they study?
 
Analyze: Get the facts, feelings, and experiences analyzed.

1. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being high), how well do your students understand that a Biblical perspective can be applied to what they study?
2. How would it help your students if they better understood that a Biblical perspective can be applied to what they study?

What’s next?: Get next steps considered.

1. What are 5 things you can do to help your students understand that a Biblical perspective can be applied to what they study?
2. What will you do?

Your fellow teachers want to help their students better connect what they study and what the Bible teaches. You can help your fellow teachers by asking questions to DRAW them out.  

Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can you help your students see the importance of Biblical perspective?”
 
Define: Get the facts defined.
In your last unit or during the last week of instruction in 1 class, what was the fraction?

1. # of lessons in which you taught a Biblical perspective of course content / total # of lessons
2. # of class minutes students learned about Biblical perspective of course content / total # of class minutes
3. # of Biblical perspective assessments / total # of assessments (including homework, in-class assignments, quizzes, and tests)

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

1. What excites/frustrates your students about Biblical perspective?
2. What excites/frustrates you about how your students see Biblical perspective?
3. What excites/frustrates you about teaching from a Biblical perspective?

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

1. What helps your students see the importance of Biblical perspective? What hinders?
2. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being high), what value do your students think you put on connecting what they study and what the Bible teaches?
3. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being high), what value do your students put on connecting what they study and what the Bible teaches?
4. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being high), what value do you want your students to put on connecting what they study and what the Bible teaches?

What’s next?: Get next steps considered.

1. To get your students to see the importance of Biblical perspective, what do you need to keep doing? start doing? stop doing?
2. What will you do?

Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can you give your students more practice?”
 
Define: Get the facts defined.
In the last week or unit, how many times did you ask your students to connect what they study and what the Bible teaches?

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

1. What’s satisfying/unsatisfying about having your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches? about the amount of practice you give your students in connecting what they study and what the Bible teaches?
2. How do your students feel about connecting what they study and what the Bible teaches? about the amount of practice you give them in connecting what they study and what the Bible teaches?

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

1. How does practice/repetition impact learning?
2. What might happen if you increased the amount of practice you give students in connecting what they study and what the Bible teaches?

What’s next?: Get next steps considered.

1. What can you do to increase the amount of practice you give students in connecting what they study and what the Bible teaches?
2. What will you do?

Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can you give your students opportunities to think through answers for themselves?”
 
Define: Get the facts defined.
During the last week or unit, what opportunities did students have to think through answers for themselves?
 
Respond: Get the facts responded to in terms of feelings/experiences.

1. When you were a student, what excited/concerned you about thinking through answers for yourself?
2. What excites/concerns your students about thinking through answers for themselves?
3. What excites/concerns you about your students thinking through answers for themselves?

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

1. How does thinking through answers for yourself impact your learning?
2. How does thinking through answers for themselves impact students’ learning?
3. How does thinking through answers for themselves impact students connecting what they study and what the Bible teaches?

What’s next?: Get next steps considered.

1. How can you provide opportunities for your students to think through answers for themselves?
2. How will you provide opportunities for your students to think through answers for themselves?

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?

Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can you provide time during class for reflection?”
 
Define: Get the facts defined.
During the last week or unit, how much time did you provide students to reflect? to connect what they study and what the Bible teaches?
 
Respond: Get the facts responded to in terms of feelings/experiences.

1. How you do feel when you’re given/not given time to reflect?
2. How do your students feel when you give/don't give them time to reflect?

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

1. How does having time for personal reflection impact your learning?
2. How does having time for personal reflection impact student learning? impact students connecting what they study and what the Bible teaches?

What’s next?: Get next steps considered.

1. How can you provide time in class for your students to reflect?
2. How can you provide time in class for your students to connect what they study and what the Bible teaches?
3. How will you provide time?

Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “What engaging instructional strategies will help your students?”
 
Define: Get the facts defined.
In the last week or unit, what instructional strategies did you use?
 
Respond: Get the facts responded to in terms of feelings/experiences.
What instructional strategies are you excited/frustrated about?
 
Analyze: Get the facts, feelings, and experiences analyzed.

1. What instructional strategies engage/don’t engage your students?
2. What are the qualities of an engaging instructional strategy?

What’s next?: Get next steps considered.

1. What engaging instructional strategies could you use next week or during the next unit?
2. What engaging instructional strategies will you use next week or during the next unit?
3. What engaging instructional strategies will you use next week or during the next unit to help your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches?

Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “What vocabulary words do your students need to learn?”
 
Define: Get the facts defined.
In the past week or unit, what vocabulary words have you taught your students?

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

1. When you were a student, how did you feel about learning vocabulary words? About not knowing what a word used in class meant?
2. What do you like/dislike about teaching vocabulary words?
3. What do your students like/dislike about learning vocabulary words?

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

1. How does knowing vocabulary words help students learn?
2. How does your students’ vocabulary help/hinder understanding what the Bible teaches? Help/hinder connecting what they study and what the Bible teaches?

What’s next?: Get next steps considered.

1. To help your students better understand the Bible and better connect what they study and what the Bible teaches, what vocabulary words do you want your students to learn?
2. What vocabulary words will you help your students learn?

Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “What engaging instructional strategies will help your students?”
 
Define: Get the facts defined.

1. What are your students like?
2. What are your students studying?
3. What connections are your students making between what they study and what the Bible teaches?

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

1. What do you students do when they are engaged/disengaged during a lesson?
2. How do you feel when your students are engaged/disengaged during a lesson?

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

1. How does being engaged help students learn?
2. How does being engaged help students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches?
3. What engages/disengages your students?
4. What instructional strategies disengage your students?
5. What instructional strategies engage your students?

What’s next?: Get next steps considered.

1. What engaging instructional strategy will you use?
2. How will using this instructional strategy help your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches?

Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can you meet student learning needs?”
 
Define: Get the facts defined.

1. What are your students like?
2. What are your students studying?
3. What connections are your students making between what they study and what the Bible teaches?

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

1. How do your students feel about connecting what they study and what the Bible teaches?
2. What encourages/discourages you about how your students are connecting what they study and what the Bible teaches? 

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

1. What helps/hinders your students connecting what they study and what the Bible teaches?
2. Which student learning needs do your students have?
3. Which student learning need would you like to meet?
4. What are some ways you could meet this student learning need? 

What’s next?: Get next steps considered.

1. What action step will you take to meet this student learning need?
2. How will this action step help your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches?
3. When will you take this action step?