If you want to help your students to better connect God’s world and Word, meet their learning needs. “Learning needs” are anything your students need in order for learning to happen. Watch this video about meeting 5 learning needs students have:




Want to work with your colleagues to better meet student learning needs? If so, then purchase Meet Your Students’ Learning Needs (US$25), a discussion-based kit with 7 sessions. As a result of completing these 7 sessions, you will…

1. Define and meet your students’ learning needs.
2. Help your students better understand the importance of connecting God’s world and Word.
3. Help your students better understand that God’s Word can be connected to the part of God’s world they are studying.
4. Help your students understand more biblical principles that connect to what they study.
5. Provide the engaging instruction your students need in order to connect God’s world and Word.
6. Provide time during class for your students to reflect on how God’s world and Word are connected.
7. Demonstrate your commitment to meeting your students’ learning needs.

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Purchase Meet Your Students’ Learning Needs (US$25). This kit is 1 of a 4-part series:

1. Help Your Students Connect God’s World and Word
2. Use Assessment
3. Use Questions
4. Meet Student Learning Needs

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?

Your students’ objective is to better connect what they study and God’s story of creation-fall-redemption-restoration. You want to help your students achieve their objective. Good.

Now what? Help your students achieve their objective by meeting 1 of their learning needs.

Question: What are you students’ learning needs? To identify your students’ learning needs, review the list of 10 questions below. Note which questions you think you need to answer in order to meet your students’ learning needs:

1. How can you help your students see the importance of creation-fall-redemption-restoration?
2. How can you help your students understand that creation-fall-redemption-restoration can be connected to course content?
3. How can you show your students what connecting course content and creation-fall-redemption-restoration looks like?
4. How can you help your students understand how you teach using creation-fall-redemption-restoration?
5. What vocabulary words do your students need to learn?
6. What engaging instructional strategies will help your students?
   
7. How can you give your students opportunities to think through answers for themselves?
8. How can you provide time during class for reflection?
9. How can you design assessments so that your students connect creation-fall-redemption-restoration with their lives?
10. How can you give your students more practice?

Take action: Answer 1 of the questions you noted. Then use your answer. You might be tempted to answer more than 1 question. Don’t. Keep it simple and doable. Just answer 1 question—then use your 1 answer.

Remember, the goal is not to have an answer. The goal is to use your answer to help your students connect what they study and creation-fall-redemption-restoration. Today.

You hear a student say: I like this Biblical perspective stuff. But to really get it, I need time to think about what I’m learning. We don’t really do this in class. I’ve got sports after school and homework at night. When am I supposed to find time to reflect?

You think: He’s right. He’s busy, and having time in class to reflect would help him better understand and apply a Biblical perspective.

Question: How can you provide time during class for reflection?

Answer: Build reflection into your lesson plans. How? Use discussion and journaling.

Provide reflection time today. Help your students understand and apply a Biblical perspective.