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?

You: I need to get a stable job.

Me: Do you mean you need a steady job or you need to get a job in a stable?

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Imagine the confusion if you and I aren’t clear on what you mean when you say “stable.” Now imagine the confusion if you and your students aren’t clear on what you mean when you use certain words. Words like abortion, abuse, animism, Buddhism, capital punishment, capitalism, civil disobedience, common grace, communism, image bearer of God, perspective, shalom, and worldview.

What if your students aren’t sufficiently clear on key vocabulary words that they’re expected to use when completing a biblical perspective assessment?

Yes, understanding vocabulary words is a key student learning need. You can help your students increase their understanding and use of a biblical perspective by using the IDEAL process to address this learning need:

• Identify the problem: Your students aren’t performing as well as they could on your biblical perspective assessments.
  
• Define the problem: You talk with your students and review the last biblical perspective assessment. You determine that your students don’t sufficiently understand key vocabulary terms.
  
• Explore the problem: You develop a list of vocabulary terms. You do this by asking students which words they do not fully understand and by identifying key vocabulary terms. You develop your next biblical perspective assessment, and identify the vocabulary words your students need to have a working knowledge of in order to complete it.
  
• Act: You use effective teaching strategies to engage your students in learning the vocabulary terms and then have your students apply their learning on a biblical perspective assessment.
  
• Look at the results: That’ll have to wait until after your students take your biblical perspective assessment.

Meet your students’ learning needs. Help them understand key vocabulary terms.

Here’s a sample vocabulary list:

1. Abortion
   
2. Abuse
   
3. Animism
   
4. Birth control
   
5. Buddhism
   
6. Capital punishment
   
7. Capitalism
   
8. Civil disobedience
   
9. Common grace
   
10. Communism
    
11. Competition
    
12. Creationism
    
13. Crime
    
14. Dance
    
15. Death
    
16. Deism
    
17. Disabilities
    
18. Discrimination
    
19. Divorce
    
20. Drug abuse
    
21. Ecology
    
22. Entertainment
    
23. Euthanasia
    
24. Evolution
    
25. Existentialism
    
26. Exploitation
    
27. Fair trial
    
28. Film arts
    
29. Gambling
    
30. General revelation
    
31. Health
    
32. Hinduism
    
33. Homosexuality
    
34. Image bearer of God
    
35. Integrity
    
36. Islam
    
37. Labor unions
    
38. Law
    
39. Modernism
    
40. Moral absolutes
    
41. Moral relativism
    
42. Nihilism
    
43. Pacifism
    
44. Pantheism
    
45. Perjury
    
46. Pornography
    
47. Post-modernism
    
48. Poverty
    
49. Power
    
50. Property
    
51. Racism
    
52. Recycle
    
53. Sabbath
    
54. Special revelation
    
55. Stewardship
    
56. Success
    
57. Technology
    
58. Theism
    
59. War
    
60. Wealth
    
61. Worldview