Background knowledge

Meet student learning needs

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.

Download a sample session.

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

Empower others to consider how to get students to understand that there’s a Biblical perspective of course content

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?

Meet your students' learning needs regarding creation-fall-redemption-restoration

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? Read More...

Help your students understand that a Biblical perspective can be applied to course content

Meet Tomoko, your new student. At home and at church, she talks about living for Jesus, doing devotions, and telling others about Jesus. At school, you talk about applying the Bible to what’s being studied. This is new to Tomoko. Read More...

How can you help your students understand that a Biblical perspective can be applied to course content?

You (at a coaching session): They don’t seem to get it—that there’s a biblical perspective of what they are learning. My students get Bible class, devotions, chapel, and proper behavior. I know that a home and at church they talk about living for Jesus and telling others about Jesus. But they don’t get that the Bible can be applied to what they learn. Read More...