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

Question: What are engaging instructional strategies you can use to help your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches?

Answer: Storytelling and asking questions. Theses are a time-tested, user-friendly strategies that students find engaging.

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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...

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? Read More...

Here's lesson model that uses best practice to point students to God.

Question: How can you help your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches?

Answer: By using best practice, including engaging instructional strategies like asking questions. Read More...

Dan Beerens, vice president of learning services at Christian Schools International, focuses on Christian education in his blog Nurturing Faith. In this blog entry, he writes about using case studies.

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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?

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Dan Beerens, vice president of learning services at Christian Schools International, focuses on Christian education in his blog Nurturing Faith. In this blog entry, he writes about helping students address difficulties and dilemmas. Read More...

Dan Beerens, vice president of learning services at Christian Schools International, focuses on Christian education in his blog Nurturing Faith. In this blog entry, he writes about reflective writing, an instructional strategy you can use to help your students connect what they study and Biblical teaching. Read More...

Dan Beerens, vice president of learning services at Christian Schools International, focuses on Christian education in his blog Nurturing Faith. In this blog entry, he writes about case studies, an instructional strategy you can use to help your students connect what they study and Biblical teaching. Read More...

Deborah Carpenter and Dana Bincer of Biblical Integration Ideas share an engaging instructional strategy you can use to help your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches:

Want to turn your classroom into a hotbed of discussion? Get your students thinking about and discussing biblically based open-ended questions. Read More...

Dan Beerens, vice president of learning services at Christian Schools International, focuses on Christian education in his blog Nurturing Faith. In this blog entry, he writes about telling narratives/faith stories, an instructional strategy you can use to help your students connect what they study and Biblical teaching. Read More...

Dan Beerens, vice president of learning services at Christian Schools International, focuses on Christian education in his blog Nurturing Faith. In this blog entry, he writes about asking questions, an instructional strategy you can use to help your students connect what they study and Biblical teaching. Read More...

Anda Foxwell, 6th grade social studies teacher, reflects on her Biblical perspective unit, concluding that having students work together helps students connect course content and Biblical teaching.

You’re looking at the data from the Biblical perspective assessment you gave last week. The scores are OK, but not quite what you hoped they’d be. You think, “I thought this might happen. The students didn’t seem into it. I wonder why.” Read More...