You want to more effectively help your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches. So, you’ve identified your goal: To develop a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum:

• Guaranteed: All teachers at a given Christian school teach specified Bible content in each subject they teach.
• Viable: All teachers have sufficient instructional time to teach the specified Bible content.
• Biblical perspective: The specified Bible content is formatted as Biblical principles. Each Biblical principle is supported by at least 3 Bible passages.
• Curriculum: The specified Bible content is documented in the curriculum.

To move forward on your goal, you’ve reflected on 4 key questions:

1. Regarding developing a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum, what are the opportunities/problems?
2. What’s your stakeholders’ perspective of a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum?
3. Where are you/your school in terms of having a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum?
4. Regarding developing a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum, what’s your/your school’s level of motivation?

Now, it’s time to consider your options for taking action on your goal.
 
Question: To develop a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum, what do you/your school need to keep doing? start doing? stop doing?
 
Here are responses from Christian educators like you:
 
Teacher: This year, we worked on developing and implementing Biblical perspective lessons and assessments. We need to keep doing this. We need to keep getting training, and we need to keep talking about teaching from a Biblical perspective—in the staff lounge, in professional learning communities, in book discussions.
 
Developing a Biblical perspective curriculum involves intense effort. To be successful, we need school leaders to help us focus on and be accountable for this. Leaders can help by:

• Modeling teaching from a Biblical perspective during meetings.
• Providing time to talk about Biblical perspective during meetings—about lessons we’re teaching, about student learning results we’re getting, about the curriculum we’re developing.
• Turning this into a SMART goal.
• Providing time to work on curriculum.

To make room for these new things, we’re going to need to stop doing some things, for example, working on some school improvement plans.
 
Principal: We should continue to reflect on our Biblical perspective work and set new goals on what to do next. I think we should stop thinking of Biblical perspective as an isolated lesson and start using that lesson as a model to do in every unit. We need to keep doing Biblical perspective lessons, and we need to start doing more lessons and start thinking of Biblical perspective as what holds the curriculum together—so, we need stop thinking of Biblical perspective as something on a checklist.
 
Next question: How would you/your school develop a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum?
 
Target Biblical perspective. Today.
 
*This blog entry addresses Biblical perspective teacher training standard #4: To help students love God and impact the world for Him, teachers develop a curriculum that targets students understanding and then applying a Biblical perspective to course content and skills, and ultimately to their lives.