What hinders you/your school from helping students increase application of a Biblical perspective?

22/10/07 21:14 Filed in: Roadblocks
Want to increase student application of a Biblical perspective?
  1. Identify which of the 20 factors (listed below) affect you/your school’s staff/students.
  2. Develop 1 or more action plans to address one factor you identified.
  3. Take action.
  4. Repeat steps 2-3 as necessary.
Here are the 20 factors:
  1. The administration does not focus enough staff energy on students understanding and applying a Biblical perspective.
  2. Teachers don’t know what the goal is (the % of students need to score at or above standard on applying a Biblical perspective).
  3. Teachers target students mastering course content, not students applying a Biblical perspective to the course content they master.
  4. Teachers aren’t clear about what Biblical perspective content/skills they’re supposed to teach.
  5. Biblical perspective content/skills are not challenging, relevant, or coherent enough.
  6. Teachers don’t have enough time to teach the content/skills.
  7. Students don’t have enough background knowledge/skills.
  8. Biblical perspective assessment prompts need work.
  9. Teachers don’t provide enough feedback to students regarding Biblical perspective.
  10. Rubrics need work.
  11. Students aren’t engaged enough.
  12. The instructional strategies teachers use aren’t effective enough.
  13. The school doesn’t provide enough support services regarding Biblical perspective.
  14. Parents aren’t supportive enough.
  15. Parents don’t understand how their child is performing in terms of Biblical perspective.
  16. Teachers don’t collaborate effectively enough.
  17. Teachers don’t have enough time to talk.
  18. Teachers don’t have enough training.
  19. Teachers don’t have the resources (staff, instructional materials, facilities, finances) they need.
  20. Classrooms are not safe and healthy enough.
Target Biblical perspective. Today.