Good questions

How effective are your Biblical perspective questions?

Asking questions is good way to help your student connect what they study and what the Bible teaches—provided that the questions you ask are effective. Here are 5 examples:
  1. How can you use your learning to serve others?
  2. How are God's mercy and justice related?
  3. How aware should you be of culture?
  4. How can art express your beliefs?
  5. How can you be a good caretaker?
(Here’s a list of 99 effective Biblical perspective questions.)
 
Effective Biblical perspective questions:
  • Grab your students’ attention
  • Require upper-level thinking
  • Allow a variety of acceptable answers
  • Help your students connect course content, life, and a Biblical perspective
  • Are essential—universal, timeless, at the heart of learning
So, how effective are your Biblical perspective questions? What can you do to make your questions even more effective?
 
Help your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches. Use effective Biblical perspective questions. Today.

Ask your students the big questions of life

If you want to get your students to develop a Christ-centered worldview, get them thinking. If you want to get your students thinking, get them to respond to the big questions of life, for example:
  1. Who is God?
  2. What’s creation like?
  3. What does it mean to be human?
  4. What’s good?
  5. What’s wrong with the world?
  6. What’s the solution?
  7. How should you live?
Help you students develop a Christ-centered worldview. Ask them a question. Today.

Ask your students difficult questions

Question: How can you help your students develop a Christ-centered worldview?

Answer: By asking them difficult questions, for example:
  1. Who is God?
  2. Who are you?
  3. What’s the problem?
  4. What’s the solution?
  5. How can you be in the world but not of it?
  6. When do you wage war and wage peace?
  7. How should you use your body?
  8. How should you use wealth?
  9. How valuable is life?
  10. What’s good?
Help your students develop a Christ-centered worldview. Ask them a difficult question. Today.

Ask your students the WHWW questions

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Harold Klassen of Transforming Teachers shares his WHWW questions:
  • Where’s God in this?
  • How has sin affected this?
  • What does the Bible say about this?
  • Why did Christ make this?
How could you use Harold’s WHWW questions?

To empower others to consider what makes a good question good, DRAW them out

Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “What makes a good question good?
 
Define: Get the facts defined.
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Ask questions about creation-fall-redemption-restoration

You want your students to develop a Christ-centered worldview. So, you want your students to connect what they study and the Biblical motif of creation-fall-redemption-restoration. Good.
 
Question: How can you do this?
 
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Here’s a list of questions you can ask your students

You want your students to develop a Christ-centered worldview. Good. You know that one way to do this is to have students respond to Biblical perspective questions.
 
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What question do you want to ask your students?

Answer: The question that will help your students increase their understanding and use of a biblical perspective. Keep in mind there is more than 1 question you can ask your students. So, choose a question. Read More...

What makes a good question good?

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Use questions to equip students to impact the world for Christ

At Christian Academy in Japan, we teach from a biblical perspective. We model Christ and talk with students about Christ. We provide students with Bible classes, chapels, and service opportunities. Why? Because we want our students to understand and use a biblical perspective. An additional way we do this is by asking students worldview questions: Read More...