Focus & Equip (2008.12): Encourage reflective practice

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What's it take to carry out your God-given mission?
You’re coaching Mark, a math teacher at an international Christian school in Korea. He wants to clarify God’s calling. In previous sessions, he identified the problems/opportunities he’s passionate about and blessed by God to address. He also drafted a personal mission statement: Equipping Christians to live for Jesus. Read more...



Encourage reflective practice
Your staff members are a gift from God. You know this, and you want to be a good steward of God’s gift. How can you excise staff stewardship?
 
Answer:  By encouraging reflective practice. Read more...



Regarding a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum, what are the opportunities/problems?
Christian schools have a key opportunity to take fuller advantage of—to help students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches. One way to move forward on this is to develop a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum.

Question: Regarding a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum, what are the opportunities/problems? Read more...



Require your students to make connections
At Christian schools, we want our students connecting:
  1. Content/skills and life. We want students connecting ecology with how they dispose of trash.
  2. Content/skills and Biblical principles. We want students connecting decisions made by government with Biblical principles regarding justice and peace.
  3. Biblical principles and life. We want students connecting Biblical principles regarding wealth, love, and the sanctity of life with the movies they watch.
Question: How can you help your students make connections? Read more...



Show your students what using a Biblical perspective looks like
It’s the end of your English class, and you assign a 750-word essay in which your students are to evaluate a theme from Hamlet, from a Biblical perspective.
 
Then the bell rings. One of your students, Ian, approaches you and says, “I don't know what it looks like. I know what telling others about Jesus looks like—we read missionary biographies at school and I go on mission trips with my church. What does doing a good job on using a Biblical perspective look like in an essay?” Read more...