Focus & Equip (2008.12): Encourage reflective practice
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1-2-14 Shinkawa Cho, Higashi Kurume Shi, Tokyo 203-0013
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:
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...
1-2-14 Shinkawa Cho, Higashi Kurume Shi, Tokyo 203-0013
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:
- Content/skills and life. We want students connecting ecology with how they dispose of trash.
- Content/skills and Biblical principles. We want students connecting decisions made by government with Biblical principles regarding justice and peace.
- Biblical principles and life. We want students connecting Biblical principles regarding wealth, love, and the sanctity of life with the movies they watch.
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...