Focus & Equip (2009.02): Supervise your staff
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1-2-14 Shinkawa Cho, Higashi Kurume Shi, Tokyo 203-0013
What helps/hinders you in achieving your goals?
Tomoko, a leadership developer based in Cambodia, has been working for several weeks to clarify God’s calling. In previous coaching sessions, she’s:
Supervise your staff
Good stewardship of staff involves supervision, supervision that results in staff understanding job expectations, meeting the expectations, and growing professionally.
Question: How can you provide effective supervision? Read more...
Ask a question
You want your staff to further develop common understanding of a key idea. You know that if this happens, you staff will be able to work together even more effectively.
Question: How can you help your staff further develop common understanding? Read more...
Use 8 questions to reflect on a subject area
Targeting Biblical perspective is vital. To get an idea of where your academic department is in terms of targeting Biblical perspective, reflect on 8 questions:
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?
Answer: By asking questions. Here are 4 key questions. Read more...
To help your students make connections, what unit assessments do you give?
Kim Essenburg, English 10 teacher
at Christian Academy in Japan, responds:
I use assessments to see how well my students are connecting what they study and what the Bible teaches—and I use assessments to give my students practice making connections. I give a total of 9 Biblical perspective assessments. I assess content/Bible connections in 2 of 4 presentations, 2 of 9 unit tests, and 5 of 8 essays.
Here are the prompts for my 9 assessments. Read more...
Give opportunities for student choice
You want to help your students better connect what they study and what the Bible teaches. You know that assessment helps your students learn, so you want to give your students good assessments. Specifically, you want to give your students assessments that give them opportunities to make choices—because you know making choices helps your students get engaged. Read more...
Help students address difficulties and dilemmas
Dan Beerens, vice president of learning
services at Christian Schools International,
focuses on Christian education in his blog Nurturing Faith. In this blog
entry, he writes about helping students address
difficulties and dilemmas.
Read more...
Help your students understand how you teach from a Biblical perspective
Key idea: Understanding how you teach from a Biblical perspective helps your students understand and apply a Biblical perspective.
Meet 2 of your students. Read more...
1-2-14 Shinkawa Cho, Higashi Kurume Shi, Tokyo 203-0013
What helps/hinders you in achieving your goals?
Tomoko, a leadership developer based in Cambodia, has been working for several weeks to clarify God’s calling. In previous coaching sessions, she’s:
- Identified 4 problems and 3 opportunities she’s passionate about & blessed by God to address.
- Developed a mission statement.
- Identified 6 goals she needs to accomplish to carry out her mission.
- Reflected on what’s already been accomplished for each of her 6 goals. Read more...
Supervise your staff
Good stewardship of staff involves supervision, supervision that results in staff understanding job expectations, meeting the expectations, and growing professionally.
Question: How can you provide effective supervision? Read more...
Ask a question
You want your staff to further develop common understanding of a key idea. You know that if this happens, you staff will be able to work together even more effectively.
Question: How can you help your staff further develop common understanding? Read more...
Use 8 questions to reflect on a subject area
Targeting Biblical perspective is vital. To get an idea of where your academic department is in terms of targeting Biblical perspective, reflect on 8 questions:
- What’s God’s purpose?
- What’s wrong?
- What difference does Jesus make?
- What will you do?
- What does the your department target? Read more...
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?
Answer: By asking questions. Here are 4 key questions. Read more...
To help your students make connections, what unit assessments do you give?
I use assessments to see how well my students are connecting what they study and what the Bible teaches—and I use assessments to give my students practice making connections. I give a total of 9 Biblical perspective assessments. I assess content/Bible connections in 2 of 4 presentations, 2 of 9 unit tests, and 5 of 8 essays.
Here are the prompts for my 9 assessments. Read more...
Give opportunities for student choice
You want to help your students better connect what they study and what the Bible teaches. You know that assessment helps your students learn, so you want to give your students good assessments. Specifically, you want to give your students assessments that give them opportunities to make choices—because you know making choices helps your students get engaged. Read more...
Help students address difficulties and dilemmas
Help your students understand how you teach from a Biblical perspective
Key idea: Understanding how you teach from a Biblical perspective helps your students understand and apply a Biblical perspective.
Meet 2 of your students. Read more...