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Students connect memoir, life, and Biblical teaching
Kim Essenburg, English 10 teacher at Christian Academy in Japan, reflects her assessment results:

The Holocaust memoir Night grabs my 10th graders. Maybe because the narrator is their age when he suffers such horrific cruelty. Maybe because it’s real—my students are face to face with the Fall, with how people can degrade one another.

Then they begin to make connections. To the way South Koreans view North Koreans. To the way laughing at another can make them feel better about themselves. To what the Bible teaches about who people are and how we are to treat them. Here are some of their connections:

• “Whether it is in the form of murder, bullying, or stealing, people are being treated with less dignity than they deserve....as Christians, we must honor one another as created in God's image and love both our neighbors and our oppressors.”
• “People always say that they want to make the world a better place, but they think too big or they don’t think at all or say that’s awful and sit and do nothing. But...one specific thing that I can do is to stop criticizing people...and…‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ (Mark 12.31, Matt. 22.39).”

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Empower others to help students understand what effective application of a Biblical perspective looks like
Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can you help your students understand what effective application of a Biblical perspective looks like on a classroom assessment?”
 
Define: Get the facts defined.
What do your students think effective application of a Biblical perspective looks like?
 
Respond: Get the facts responded to in terms of feelings/experiences.

1. What’s encouraging/discouraging about your students’ understanding of what effective application of a Biblical perspective looks like?
2. What’s easy/hard about helping your students understand what effective application of a Biblical perspective looks like?

Analyze: Get the facts, feelings, and experiences analyzed.

1. To what do you attribute your students’ current level of understanding?
2. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being high), how clear are you on what effective application of a Biblical perspective on a classroom assessment looks like?

What’s next?: Get next steps considered.

1. What are 3-5 ways you could help your students understand what effective application of a Biblical perspective on a classroom assessment looks like?
2. What will you do?