You want to pursue God’s calling. You’ve heard about coaching, and you want to explore getting coaching. Good. Start your exploration by watching this 1-minute video.



Does coaching help people pursue God’s calling? Yes.

• As a result of getting coaching, I’ve clarified my ministry, better balanced home and work, and more effectively led change.
• Those I coach consistently testify that coaching helps them achieve their goals.
• And research indicates that coaching, for example, increases training impact by 300%.

To further explore coaching, focus on 4 questions:

1. What is coaching?
2. In coaching, who does what?
3. What could you work on with a coach?
4. Are you ready for coaching? (Download, print, and complete this self-assessment.)

Review: You’ve explored getting coaching by thinking about what coaching is, what the client and coach are responsible for, what you can work on with a coach, and how ready you are to be coached.

Question: What are you going to do?

The challenge: At Christian schools, we want our students to develop a Christ-centered worldview, to see all of life through the lens of Scripture. This is a big challenge! One way we address this challenge is by having our students connect what they study with Biblical teaching.

Where can you get some help with this challenge?

Right here! In this 10-step tutorial, you'll learn how to help your students make connections. You'll learn to design a Biblical perspective lesson plan and a Biblical perspective assessment. And after you teach your lesson and give your assessment, you'll reflect on your lesson plan and assessment results.

Take these 10 steps:

1. Ask God for help.
2. Experience a Biblical perspective lesson.
3. Get clear on what connecting course content/skills and Biblical teaching is—and is not.
4. Reflect on how making connections helps your students develop a Christ-centered worldview.
5. Identify the Biblical teaching you want your students to connect with what they study. Here are sample Biblical principles you can teach your students.
6. Develop an essential question that GRACES your students' worldview understanding. Here's a list of 99 Biblical perspective questions.
7. Design a Biblical perspective assessment that SCOREs.
8. Design a Biblical perspective lesson that involves your students in connecting what they study, Biblical teaching, and life—and that prepares them for the Biblical perspective assessment. Here are some sample lessons. Here are 2 versions of a lesson plan tempate (lesson template pdf, lesson template Word).
9. Teach your Biblical perspective lesson and give your students the Biblical perspective assessment.
10. Reflect on your lesson plan and assessment results in order to modify instruction.

Teach and assess Biblical perspective. Today.

To help your students better connect what they study and what the Bible teaches, DEAL with your students’ learning needs:

• Define your students’ learning needs.
• Explore the how you can respond to your students’ learning needs.
• Act.
• Look at the results.

Take action: Take 4 steps to DEAL with your students’ learning needs.

(1) Define your students’ learning needs. You can do this by looking at your students’ work, talking with your students, giving them a survey, or using a list of 10 sample learning needs as an assessment tool. Once you’ve defined your students’ learning needs, select 1 student learning need you will address.


(2) Explore ways to address the student learning need you selected. For example, you can explore addressing a student learning need through reading and discussion. Below is a list of 10 sample learning needs phrased as questions. The list comes with readings and discussion guides:

1. How can you help your students see the importance of Biblical perspective? (Read, Discuss)
2. How can you help your students understand that a Biblical perspective can be applied to course content? (Read, Discuss)
3. How can you show your students what applying a Biblical perspective looks like? (Read)
4. How can you help your students understand how you teach from a Biblical perspective? (Read, Discuss)
5. What vocabulary words do your students need to learn? (Read, Discuss)
6. What engaging instructional strategies will help your students? (Read, Discuss 1, Discuss 2)
   
7. How can you give your students opportunities to think through answers for themselves? (Read, Discuss)
8. How can you provide time during class for reflection? (Read, Discuss)
9. How can you design assessments so that your students connect a Biblical perspective with their lives? (Read, Discuss)
10. How can you give your students more practice? (Read, Discuss)

Now, choose 1 way to meet the learning need you selected. Make a plan to address it. Be sure to get the support, encouragement, and accountability you need to carry out your plan.


(3) Act. Just do it! Implement your plan. And be sure to tell your students what you are doing and why.


(4) Look at the results. Discuss them with your students and colleagues.


Question: What will you do today to DEAL with your students’ learning needs?

Christian education involves worldview education, education that helps students develop and apply a Christian worldview.

Here's a 6-part tutorial you can use to explore Christian worldview education:

1. Regarding providing worldview education, what helps/hinders you?
2. Everyone has a worldview. What helps students understand this?
3. You can help your students develop a Christian worldview by asking questions. What key questions do you want your students to consider?
4. A person’s worldview is connected to how s/he answers questions. How can you help your students understand this?
5. Worldview affects educational practice. How does your Christian worldview affect your educational practice?
6. Everyone lives out his/her worldview. You live out your worldview in your classroom. As a Christian teacher, how can you increasingly target students understanding and then applying a Biblical perspective to course content and skills?

Remember: The goal is to learn about Christian worldview education. The goal is to have students increasing their understanding and application of a Chrisitan worldview.

Question: What will you to do help your students increase their understanding and application of a Christian worldview?

A key goal of Christian education is students increasing their understanding and application of a Biblical perspective. Assessment can help! Here's a 4-part tutorial on how you can use assessment. The tutorial address the vision for assessment, assessment for learning, goal setting, and rubric usage:

(1) What's the vision for using assessment?

(2) Does assessment help improve student use of a Biblical perspective? Yes!

1. Teacher testimonial: Kim Essenburg, who teaches English 10, says, "Assessment helps students more deeply connect what they study, their lives, and a Biblical perspective."
2. What type of assessment can you use?
3. What makes a good assessment good?
4. How can you make assessment even better?

(3) Now that you more fully understand that assessment does help students understand and apply a Biblical perspective, you're ready to set a student learning target, determine your current commitment, and consider the amount of practice your students will need to achieve your learning goal.

1. How proficiently do you want your students to use a Biblical perspective?
   
2. What's the relationship between commitment to Biblical perspective and frequency of assessment?
3. How much practice do your students need?
4. Teacher tip: Give your students quality practice, says Michael Essenburg

(4) Before giving your students a Biblical perspective assessment, be sure your design a rubric. Using a rubric will help your students understand your expectations and provide you with assessment data you can use to modify instruction:

1. What makes a good rubric good?
2. How can you use a rubric?
3. How can you use assessment data to help students learn?
4. Teacher tip: Use a bookmark to prepare students for a Biblical perspective

Question: How will you use assessment to help your students increase their understanding and application of a Biblical perspective?

You want your students to honor Christ and impact the world from Him. Consequently, you want to nurture faith in Christ. One way you do this is by helping your students understand and apply a Biblical perspective to what they study. You've heard that asking questions is a good way to do this.

You wonder, "Does asking questions help students understand and apply a Biblical perspective?"

• Heidi Schaeffer, who teachers Science 5, says, "Questions helped my students see how creation points to God."
  
• And in the following video, Michael Essenburg says that asking questions is a doable, effective way to help students understand and apply a Biblical perspective.

Here's a 4-part tutorial you can use to learn more about asking questions:

(1) Explore the role questions:

• Why does God ask questions?
  
• How valuable are questions?
  
• Anda Foxwell, who teachers Social Studies 6, says, "Questions helped my students apply a Biblical perspective."

(2) Explore using questions in your classroom:

• What does using questions look like?
  
• What questions should your students respond to? (Here's a list of 99 Biblical perspective questions you can ask your students.)
  
• What questions should your students ask?
  
• What makes a good question good?
  
• What do you want your students to learn when you ask a question?
  
• Kim Essenburg, who teachers English 10, says, "Using questions works!"

(3) Explore ways to get your students to use questions to increase their understanding and application of a Biblical persepective:

• How can you help your students sincerely respond to Biblical perspective questions?
  
• How can you use your questions effectively?

Want to read another testimonial? Here's one from a school: At CAJ, we use questions to equip students to impact the world for Christ.

(4) Real Question: The real question isn't "Does asking questions help students understand and apply a Biblical perspective work?" The real question is, "How will you use questions help your students understand and apply a Biblical perspective?" Ask your students a good question. Today.

As a Christian school teacher, you want your students to love God with their minds. So, you work to help your students apply a Biblical perspective to the course content you teach. This is a challenge. To meet this challenge, target student application of a Biblical perspective. This tutorial can help!



Does targeting Biblical perspective work? Yes! (teacher testimonials)

How can you increasingly target Biblical perspective?

1. Start by journaling for 5 or more minutes on "What's important about your students applying a Biblical perspective to the content you teach?"
   
2. Read the 12 goals listed below for targeting Biblical perspective.
   
3. Select 1 or more goals.
   
4. Use the Action Step Bank to write down your goal(s) and the action steps you can take to achieve each goal. Make your action steps specific and bite size.
   
5. Review your action step list and commit to completing 1 action within the next 5 work days. Ask a colleague to give you the support, encouragement, and accountability you need to complete your action steps.
   
6. Take action.
   
7. Talk with your colleague about your progress. As appropriate, use a protocol (GROW Process).
   
8. Repeat steps 5-7 until you have completed all the action steps you wrote down.

12 goals for targeting Biblical perspective:

1. Ask God to help students understand and apply a Biblical perspective to course content.
   
2. Increase your commitment to helping students love God with their minds.
   
3. Focus on students applying a Biblical perspective to course content they have mastered (not mastering course content).
   
4. Determine current and desired performance levels for you and your students.
   
5. Brainstorm with a colleague about ways to help students apply a Biblical perspective.
   
6. Develop lesson plans that target students applying a Biblical perspective to course content.
   
7. Provide value-added content by teaching students new Biblical perspective content and/or helping them make connections between what they are studying and Bible knowledge they already have.
   
8. Provide time in class for students to apply a Biblical perspective to course content.
   
9. Measure student application of a Biblical perspective.
   
10. Use assessment data to modify instruction.
    
11. Share with others how students are applying a Biblical perspective to course content.
    
12. Identify factors that hinder student application of a Biblical perspective. Take action to alleviate these factors.

Target Biblical perspective. Today.