Introduction to Christian

Education
EDUC310

Review of Week 12:

1. Our desire is that our students would truly have
wisdom & understanding. A wise man builds on
a solid foundation (Matt. 7:24-25)
2. Educators must be prepared to answer
fundamental, foundational questions about lifes
purpose, origin, and mans destiny.
3. We stay prepared & fresh by seeking God for
wisdom (fresh manna - Exodus 16:20)

Objective 1 :
By the close of this class, students will be able
to articulate why understanding origins is vital
and will have reviewed some for the Final Exam

Course Objectives Review:

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
Understand and articulate patterns of education in history
Differentiate between major educational philosophies
Explain how an educators worldview reflects in their teaching
Employ Biblical teaching strategies in a variety of teaching venues
Understand the educational role of parents, churches, and church leaders

Course Objectives Review:

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
Understand and articulate patterns of education in history
Differentiate between major educational philosophies
Explain how an educators worldview reflects in their teaching
Employ Biblical teaching strategies in a variety of teaching venues
Understand the educational role of parents, churches, and church leaders
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Planning & Preparation for Lessons

Classroom Procedures & Management
Assessment Techniques
Discipleship, investment, character-building
Discipline & Restoration

Follow-up: What is the Role of the Educator

in Addressing Foundational Issues?
5. Rightly dividing the Word of God

II Timothy 2:15-16

6. Having a steady diet of doctrine

Jer. 15:16 its a heart issue
Receptivity to Gods Word Rejoicing!
7. Willing to love without return - but unwilling to budge on truth
a. Convictions are a heart issue - led by the Holy Spirit
b. Compromise? What does the Bible say about the issue
also see: I Cor. 9:22 / I Thess. 5:21 prove all things

Follow-up: What is the Role of the Educator

in Addressing Foundational Issues?
8. Issues of origin:
a. Maintain your humility and rest in the fact that our
time/space understanding has huge limitations
b. Hold to what the scripture explicitly says. If we
compromise on this - what else will we bend on, in time?
c. We are to lift up Christ and HE will draw all men unto
Himself. John 12:32

Follow-up: What is the Role of the Educator

in Addressing Foundational Issues?
8. Issues of origin:
d. Teach that understanding ones origin
is critical for understanding ones purpose,
design, and future.
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Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us

make man in our image,
after our likeness...
Gen 3:23the ground from
whence he was taken
Image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Man_Made_in_the_Image_of_God_(crop).jpg

Follow-up: What is the Role of the Educator

in Addressing Foundational Issues?
8. Issues of origin:

Selected gems on the topic...

Isaiah 43:7 KJV [Even] every one that is called by my name: for I have
created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became
a living soul.
Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
declare, if thou hast understanding.
Jeremiah 10:12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath
established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens
by his discretion.
Also Rom. 1:20-21, Deut. 32:39,

Planning for Instruction

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Planning & Preparation for Lessons

Classroom Procedures & Management
Assessment Techniques
Discipleship, investment, character-building
Discipline & Restoration

Practical steps for teacher preparation:

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All study is best from a position of rest and utter reliance on God for wisdom
God knows your students - We go
before Him in prayer before we set foot
in the door
Recognize that human understanding
is limited. Your ability to grasp and
communicate information only goes so
far. Plan for excellence - but be
realistic about outcomes, and be willing
to admit when you are wrong.

Image adapted from: LOC.gov. (n.d.). San Leandro,

California. Kindergarten children and their teacher,
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C. 20540 [Photograph]. Retrieved
from http://lcweb2.loc.
gov/service/pnp/fsa/8d04000/8d04000/8d04047r.jpg

Planning for Instruction

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Planning & Preparation for Lessons

Classroom Procedures & Management
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Discipleship, investment, character-building
Discipline & Restoration

Practical steps for teacher preparation:

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Establish priorities for:

a. Your own study of content material
b. Content your students should
encounter in the classroom and in
self-study
c. What essential elements your
students must take away from your
instruction
d. What formative & summative
assessments will be used to check
for student skill acquisition
e. How your students spend their time

Image adapted from:Johnston, F. B. (1899). Eight African American children

[Photograph]. Retrieved from Library of Congress: http://cdn.loc.
gov/service/pnp/cph/3c20000/3c20000/3c20600/3c20667v.jpg

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Planning & Preparation for Lessons

Classroom Procedures & Management
Assessment Techniques
Discipleship, investment, character-building
Discipline & Restoration

Practical steps for teacher preparation:

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Carefully regard your pacing, adjusting for student capacity but

adhering to the specific requirements of the course:
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Pacing of the course:

Scope: What content knowledge I intentionally plan to unveil to
my students
Sequence: The planned timeline of events that scaffold the
unfolding of content material for my students.
Together, these comprise a course Scope & Sequence

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Classroom Procedures & Management
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Discipleship, investment, character-building
Discipline & Restoration

Practical steps for teacher preparation:

4. Pacing:
Marzano on pacing activity:
In addition to the effective execution of administrative tasks [handing in
assignments, distributing materials, storing materials after an activity, getting
organized into groups], pacing involves transitions from one activity to another
...One might think of a lesson involving segments. Typically, every lesson will
involve administrative segments Every lesson will also involve segments
devoted to content knowledge. (Marzano, 2007)
Marzano, R. J. (2007). The art and science of teaching: A comprehensive framework for effective instruction. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development.

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Classroom Procedures & Management
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Discipline & Restoration

Practical steps for teacher preparation:

4. Pacing:
Rules of thumb:
Instructional activities are usually most productive when one builds
upon the previous task / segment. Teaching is, in this way, akin to
building a house, one brick at a time...
Disjointed segments can still be profitable, but it is advisable that
your lessons have a natural flow from one activity to the next
incorporating natural connections between one idea and a
complementary idea to follow.
Proper pacing does not wait for teachable moments, it enables
them

Lesson Planning Specifics

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Classroom Procedures & Management
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Discipleship, investment, character-building
Discipline & Restoration

Lesson planning is, perhaps, the most challenging aspect of teaching. Yet, it is in this
quotidian practice that teachers establish the order, procedures, and proper management
of the flow of information that will bring rest to their classrooms.

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/women-rights/images/section_header.jpg

How would you begin to talk about a historical issue, such as womens suffrage
in a middle school history classroom? What sources would you use? How would
you select your own study information? Performance assessments?

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Discipleship, investment, character-building
Discipline & Restoration

Lesson plans should always include these elements:

Content area, topic, grade level
Objective: Should include a condition, some sort of
demonstration, scoring guide
Applicable State Standards: Numbered, specific content
standards keep you accountable
Character element or Bible integration: Dependent on the
venue but character lessons should be an underpinning
of your instruction
Textual and multimedia elements: Where is your
information coming from?

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Classroom Procedures & Management
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Discipleship, investment, character-building
Discipline & Restoration

Lesson plans should always include these elements:

Materials to distribute: What documents will you use?
Will you make your own? How will you assess them?
Will you use others? Are they approved?
Prior Learning Assessment: Formative assessment - what
do they know? KWL: Know / Want to Know / Learned
Pacing / Time allocations: Time-on-Task (ToT) for each
activity; Plan for transition times too!
Connections: cross-linkages
How can a lesson connect with other content areas, for
instance: How can a science lesson also relate to what
students are doing in English class?

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Discipline & Restoration

Lesson plans should always include these elements:

Essential questions:
Questions you will NOT provide the answer to
immediately
Questions that provoke student thinking,
processing, and reasoning
Questions that directly relate to the core content and
guide learners towards digging for answers
Conclusion practice: Exit card / Closing remarks
Assessment: when appropriate, a summative check for
understanding
Grading...

Classroom Procedures Review

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Discipline & Restoration

Teaching is essentially a relationship-based profession

a. Classroom management reflects the heart of the teacher
toward the students
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Personality must not trump institutional policies, established

school / church procedures, or simple good judgement.

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Discipline is to be evenly and fairly applied, as outlined by the

table of authority - not personal preference.

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Godly wisdom guards our relationships (see II Timothy 2:25)

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Grace, mercy, and a heart of restoration is the basis for all

discipline in a classroom management scenario

Assessment Review

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Discipleship, investment, character-building
Discipline & Restoration

Assessments may best be planned using backwards design

(Wiggins, McTighe, 2003) - Know the goal and teach to the goal.
Formative assessments: Using active, in-class techniques such
as verbal questioning, interactive groups, dynamic performances,
etc. to check for understanding during instruction
Summative assessments: Using some sort of graded
performance or written assessment to gauge student skill
acquisition for the purpose of evaluating based on a rigorous
standard
* Note: The term backwards design has been introduced into common educator
vocabulary by two prominent researchers, Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe.
See: McTighe, J. (2003). Using date to improve student achievement / Backward design for forward action. Educational
Leadership, 60(5), 52-55. Retrieved from http://jaymctighe.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Backward-Design-forForward-Action.pdf

Parenting & Discipleship...

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God made man in His image. It is in our design to communicate,

teach, tell, talk, connect, meet, engage, and above all - LOVE
other people.

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Parents are the primary educators for children.

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God set people in families. Families are the context in which

children first learn about the world. Families need constant
encouragement and investment - in the Body of Christ - the
Church.

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Discipleship is based on genuine love, care, concern - and is a

work of the Holy Spirit as He places people together to grow,
learn, and receive Grace.

Proverbs 21:5 NKJV

Parting Shot...

The plans of the diligent

[lead] surely to plenty,
But [those of] everyone
[who is] hasty, surely to
poverty.

Proverbs 22:29 NKJV

Do you see a man [who]
excels in his work? He will
stand before kings;
He will not stand before
unknown [men].

National Youth Administration (NYA)., & Indiana University - Bloomington. (1935).[Photograph]. Retrieved from http://libraries.iub.edu/sites/default/files/nya.jpg

Selected References:
Dilley, A. P. (2014, February). In Defense of the Christian Private School Bubble. Christianity Today. Retrieved from http://www.christianitytoday.com/women/2014/february/indefense-of-christian-private-school-bubble.html

McTighe, J. (2003). Using date to improve student achievement / Backward design for forward action. Educational Leadership, 60(5), 52-55. Retrieved from http://jaymctighe.
com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Backward-Design-for-Forward-Action.pdf

McTighe, J., & Wiggins, G. (2014, October). UbD Website Resource. Retrieved from http://jaymctighe.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/UbD-Websites-10.13.14.pdf

McTighe, J., Wiggins, G., & Authentic Education. (2013). Essential Questions. Retrieved from http://www.essentialquestions.org/random_questions.lasso

Liberty University, School of Education. (2012). Teacher Education | Student Teaching Resources | Student Teaching Handbook. Retrieved from http://www.liberty.
edu/academics/education/index.cfm?PID=15896

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