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Lesson OneAn Introduction and Overview4 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TwoThe Big Questions of Life3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson ThreeBasic Philosophical Categories and Their Relationship to Education3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FourCentrality of Scripture3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FiveA Biblical Worldview3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson SixThe Importance of Parents3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson SevenThe Importance of Teachers3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson EightNurturing in the Christian School3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson NineResponsive Discipleship in the Christian School3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TenThe Importance of a Coherent Curriculum3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson ElevenChristian Philosophy Under Attack3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TwelveChallenges and Opportunities for Christian Educators6 Activities1 Assessment
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion2 Activities1 Assessment
Participants 595
Discussion Questions
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The lecturer states she “would contend that only a believer is able to truly love wisdom as God created us to love.” Do you agree or disagree? Explain.
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As a Christian educator, I agree with the lecturer’s statement. True wisdom is intrinsically linked to a relationship with God, as Scripture teaches. Our faith allows us to appreciate wisdom intellectually and as a means to draw closer to our Creator. Loving wisdom, “as God created us to love,” implies a deep, passionate commitment to seeking truth and understanding. While non-believers may value knowledge, they cannot fully grasp wisdom in its God-intended form. The believer’s perspective on wisdom is holistic, encompassing intellectual, spiritual, and moral development. This view reflects the biblical understanding of wisdom as inseparable from faith and our relationship with God.
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I agree with this. As scripture states true wisdom comes from the Lord. Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and all who fear and receive Him as Lord and savior understand the foundation of true wisdom.
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I agree because true wisdom comes from The Word of God and it is our job as Christian Educators to provide Biblical knowledge and wisdom for our students so they can teach the next generation and the ones that follow.
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I agree, since wisdom comes from the Lord.
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After hearing the lecturer explain philosophy as the love of wisdom and apply Psalm 111:10 to the context of that definition, I agree that only believers can truly and authentically love wisdom. Wisdom begins by fearing the Lord, which requires submission to Him in a relationship with Him. Without this relational submission and fear, wisdom cannot truly begin. Wisdom cannot exist without an acceptance of reality, and as God is the author of all, we must know Him to truly understand and accept all that is around us.
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What do you hope to gain from this course? In what specific areas do you hope to grow as a Christian educator?
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I am currently a substitute teacher for high schools in the public school system. I would like to be able to share the Word of God to the next generation. I am prohibited from doing this in the public schools. So this licensing is important to me. I do not have a specific thing that I am looking to get from this study.
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I hope to learn the Christian Philosophy of Education. I have never learned it before, so I am very curious who what the course will provide. I pray that God speaks to me throughout this course so that my philosophy of education will align with His Word and I can educate students accordingly.
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I hope to gain more knowledge and guidance of how I can formulate a a yearly theme that incorporates the values and ethics of living each day can be a building block for God’s kingdom on earth. As a Christian educator I want to be able to grow in learning how to effectively incorporate implementing God’s living words of life to influence the thoughts of students to support building Heavenly Kingdom on earth.
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Aside from gaining my ACSI credential, I would like to discover new ways to weave biblical integration throughout my classes daily.
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I’d like to know how to balance between a couple of opposing inclinations that I have in teaching. One tendency is compassion or patience for ones who struggle with coursework, and my realization that hard work is necessary….hard work is hard. Be compassionate, or push on?
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Why is it imperative that Christian educators have a Christian philosophy of education?
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Christian educators need to have a Christian Philosophy of education because it’s important to equip students with knowledge of scripture and showing how relevant it is to daily life. It’s a valuable to plant seeds of faith to generate future disciples that will help show people how living in God’s Truth can result in an abundant life for God’s purpose.
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If you’re going to identify as a Christian or choose to work at a place that identifies as such, it is imperative to present a unified staff to students and parents. Denominations aside, the mutual goal of honoring Christ in our daily walk should be integral to a school community. This is a way to combine our subject book learning with faith-based practices that benefit our school’s cohesion to promote positive and encouraging education.
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If our worldview is not based on the bedrock of truth (the Word), we are teaching our students from a place of what culture in dictating. As we know, culture’s worldview changes with the wind. We would be setting them up for failure and confusion in the long run. As Christian educators, we must interweave God’s truths into every lesson in academics and social/emotional situations. Laying a solid, unchanging, true foundation for them to understand the world and grow academically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually.
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They go hand in hand. If you are a Christian, then your Christian philosophy sets your way of life and the standards that you live by,
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This is the foundation upon which we teach. Everyone will sift through this lens, so it is vitally important it is a from a Biblical worldview.