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Lesson OneIntroduction and Overview4 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TwoDefining Curricular Biblical Integration3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson ThreeYou Can't Integrate What You Don't Know: The Role of Christ3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FourYou Can’t Integrate What You Don’t Know: The Role of the Scripture3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FiveChristian Worldview: The Foundation for Curriculum – Creation3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson SixChristian Worldview: The Foundation for Curriculum – The Fall of Man3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson SevenChristian Worldview: The Foundation for Curriculum – Redemption3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson EightChristian Worldview: The Foundation for Curriculum – Fulfillment3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson NineCurriculum Orientations: Traditional and Process/Mastery3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TenMove resource Curriculum Orientations: Constructivism3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson ElevenBiblical Integration Has Specific Tasks3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TwelveAssessment, Biblical Integration, and Closing Thoughts5 Activities1 Assessment
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion2 Activities1 Assessment
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Discussion Questions
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Explain, in your own words, Dr. Black’s visual of a book in the middle of two Bibles. What is she illustrating with this visual?
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Dr. Black is illustrating that everything we teach should start and end with Biblical knowledge. The Bible is not only the beginning of our knowledge, but it surrounds everything we learn. She is giving us a visual to help us remember, when planning our lessons, to make sure we are basing them off the correct thing – which would be Biblical truth.
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She is describing that the Bible needs to be the focus. It is the beginning and the end. She saying that no matter what you are teaching the foundation is the Word.
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The illustration of the scope and sequence of curriculum and the textbooks being sandwiched between the living and powerful Word of God is a wonderful visual for how we should approach everything we teach in the classroom. Rote memorization of factual information and completion of tasks or written assignments should have a purpose beyond the assessment grade, beyond the knowledge needed to pass a grade level, an exam, a course of study. There needs to be purpose and direction for the Big Picture. The goal of the education, how and why will this information help you to grow closer to the God that created you?, this should be the foundation on which all curriculum is taught. Yes, there are standards and benchmarks that need to be documented and met at certain stages of development and education, but beyond that, so much more purpose can be drawn when we bring all of it back to an eternal God with an eternal purpose for each of our lives.
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What are some techniques you have used, or currently use, to encourage a growth mindset in yourself?
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I have joined some committees within our school, going to coach a sport and joined a women’s Bible study.
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I enrolled into a Christian university, became a active member in my church, read and reflect on the Word, read apologetic books, served others, prayed, and fast.
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To grow my mindset I keep reading Christian religious books and go over the scriptures, prayers and meditations helps my body and my mind.
I try to live my life into the steps and examples of Jesus our Lord. -
Some of the techniques I use to encourage a growth mindset are: reading books and articles that deal directly with my field of study, consult experienced educators about specific areas of need, and lastly I purposely engage in reading that doesn’t relate to my area of study so that I can disengage in a meaningful way.
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I read books, specifically that will help me to raise my children in the way of the Lord. I seek the advice of my peers, and especially those who are older than me to gain wisdom, always assuming there’s something to be learned from others, especially if they have more experience than I do. I constantly watch Youtube videos of lectures on biblical matters, health matters, and world matters. Last, but certainly not least, I seek the Lord in prayer.