5 of 5 Philosophy of education shaped by the Biblical worldview

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how do you

know uh what's good and what's bad do

they have the right

answer um and they start thinking about

that and they have to say why they think

it's that way and then you can talk

about the consequences you know if you

um pick the wrong flavor of ice cream it

won't be really

important but if you decide to um uh

have sex before marriage like many of

the movies say is really

good that will have an effect for a long

time and you need to think about the

effects of these

things and then you go to the last

question is what's really the purpose

what do you what do you think uh what

you want to accomplish in your life what

what's important and he said okay and if

you use these questions you could use

them in every class every textbook every

subject and you say the all the

chemistry book says that what's good is

learning how to take the materials in

the world and make things that will help

other people okay is that a good idea

well that's what it says okay and then

you read the next thing about what's bad

well many of the the science text say

Christians are bad because they stop

people from learning about uh the world

and they they have bad ideas and so

they're the bad once and then you say

well how do you know what why do you

think that way where did you get that

information from and they start to think

and you could in literature you could

read a book uh by a Hindu author or a

Muslim author or a Buddhist author or a

Christian Author and you could start

comparing you know this one seems to say

this this one seems to say that what's

the difference why what's how do we

choose and you're giving the Holy Spirit

material that he can use to work in

their hearts because they're thinking

and they're not just blindly following

like Lemmings you know what a lemming is

they're little rat like rodent and they

always follow the leader and they the

leader walks off a cliff and the whole

herd walks after them and they don't

stop well a lot of Our Generation The

Young Generation are like blemings they

don't really think about it they just

kind of go where everybody else is going

these questions could help you do that

you can publish them on the wall I think

in any school it doesn't mention

God these are just important questions

for every

person uh to to answer now sooner or

later the students are going to say

what what are they going to

say what do you think

ah and you say oh I'm glad you asked

that question and then you tell them

right you give them the whole story

about all that God's done and said and

everything else that might not be the

best answer they may be asking what do

you think just so that you won't um

you'll get away distracted from the

lesson and doing something else and so

they really aren't interested in the

answer they're just um asking a question

but you could

say you we're reading books and watching

movies and listening to music and we ask

these questions I want you to watch me

now for the rest of the year and at the

end of the year I want you to tell me

what I believe because you watched me

you've seen the things I said and the

things I did and everything else not now

you can tell me what I

believe or if it looks like the

situation is right you that's a good

question but you know right now we're

not studying what I believe we're

studying this textbook or this um story

or this history lesson if you would like

to know more we could talk about that

after school and you say okay we can we

can do that you can look for

opportunities now to share the answers

with them we don't have to tell them all

the answers today and if you say well I

didn't tell anybody about Jesus today

Jesus isn't going to say too bad bad

teacher um you have you know you didn't

tell anybody about Jesus today you're

getting his the people in his world to

think about what's important to him and

uh you're helping them to grow and

develop and giving the Holy Spirit

material to work with and that that can

be really important so those are some

big questions that you could do and you

could put that visual valet up on the

wall nothing else and just say well

let's remember this is about what's good

and and what isn't and how do we choose

and what's the consequences and what's

the purpose and we'll just talk about

this regularly you know as we move from

one thing to another this is just a

regular occurrence it's not a big deal

but it will be laying sewing seeds in

the students life well since those uh

pictures or this uh thing I came up with

some new questions uh these are bored

ones but here's

some what is good that I can cultivate

you know we we're studying about

different things in God's world and some

of the things we see are are good and we

say oh you know we could cultivate that

we we could do more of that that would

be really helpful or we could say um

what's missing what can I create that

that you know isn't here that that is

needed and so we look around our our

community and everything else and say Bo

you know we really need something with

students to develop their bodies and

maybe we decid we're going to do some

sports or something we're going to

create something because that's a need

that uh we need to uh create or with

What's um bad what's evil that I can

curb you know if you see bad things you

don't want to just let them go and

ignore them and if you see people doing

bad things and whatever you say well how

could I work to to to prevent that you

can't change people's heart right

outside and and you can't U without

knowing Jesus they're not going to be uh

New Creations from the inside out but we

can do things to prevent them from the

the evil things that they do from having

a a terrible effect on everyone else and

so we can work on that and then another

question we can ask is what's

broken that I can cure so you might have

a good thing and he say yeah but it's

not really being used the way it should

what can we do to cure what's wrong so

there's four C's now I don't know what

they are in Nepali probably uh you know

completely different but in English it

happens to work nice with those four

words but these are again words that

don't

necessarily talk about God but they

direct attention to the kinds of things

that God's interested in because if you

go back to this picture again curbing

what's that what remind us of what God

does about Sin yeah we want to curb sin

you know that that's

important um what about um

cultivate

what about

fulfillment okay we we God's given us a

world and he wants us to make something

good out of it and so we're going to

take what he's given us and we're going

to develop it and make something more

that will be helpful for others and then

we have cure where does that

go yeah Redemption that's what Jesus did

when he came to the world that was all

mess up and terrible he worked to take

care of the problem of sin and if we're

Made In His Image and we're his

followers we're called to do the same

kind of thing and finally create

something maybe brand new that nobody

ever even thought

about well that would seem to fit very

nicely with uh creation so we can ask

these questions there's four questions

no God talk but ones that are important

questions that we could be thinking

about every time we have a class and

we're going going through it

okay now four is four is not bad most of

you can remember four

right but um I have three questions you

say but four is kind of much you know

I'm not sure I can handle

that three is better okay three

questions for everything we

teach how does this help us worship

God okay

Ah that's a good question and we can use

that in the Christian School maybe the

other ones we couldn't we uh wouldn't be

able to use in a public school but in a

Christian School for sure we can ask how

does this help us to worship God and

then how does this help us to love

others Jesus said we're supposed to love

God and love our neighbors and so what

we're studying if it doesn't help us

love God and doesn't help us to love

others what are we doing it

for okay well that's a really a been a

hard problem to ask and then there was a

third

question how does this help us Steward

or take care of what God has given

us he's given us individually gifts and

you remember the fellow that the story

Jesus told about the one that gave gifts

to different people and he says you're

supposed to take care of it and de

develop it cultivate it and uh so how

does this help us what I'm learning here

how is this going to help me take care

of God's world and my personal gifts

that God's given me so there's three

questions so if you don't if four is too

much you can go with three and um then

we have so we have the the big question

guide with these uh questions in it but

our goal ultimately is that God's word

will shape our study of God's world

and uh it doesn't have to be super

complicated you know we're always

looking for something oh you know if I

knew all of this then I'd be able to no

start off with a few simple questions

that you can use uh and you start asking

them the students start answering them

you start answering them and this in

this process we're going to have a A

Renewed world view it's going to get

closer and closer to what God's shown us

about his

world

okay I have um 80 more slides in this

thing but we're going to stop this

one I'm sorry uh time's limited right

and uh okay we're going to go back to

the

um the first thing that we start talking

about which was our philosophy of

education we said the word

five parts do you remember what the

parts

are the purpose first one what was

next the learner

then teacher then the process and

content okay we've kind of jumped to the

content part because I didn't want to

miss that out because that's really

important okay but I think there's some

really important things that um we need

to consider about the other parts of

this story and so we're going to just uh

run through some of these really

quickly

okay wish I had more

time um we're going to talk first of all

about the student okay here's

one and start first thing remember is

students are made in God's

image now you say I know that

right how many how many have not heard

that oh everybody knows that

okay well what's the implication of that

CS Lewis wrote something that's

challenged me it says it's a serious

thing to live in a society of possible

gods and

goddesses to remember the the dullest

most uninteresting person you can talk

to May one day be a creature which if

you saw it now you'd be strongly tempted

to

worship or else a horror and a

corruption such as you now meet if at

all on the a

nightmare remember we said everyone

lives forever and we're either going in

one direction or the other now he said

he went on

all day long we're in some degree

helping each other to one or the other

of these

destinations it is the light of in light

of this overwhelming possibilities is

with awe and the circumspection proper

to them that we should conduct all of

our dealings with one another all

friendships all loves all play all

politics yeah even politics yeah

okay there's another one There Are No

Ordinary

People you have never Tau to a mere

mortal Nations cultures Arts

civilizations these are mortal and their

life is to ours as a life of a gat but

it is Immortals whom we joke with work

with marry snub and exploit Immortal

Horrors are Everlasting

splendors

when that kid in the back of the class

is making trouble and is a problem and

doesn't want to learn and it all he you

know it's just a pain

remember he is an immortal person and

you can either move him towards God's

vision for

him or away from

it um God challenged me about some of

this when I um

was walking down in our the streets of

our city in our city there's a lot of

homeless people and you know everything

looks pretty nice you walk through the

city and it's pretty nice except when

you walk down the street you find people

uh sleeping on the sidewalk in

stairwells and they have a little tent

on every little bit of grass and and

stuff like that and I found my heart

saying God doesn't love them as much as

he loves

me but I had to remember God loves that

person as much as he loves

me I have the privilege of knowing god Y

and he doesn't but he still loves them

and if I don't help him to know God's

love I've got a problem and just because

he's sleeping on the sidewalk or in you

know in in a little tent beside the road

or something like that does not mean

that God doesn't care for him that's

true but all the students in class

whether they're bright ones or dull ones

you know it just don't seem to want to

learn um because God's made them all

unique now I wish we could spend a great

deal of time talking about this but one

question you want you to think about how

are students

different I believe there's two students

in your class or two people that whose

lives you touch that are the same I me

some be similar some different I want

you to just talk the person next to you

and see if you can quickly write down as

many ways as you can think of about how

students are

different okay I'll give you the first

one there's boys and girls okay what

else if you how many have five things on

their

list okay how many had 10

okay well I stopped because I heard the

the you know people weren't talking

anymore it didn't seem like they had any

new ideas so but let's see a few what

your list looks compared to mine student

differences their gender there's boys

and there's girl that makes a difference

and the world's telling us it doesn't

make a difference but it's not true God

made them male and female okay cultures

there are different cultures in your

classroom some people um their families

come from from the country some from the

city some from a tribal group some from

High Castle you know there's all kinds

of cultural differences that's important

uh the

maturity uh some are more mature than

others and uh their personalities are

different their spiritual gifts are

different their size is

different you said well that's not

really so important well I had have two

sons My First Son uh is now the same

height as I am a little bit more but

that only happened when he was about 16

17 before that happened before that he

was always

short his younger

brother was always tall he's about this

much taller than I am and that's been

true since grade one so if you see a

picture of his grade one class there's

all the other kids and then there's him

and then there's the rest of the

class we said well that doesn't make any

difference oh yeah it

does one of the illustrations we were

coming up flying on the airplane in the

old days they gave little toys to Little

Children You know to play with to keep

quiet and stuff and the stewards came

along and said to my younger son give

this toy to your younger brother

and they didn't give him any at all

because he was a big kid right so he

didn't need a toy and his brother needed

one it took a long time for him to get

over that particular site because the

size didn't make it made a difference um

strength makes a difference this for me

was one of the problems my father was

one of the strongest men that I know he

could do unbelievable kinds of

things um but my mother was a petite

English woman and so when we divided up

characteristics among the children I

took after my

mother my sister who was a year younger

took after my

father and she was stronger than I was

all the time and I didn't like that

particularly

that my sister was Stronger our strength

really makes a difference especially

with younger children when physical

attributes are uh very Central to who

they are and how they see themselves in

the world um another one we'll just say

a wee bit about this multiple

intelligences everyone God didn't make

everyone smart the same

way in school we have certain things

that we think are really important and

if they if our students have that kind

of intelligence we say this is a good

student if they

don't you say it's a bad

student learning styles this is also

another one that's

important spiritual life is this

person a child of God or not if he's a

child of God he has the Holy Spirit

living within him to help him if he

doesn't the Bible use all kinds of ways

of describing he say he's the the child

of the Devil he's blind he's dead he

can't understand spiritual things and

you can stand in front of the class and

do a wonderful lesson and he won't get

any of it because he's not alive dead

people don't you know understand the

lessons very well you can preach in a

funeral home but it doesn't make much

difference now I didn't put on cast but

there's all kinds differences that you

could think about now I'm just really

going to roll through the multiple

intelligences because um uh this there's

a little book about eight great

smarts and um they talked about these

ones and U there's The Logical

mathematical there's the verbal and

linguistic and then there's musical

bodly kinesthetic naturalist visual

spatial

interpersonal um and inra personal now

you could another way of describing them

there's the logic smart

people now we like those in our classes

you know they they think well that's

good uh then we have the word smart

people and we like those right because

we work with words and and stuff so

they're really good and then there is

the picture smart

people the guy spending all this time on

the phone looking at

pictures

maybe or he's doodling on paper all the

time you know you don't take proper

notes all you do is draw

pictures because that's the way God made

them the kind of smart he gave that

person uh then there's body smarts these

are people that can do amazing things

with their body I have almost zero body

smarts but what who are they in your

classroom well they're the kid that's

running around the back and you always

tell me sit down and why don't you

behave yourself and they bounc and and

all over the place

because they they think with

movement now we had had our Second Son

Not only was bigger and that raised

expectations they were expected he's big

so he's going to be very mature and

everything else but uh our first son was

really bright lots of logic smart lots

of words smarts and he learned computers

and he wonderful student in the

school and we're trying to get his SEC

his brother ready for school so we said

we think it'd be really helpful if you

could spell your name and his name is

Martin m

a t y n because we spell it you kind of

funny and so we would say okay can you

say those words or letters m a and he'd

repeat m a r okay t y y

n t

YN okay very good son now can you say it

all together m a t y

n

m

n

why completely unable to to repeat six

letters you

know we thought oh no this son is never

going to uh survive in school and sure

enough he went to grade one and the

teacher was very kind and very

accommodating and at the end of the year

he put him in grade

two and the grade two teacher came to us

and said your son isn't ready for grade

two he can't read he can't you know he's

not ready for grade

two so we got a hel her to help him uh

it was an older lady grandmother that

came in and she helped him with a stuff

and he he really hated it cuz he had to

leave his class and go and spent time

with this old lady who was helping him

but it really did make a difference and

the next year he had a different teacher

and the different

teacher loved to do things

outside and they went out and they

looked at the rocks and the trees and

the leaves and all the things outside

because that teacher was nature

smart and our son thought this is good

because turns out he's pretty nature

smart and all of a sudden the teacher

was doing things that he enjoyed and he

could uh excel at and uh he fact got so

good he decided he was nevertheless

going to be the top of his class in with

words and numbers as well and by the end

of his school when he finished grade 12

he was the top of his

class and he's the only member of our

family that has a

doctorate in biomed physics

and he failed grade

one and he should have failed grade to

if he hadn't got specific help with the

problems that he had because it turns

out he mixes up letters and numbers and

everything else and he has a real

difficult time his mom had to help him

with his thesis to to because he mix up

the words and it wouldn't make sense and

so she helped him um she didn't know

what he was talking about but she could

tell that those two words in the wrong

place so she help him get this thing

sorted out well we did discover one

thing about him uh when he was back in

grade one he was went to a little Club

after school where they learned Bible

verses and he couldn't you know he can't

say six letters so how is he going to

learn a Bible verse well this was really

impossible but we had a little

trampoline I don't know if you see do

you know what a trampoline is little

round thing with springs and then you

jump on it and you bounce on it we had a

little one like that and we discovered

that if he was bouncing on the

trampoline he could memorize Bible

verses because you see he was really

body smart you know how he connected

with his body was really important yeah

it was

that that was exactly how he learned his

Bible verses bouncing on a trampoline

well you know in most classrooms you say

sit down and don't move around quiet and

yet that was exactly what he needed

because God had wired him differently

than his older

brother and so it goes some people are

people smart they just get along with

people very well well who are those in

your

classroom the ones that are always

talking they got a group of people

around them and they got a discussion

going they have this saying what are you

guys talking about you know you're not

listening to me and they're they're

doing something and there's always a

ring leader there somebody with people

smarts that just attracts people to

themselves and then other people are

selfs smart you ask them about um you

know how do they feel you know did you

enjoy your summer

holidays and they'll think and they'll

come up with an answer and they'll be

able to tell you why because they know

they're conscious of how they think some

are music smart and I have a grandson

that's exceedingly music

smart incredible picture smart God makes

us

different and yet in our classrooms how

often do we give exactly the same work

to every student and say we're being

fair because we gave the same assignment

we marked it the same way and they are

different people because God made them

differently now we had another one I

just mention this I get really so the

question is not how intelligent are your

students but how are your students

intelligent and what you need to know is

how you're

smart that's right what gifts did God

give you and if you can't tell anybody

else what you're really doing is

insulting the one that made you because

he made you he gave you his gifts and if

you don't know what they are you can't

develop them you can't use them in ways

that will draw attention to his goodness

and his

uh greatness you need to know how you're

intelligent and you need to think about

those things so I wish we could spend

more time on that but that's one now

there's another thing that's really

important and that is what we call

learning styles we have four children

two boys and two girls we have one of

each

um some people are very

abstract some people are very concrete

some are sequential and some are random

well just to help explain what that

means um some people spend all their

time with

ideas other people spend their time with

things let just you know give them a

choice some will work with ideas and

some will work with things abstract and

concrete now sequential and

random I don't know if you still

remember the old days when they had um

cassette tapes for information in the

computer it was a long time ago maybe

you've completely forgotten about that

but yeah or VHS tapes and for your TV

and stuff now if you start you have to

start at the beginning and go all the

way to the part that you want you can't

just start wherever you want yeah it

it's in sequence and so you have to go

through one and the other and the next

and the next and the next to get to the

end um other things like a CD ROM or a

DVD Is Random so you can pick out I want

this song or I want this part of the

movie and I want to start here and you

can go anywhere you want and do it now

people are like that that as well some

people everything has to be orderly in a

row and other people are random you know

it doesn't matter they're just kind of

wherever no it doesn't mean that uh they

can't find any thing it just means that

uh actually it's rather amazing you walk

into their room and say Where's that

your homework and it looks like a

tornado had gone through their

bedroom but they said well it's right

here because they're random they can

pick it out of of the the whole thing

now we have like I said four

children um one of each we have two sons

that are computer

programmers

what would that what do you think they

would

be sequal

sequential you know and a computer

computer can't just kind of jump all

over they need you have to tell them

this and then you do this and then you

do this so we have two sons that are

sequential we have two

daughters that are random and if you go

into their house it makes my wife just

kind of oh didn't I teach him anything

about how to take care of their house

because

clothes all over and dishes here and

everything because they're random

people okay so that's two boys two girls

now what's the difference between idea

person and thing

person well it turns out one of the boys

and one of the girls are concerned about

things and the other two are concerned

about

ideas one of our

daughters um has a degree in in

philosophy the other one has a never

gone to University but she just loves to

make

stuff she just I mean she can take a

piece of wood and make it into something

interesting a bit of clay and make it is

that's the way she is the one with the

Philosophy degree which one is

she

abstract the the world of ideas that's

her

thing the other conrete you know put put

something in her hands and she can make

it it's amazing what she can make now

with the guys it's a little different

the one they're both computer

programmers right but this

one um you go into his

room and it looks a lot like his

sister's room it's kind of all piles of

stuff over there and Mom's always saying

um you know if you go away for a day or

two I could help you and clean up your

room um because it's that sort of a way

the other guy wow uh he makes uh he

makes kayaks and uh with pumping systems

so he can ride out in the lakes and and

do all kinds of things he is very

concrete different people different ways

of

learning this is the one the concrete

sequential that has his

doctorate

this one has a Bible degree this one has

a a bachelor's degree in philosophy and

Kinesiology this one has Bible

degree they're all were at the top of

the class in school they all had

intelligence but there was different

ways of

learning and uh you might want to think

about how that uh will play out in your

classroom so I want to just mention a

few differences are God's

idea they you don't choose how you are

God made them different because he

wanted them to be different and they're

all created in the image of God they all

have strengths and they all have

weaknesses all do what's

wrong and all need God's help to do

what's right that's true about

everybody

so just a couple questions for

teachers are all the students successful

in your

class

why are some

unsuccessful what can you do to help all

the

students be

successful

okay wish I could talk more we could

spend um hours on that I do want to um

just underline one thing remember their

greatest strength is potentially their

greatest

weakness yeah because our strengths we

tend to think we don't need God now and

we start doing things in our own

strength to attract attention to how

good and great we are which Bible says

is evil not good and so it's a real

problem and so you have a student that

is causing problems all the time that

may be a clue for you about his

strengths not his

weaknesses that they're not being used

in ways that will honor

God okay so but I want to say a couple

other things God's word for everyone The

Man Without The Spirit the spirit of God

does not accept the things that come

from the spirit of God they're

foolishness to him and he cannot

understand them because they're

spiritually deserved it doesn't matter

how good you are as a teacher you can't

make a Lost Sinner into a child of God

by teaching them right you can have the

most interesting lessons you can uh do

everything that you want right but until

they become a child of God they're not

really going to

understand now other words God's word

for everyone all have sinned and fall

short of the glory of God the good

students in your

class and the poor students in your

class the ones that you're always saying

oh isn't that wonderful why doesn't

everybody like him because they always

you know he's getting right good marks

on the stage now he's a sinner too just

like the rest of the people in the class

now give you this little

diagram

um there is a

line between people that are lost and

that are

found people that are dead the Bible

says in trespasses and sin and those

that are alive to

God another way it talks about it is

they're part of the kingdom of darkness

or the Kingdom of

Light now we're anxious for people to be

going over here

right but to get over

here they have to

start over

here and we have to help them move in

this direction and eventually comes the

time when they ask Christ to be their

savior they they are born again by the

spirit and all of a sudden everything's

new and then they go on

here now I discovered that most of us

want to be at the delivery

room when my children were born I had

the privilege of being there to watch

them born and that's an amazing thing to

see something that my wife and I had a

part with God in making this

person and that that's wonderful and we

want to be see people move from Death to

life we want new birth but we all we

spent a lot of time thinking about being

at the delivery

room but the people that are bringing

them to the place of decision and those

that will take care of them afterwards

are all part of the discipl making

process not just the people at the

delivery room even though that's really

important you know when we went to the

delivery room we were real anxious there

were nurses and doctors and facilities

and everything was going to be good for

that that that's really important

but before and after is critical as well

so I'm going ask question do you know

your students do you know where they're

from do you know where they are

now uh do you know where they're

going culturally spiritually

academically socially have you thought

about your children because they're made

in God's image they're either going to

become an immortal Splendor or a

horror and we need to know where they're

at and be so that we can help them move

in the right

direction

okay how many minutes do I have four

okay we're really going to go fast going

to talk about the

teacher guess

what your greatest strength is

potentially your greatest

weakness because you think you can do it

you don't need God so just like this

children differences are God's idea

teachers are all created in the image of

God teachers all have strengths they all

have weaknesses they all do what's wrong

and they need God's help to do what is

right now we said back in the first day

God's word about teachers students are

not greater than their teacher but the

student who's fully trained will become

like the

teacher boy that's an um a serious verse

he also another one not many of you

should presume to be teachers my

brothers because you know that we who

teach will be judged more

strictly as teachers we have an

opportunity to influence many

children not just her own two or three

or four in our case but many and so

there's a huge responsibility in that

don't just become a teacher because it's

a good

job uh you become a teacher because

God's called you to be part of that and

God's word about teachers is really

serious one if anyone causes one of

these little ones who believe in me to

sin it would be better for him to have a

huge Millstone hung around his neck and

to be drowned in the depths of the

sea this is

serious okay we won't spend much time on

teacher differences they're all the same

you know we come in in different

different ways you know and they're

they're all there and we have different

learning styles in spiritual life and

all of that stuff is there I I I'd like

to just show you a little diagram about

three kinds of teachers that I found I I

discovered there's sort of three parts

of Education there's the part of

Education I call training there's

another part that has to do with um

instruction which had the first has to

do with behavior the second has to do

with

um knowledge and then the third part

nurture has to do with

relationships now when you think about

those three

things what do you think would be the

best I'd love to be here right

yeah instruction training nurture some

of all you there's some of each right

well I discovered that people that are

really good with training and about

Behavior they have a tendency to be

legalists right because what you do is

really really important because that's

the kind of people God made them to

be um if you are really one that is very

concerned about knowledge what might

your problem be

academic academics yeah what is this sin

associated with it oh

okay pardon

me I put this one down pride pride oh we

you come to me I can tell you the answer

you say I I'm really good at that kind

of

stuff and then there's the people that

are nurturing and worried about

relationships now they don't have any

problems do they

they

do there can be a real sense of

selfishness because they want other

people to tell them how good they are

you know and I just really love you

teacher and they want to have this warm

relationship with them because that's

what they and it's really an expression

of selfishness not really the care for

the students but care for myself

now these things move us away from the

image of God which is there in the

center the cross wants to bring us back

to the center and so the Holy Spirit

comes and indwells us and he takes the

image of God and he begins to work on

our interest in behavior and he wants to

uh the one that's worried about

knowledge he's helping us with knowledge

and he's also helping us

with oh that one the last bit didn't

come God wants to pull all of these

possibilities together and that's one of

the reasons we need each other because

we don't all approach our relationship

to students the same way now the people

down here may be saying about the

teacher that's always worried about

marks and academics and they say you

don't care about the kids all he's

worried about is the test you know

or and this one says all they want to do

is have fun with the kids and stuff and

they don't really care about learning

real stuff and this one over here

they're they're always concerned about

what everybody's doing and they're going

along trying to be policemen for

everybody to make sure everybody does

what's right in the school sometimes

they make them the vice principal

because that seems to be the job that

Vice principls often get is making sure

everybody does what's good in the school

I hope you're not a vice principal um

but um

we need all the kinds of people we need

to learn from all the other kinds of

people in our that God has made and put

us together with in our school and

appreciate their

strengths and their weaknesses aware of

our own strengths and our own weaknesses

okay so the question is do you know

yourself where are you from where are

you

now where are you

going

culturally spiritually academically

socially hypocrite first get rid of the

log in your own eye and you'll see well

enough to deal with the speck in your

students

eye last one because it's you have to

get the

five how we teach is the truest

indicator of what we believe about who

we're teaching and who we

are not what we say but what we actually

do do we create are we interested in

creators or

copiers you know people could be like

photocopiers we tell them what and then

they tell us exactly what we told them

it's a photocopy who does that or are

they creators are they thinkers are they

speaking or

listening I have a hard time with that

one I I much rather sometimes do the

talking then rather than the

listening um are they about thinking or

remembering

you know if all the questions that we

ever ask in our assessments are about

remembering that some people are very

good at it other people aren't so good

but we want all of them to become

thinkers and we need flexibility in the

assignments to be able to accomplish

what uh handle different kinds of

people uh Once Upon a Time the animals

decided they must do something heroic to

meet the problems of a new world so they

organized a school

they had adopted an activity curriculum

consisting of running climbing swimming

and flying to make it easier to

administer the curriculum all the

animals took all the subjects the duck

was excellent in swimming in fact better

than his instructor but he made only

passing grades in flying and was very

poor in running since he was slow and

running he had to stay after school and

also dropped swimming in order to

practice

running this was kept up until his web

feet were badly worn and he was only

average in

swimming but average was acceptable in

school so nobody worried about that

except the

duck the rabbit started at the top of

the class in running but had a nervous

breakdown because of so much makeup work

in

swimming the squirrel was excellent

climbing until he developed frustration

in the flying class where his teacher

made him start start from the ground up

instead of the treetop down and he also

developed a charlie horse from

overexertion then got a sea in climbing

and a D in

running the eagle was a problem child

and was disciplined severely in the

climbing class he beat all the others to

the top of the tree but insisted on

using his own way to get

there I hope your school isn't like the

animal School

God

has given us his time together and I

hope that some of this has been helpful

for you one thing about the what I just

going to say this really quickly the

explicit curriculum is what the book

says we're supposed to teach okay we

spent a lot of time thinking about that

often I hope you do uh then there is the

part of the curriculum that is implicit

it's the stuff that we don't talk about

but we expect people to know like you

stand up when the teacher comes in and

or you stand up when you're going to

answer a question or you know there's

all kinds of things that we just don't

necessarily talk about but it's just

kind of part of you know being a good

student then there's the null curriculum

and this is a really important one this

the stuff we don't teach and that's an

opportunity that Christians have when

you're using a public National

curriculum you don't have to cover

everything on every page nobody does not

in the public schools and certainly not

in the private one you can choose

judiciously which parts you're going to

leave out and that'll make a difference

because you instead of emphasizing

things you don't want you just ignore

them they kind of go away but there's

the living

curriculum and that's

you you are the one that students are

going to learn from because students

when they're fully trained

will

be like their teacher so you're the

curriculum and you get an opportunity to

uh shape their lives and then there's

the question of what do they

receive sometimes you don't see what we

think we should God doesn't call us to

to tell to judge us on what they receive

he judges us on being

faithful and then it's his job to do the

work in this students lives and that's

all we have time for folks

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