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Are you a “teacher of redemption” in your classroom? Explain.
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I try my best to be a “teacher of redemption” by correcting unfavorable student behavior and offering my students a fresh start each day.
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Yes, I hope that I am a teacher of redemption. I always tell my students that God loves us no matter what and so do I. I tell them that we all make mistakes and there are consequences to those mistakes, but it’s because God wants us to learn right from wrong. He does it because he loves us so much. I give them examples of when I make mistakes and the consequences I faced. It helps them to know that adults have consequences too.
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I hope to be! I try to model del patience, forgiveness, and hope in my interactions with students. Speaking to them with love, even when there is a need to be firm and offering forgiveness so that we can move forward together.
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Biblical redemption means that Christ offered me a spiritual contractual exchange, my sin for His righteousness through the sacrifice of the cross. It by grace only, His favor extended out of love, that I am restored to a healed relationship with my Creator Father, will full rights of eternal inheritance as His child. He bought me out of slavery and I live in the freedom to choose the path of righteousness. He transformed my heart to love His will and to despise what separates me from Him. This gives me contagious joy that I can share with my students.
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Teaching redemption is to model a lifestyle of grace, forgiveness and hope. When a student rebels, I must patiently teach about humble repentance, apologizing and restoration of the relationship through forgiveness. It is wrong to hold a grudge, to shame and punish him out of revenge. That restoration brings hope for a positive relationship going forward and academic renewal. The student knows that the past mistakes do not doom his future standing.
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Yes, I feel I am a “teacher of redemption” as my main goal with all discipline is to point the child to the fact that we are living in a fallen world but that God sent Jesus to redeem us and help us to become more like Him. Every moment is a teachable moment and a way to direct their hearts back to the Lord.