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Can you see Dr. MacCullough’s guiding questions being valuable to you in creating biblically integrated units/lessons? How do you envision implementing them in your planning process?
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They are very much worldview points. I design my curriculum around these already.
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Yes, definitely as it will provide guidance to students and enabled them to compare and contrast between what the world believes in vs what the Bible said, although it can be quite difficult to do so. It’s definitely something that needs to be intentionally inserted into the lesson plan and carefully planned on.
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These are current issues people are struggling with. We need to equipt the students how to find these answers for themselves.
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James Sire’s worldview questions will be a great help and value in creating lessons. Dr. MacCullough has drawn on Mr. Sire’s information very heavily and rightfully so because these are the foundational questions to every worldview. I think it will be very helpful for educators to make sure they are using these.
I will have these questions on a 3×5 card with me when I am planning and consistently go back to them. I want to always be thinking about how my lessons will develop a Christian worldview in my students.
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In teaching science I like to invite the concept that humans are aware of about 5% of the natural universe. Science is the exploration of God’s creation. Science is man’s interpretation of God’s creation. Our middle school biblical integration standards call for us to explore various world views on creation, the three Christian ones (Theistic Evolution, Old Earth, and Young Earth) and the most popular secular one (Big Bang + Evolution). I appreciate that students get to wrestle with these ideas as they embrace their faith.