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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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I believe she illustrates how everything we do and know as educators need to be surrounded by the scripture.
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We must begin with God’s word and end with God’s word. In the middle are the goals and objectives, the outcomes, the scope and sequence (basically the material we as educators need to use to teach). All of the material needs to be surrounded by God’s word.
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The aim of the illustration is to remind us that our teaching curriculum must be rooted and surrounded by God’s word. Basically, every learning activity must have a Biblical integration in it.
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In my opinion, the word of God should be at the beginning and at the end of our teaching/learning at all times.
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It is an object lesson, a visual of how the Bible must inform and influence everything we do. The setting is in education, but we know we could put any objects between the Bibles to symbolize that everything we do in life must be formed by Scripture in order to be biblical. Even in teaching subjects like math we must have a Christian worldview to see God originated order and numbers for us to discover the world around us.