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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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The Word is our foundation, the beginning of all lessons and the end of all lessons. The curriculum is the middle of the “book”
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I think the visual is a good reminder. We start and end with God’s Word for all that we do. That fact doesn’t take away from the importance of creating/following a scope and sequence that has worthwhile formative and summative assessments. The visual simply reminds us that all of those components sit on God’s Word and God’s Word has the final say.
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As Christian educators, God’s Word needs to serve as the foundation of our teaching and planning- what we need to start with and end with (when we teach, plan, set goals for learning, assess etc).
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God’s word needs to be our foundation. We need to start with the word and end with the word. I thought of it like being the bread of our learning sandwich. The Bible needs to be part of every lesson that we teach.
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Christian teachers must use biblical teachings as the foundation for their lessons. The Bible is also used as the framework upon which each subject is built. For example, we can observe many different moral dilemmas depicted in works of literature and what a Christian response would be. In mathematics, there is order and logic and certainty, following natural laws established by the God of the Bible. Standards of beauty inspire those who admire works of art, representing our creative nature given by a creative God. And like Solomon determined at the end of Ecclesiastes, to “fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.” In other words, every lesson should reinforce this biblical mandate to revere our Creator and His purpose for our lives.