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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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Dr. Black is illustrating that everything we teach should start and end with Biblical knowledge. The Bible is not only the beginning of our knowledge, but it surrounds everything we learn. She is giving us a visual to help us remember, when planning our lessons, to make sure we are basing them off the correct thing – which would be Biblical truth.
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She is describing that the Bible needs to be the focus. It is the beginning and the end. She saying that no matter what you are teaching the foundation is the Word.
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The illustration of the scope and sequence of curriculum and the textbooks being sandwiched between the living and powerful Word of God is a wonderful visual for how we should approach everything we teach in the classroom. Rote memorization of factual information and completion of tasks or written assignments should have a purpose beyond the assessment grade, beyond the knowledge needed to pass a grade level, an exam, a course of study. There needs to be purpose and direction for the Big Picture. The goal of the education, how and why will this information help you to grow closer to the God that created you?, this should be the foundation on which all curriculum is taught. Yes, there are standards and benchmarks that need to be documented and met at certain stages of development and education, but beyond that, so much more purpose can be drawn when we bring all of it back to an eternal God with an eternal purpose for each of our lives.