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Explain, in your own words, what “processing activities” are and how they contribute to a coherent curriculum.
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Processing activities allow students to come back to concepts for further consideration. These concepts could be from previous weeks.
They help with a coherent curriculum especially when they are related to biblical integration. If we are seeking to integrate the biblical concepts into all courses, we can bring up a biblical response to a concept such as the origin of life in a science course.
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”Processing activities”, to me is like the parables of the talent in Matthew 25:14-30. The students are given according to their ability with the hope that when i revisit that topic, they should be able to produce with interest.
also, when planning my curriculum, I should consider the ability of each students for it may work or not. -
Processing activities allow students to process what they have learned and apply it in real world application. For instance in my Bible courses I will occasionally walk into course and simply state “today I’m an atheist” or “today I’m a refugee” share the Gospel with me. Students then have the opportunity to take what we have been learning and apply it to the scenario I give them.
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We live in a fast-paced world that tells us, get it done…get it done…get it done. We are not very good at being still and listening to and soaking in God’s words. Processing activities allow us to do just this. We can go back to a lesson we taught in the fall and see 1. do our students really get what we were teaching and 2. are they putting what they learned into practice. In the fall they may not understand why they need to know what we are teaching them. They might think we are just trying to torture them. 🙂 Then later in the year we can say, remember when we learned so and so, this is why you needed to know it. Now we are going to expand on it even more.
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The idea of “processing activities” is to review the key concepts or Biblical concepts taught throughout a given period of time/section of curriculum and learn how much the students has not grasped the teaching but integrated it into their lives/faith.
