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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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Students are taught and have an opportunity to reflect and put the learning into practice. It may also involve putting that learning into different scenarios.
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Looking at a lesson and finding where our faith plays out. By comparing and contrasting information helps students discern what they have learned. Students learning how to interact with God’s Word.
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Processing activities are ways to revisit earlier material to encourage deeper and perhaps even different thinking. They contribute to coherence by providing another avenue for connecting a biblical worldview to the curriculum content.
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Processing activities allow students to reflect on and solidify their learning. A coherent curriculum includes time to debrief what the learner has gained throughout the time period (weeks or months), even after the particular unit is completed and the class has moved on.
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A coherent curriculum does not teach one thing in isolation and then move on without further review. Processing activities aid in building a student’s understanding of what is being presented and allows them to make the information “their own”.